Norm of the North

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Norm of the North is an animated children’s adventure directed by first-time feature filmmaker Trevor Wall. The film features the voices of Rob Schneider, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Colm Meaney, Loretta Devine, Gabriel Iglesias, Michael McElhatton, and Bill Nighy.

NORM the polar bear (voiced by Rob Schneider) doesn’t know how to hunt, but he does possess a rare gift: like his grandfather, who once ruled the Arctic, Norm can speak to humans. When plucky real-estate marketing director VERA (Heather Graham) shows up at the Arctic to shoot a TV commercial promoting luxury houses for her unscrupulous billionaire developer boss MR. GREENE (Ken Jeong), Norm knows he needs to do something to save his Arctic home. Emboldened by his seagull mentor SOCRATES (Bill Nighy), Norm leaves his family and stows away on a ship to the Big Apple with three tiny, mischievous — and nearly indestructible — lemmings as his loyal allies.

“I always play the guy you can laugh at and say, ‘My life’s not that great, but look at that guy!’” Schneider says. “I think in this movie, other bears look at Norm that way. No one takes him seriously, but he follows his heart and it ends up saving their home. It’s fun to play somebody who tries to achieve something big and ends up getting rewarded because he’s not doing it for himself. That’s a nice lesson for kids.”

Norm of the North is rated G.