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Over the Hedge (2006)

★ 6.6 · 4,810 ratings on TMDB

Get over it.

Over the Hedge poster★ 6.6

A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating – and learns a lesson about family himself.

DirectorKarey Kirkpatrick, Tim Johnson
CastAllison Janney, Bruce Willis, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Garry Shandling, Nick Nolte
GenresAdventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
The emergence reading

In Over the Hedge, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “suburban animal frontier”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing development, property, survival, community, greed.

↷ animalsUSdevelopmentpropertysurvivalcommunitygreed
Also inFilms about survivalConsciousness hiding in animalsFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Beethoven's 5th (2003)E8/E9/E10 · community, greedIce Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)E8/E9 · community, survivalIce Age: Continental Drift (2012)E8/E9 · community, survivalIce Age: The Meltdown (2006)E8/E9 · community, survivalFantastic Mr. Fox (2009)E8/E9 · community, survivalWallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)E8/E9 · community, greed

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island (1997)E6/E7 · rare rung · community, survival

Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

Home on the Range (2004)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic farmPeter Rabbit (2018)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic countrysideThe House (2022)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic animal housingBabe: Pig in the City (1998)consciousness in animals · animal metropolisHomeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)consciousness in animals · urban animal adventureThe Secret of NIMH (1982)consciousness in animals · rodent underground

Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

Critters 3 (1991)consciousness in aliens · community, greedHerbie Rides Again (1974)consciousness in machines · community, developmentThe Borrowers (1997)consciousness carried elsewhere · property, survivalGhost Ship (2002)consciousness in the dead · greed, survivalSleepwalkers (1992)consciousness in monsters · community, survivalLeprechaun (1993)consciousness in monsters · greed, survival

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Imagine That (2009)dir. Karey KirkpatrickHome (2015)dir. Tim JohnsonAntz (1998)dir. Tim JohnsonSinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)dir. Tim JohnsonSmallfoot (2018)dir. Karey KirkpatrickMinions (2015)Allison Janney