The Secret Life of Pets (2016) on Netflix
PG20161h 27mAdventureAnimationComedy
Max, a Jack Russell terrier, lives in a New York City apartment with his owner Katie. When she brings home Duke, a shaggy Newfoundland, Max loses his place as the only dog.
- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb6.5/10239,189 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes71%
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Plot summary
Max, a Jack Russell terrier, shares a New York City apartment with his owner Katie. While Katie is away, he spends time with the other pets in the building: Chloe the tabby cat, Mel the pug, Buddy the dachshund, and Sweet Pea the budgerigar. Katie adopts Duke, a shaggy Newfoundland, and Max, no longer the only dog in the home, resents him. Elsewhere in the city, in the drains beneath the streets, lives Snowball, a white rabbit who leads the Flushed Pets, a gang of animals abandoned by their owners who have turned against humans. Gidget, a white Pomeranian, is in love with Max.
Cast
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- Kiely Renaudas Molly (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Chris Renaud became involved in 2012, while still working on Despicable Me 2, when Illumination Entertainment's chief executive Chris Meledandri pitched him a film about what pets do when their caretakers are away. The team even considered making it a murder mystery before choosing something more relatable.
- The film took a record-breaking $38.5 million on its opening day, the biggest ever for an original film, and $104.4 million over the opening weekend, the largest opening ever for an original animated film, eclipsing the $90.4 million debut of Inside Out.
- Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film at $374.6 million once all expenses and revenues were counted, making it the most profitable release of 2016.
- It received the widest release ever given to an animated film and to a PG-rated film, breaking Shrek Forever After's record, opening across 4,370 theaters.
- In Argentina the film took $4 million from 195 screens, the biggest opening weekend ever there for an animated film and the second-biggest opening for any film, behind Furious 7.
