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Inspector Gadget is a american film of genre Science fiction directed by David Kellogg released in USA on 23 july 1999 with Matthew Broderick

Inspector Gadget (1999)

Inspector Gadget
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Released in USA 23 july 1999
Length 1h19
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Science fiction,    Comedy,    Action,    Adventure,    Comic science fiction
Rating42% 2.10332.10332.10332.10332.1033

Inspector Gadget is a 1999 action-comedy film loosely based on the 1983 animated cartoon series of the same name. It starred Matthew Broderick as the title character, along with Rupert Everett as Dr. Claw, Michelle Trachtenberg as Penny, and Dabney Coleman as Chief Quimby. Two new characters were introduced, Dr. Brenda Bradford (played by Joely Fisher) and the Gadgetmobile (voiced by D. L. Hughley). The film tells the story of how Inspector Gadget and Dr. Claw came to be in the cartoon.

The film was produced by Caravan Pictures and DIC Entertainment (which was owned by The Walt Disney Company at the time of production) and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It was filmed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Los Angeles, California, with the ice castle-like main tower of Pittsburgh's PPG Place playing a central role. This was the last film produced by Caravan Pictures before it absorbed into Spyglass Entertainment. The film was followed by the 2003 direct-to-video stand-alone sequel Inspector Gadget 2.

Synopsis

John Brown is a humble, but clumsy security guard working at the Bradford robotics laboratory in Riverton, Ohio, run by Artemus Bradford and his daughter Brenda, whom Brown has a crush on. Brown wishes to become a police officer, with support from his niece Penny. Brenda and Artemus create a lifelike robotic foot as part of the Gadget Program, to create cybernetically augmented police officers. Tycoon Sanford Scolex attacks the lab, steals the foot, and has Artemus murdered before escaping in his limo. Brown goes chasing him down in his car, which leads to its being destroyed by Scolex's explosive cigar leaving brown for dead, but a bowling ball coming from the fiery blast of Brown’s destroyed car smashingly crushes Scolex's hand, forcing him to replace it with a mechanical claw.

Actors

Matthew Broderick

(John Brown / Inspector Gadget / Robo Gadget)
Mike Myers

(Inspector Gadget / Robo Gadget / John Brown)
Rupert Everett

(Sanford Scolex / Dr. Claw)
Joely Fisher

(Brenda / Robobrenda)
Michelle Trachtenberg

(Penny)
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