Drilling Pursuit

Drilling Pursuit is a 2009 computer-animated action comedy film, produced by Starz Animation. It was directed by Roger Allers from a screenplay by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra and stars Will Smith, Jennifer Aniston, Martin Short and Sofía Vergara. Set in the 1970s, the film follows a lonely farmer Wilson Allenson, who finds the drilling industry popular over the world following Captain Rudy Gordon's successful intervention of drilling. He accidentally drills Laura Quayle's intervention and leads workers in a lengthy pursuit in an attempt to avoid Allenson's evidence.

This film was released in the United States on April 17, 2009, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Plot
Set in the 1970s, Wilson Allenson (Will Smith) is a lonely farmer with an intention to make his own interventions by drilling. He receives a mail from Captain Rudy Gordon (Martin Short) that he is hired to drill his creation in order to make his intervention. Rudy reminds Wilson to drill his own creation for the drilling competition. After practicing making his intervention by drilling, he goes to the drilling intervention competition to get a trophy. When the farmers indicate Wilson drilled a wealthy lady's intervention, he screams and takes a lady with him. Wilson learns that the intervention he drilled was Laura Quayle's (Jennifer Aniston) before fleeing from the farmers.

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Cast

 * Will Smith as Wilson Allenson
 * Jennifer Aniston as Laura Quayle
 * Martin Short as Captain Rudy Gordon
 * Sofía Vergara as Madison Wells

Production
In March 2005, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced it had begun its development on its computer-animated action comedy movie in addition to Upside Mystery. Screenwriters John Requa and Glenn Ficarra have been hired to co-write the screenplay.

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Release
Drilling Pursuit was released in the United States on April 17, 2009. It was originally scheduled to be released on May 22, 2009, but was pushed back to avoid competition with various family films such as Fox's Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian and Disney-Pixar's Up.

Home media
Drilling Pursuit was released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 28, 2009, by MGM Home Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 78% based on 163 reviews. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100 based on 27 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" of an A+ to F scale.

Box office
Drilling Pursuit has grossed $165 million in North America and $240.4 million in other territories for its worldwide total of $405.4 million.

In North America, Drilling Pursuit topped the box office with $71.2 million at its opening weekend from 4,002 theaters.