1984 / 91mins / USA / Columbia
Extras: trailer
Subtitles: Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English HoH, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish & Turkish
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Picture Format: Anamorphic
TV System: PAL
Soundtrack(s):
English Dolby Digital 5.1
English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
French Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
German Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
Case type: Keep Case
Region 4
The Muppets Take Manhattan is a 1984 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Frank Oz and the third theatrical film featuring the Muppets. The film stars Muppet performers Jim Henson, Oz, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Richard Hunt, Jerry Nelson, as well as special appearances by Art Carney, James Coco, Dabney Coleman, Gregory Hines, Linda Lavin, Liza Minnelli, Joan Rivers, and Brooke Shields. Filmed in New York City during the prior summer, it was released theatrically on July 13, 1984, by TriStar Pictures. A fantasy sequence in the film introduced the Muppet Babies characters.
Muppets Take Manhattan was the first film to be directed solely by Oz, who previously co-directed The Dark Crystal with Henson. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics with praise for its puppetry, humor, songs and characters but criticism for some of its writing. The film was a box office success, grossing $25.5 million on a budget of $8 million.