Production Company: Pixar / Walt Disney Pictures Producer: Darla K. Anderson Executive Producers:  John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton Screenwriters: Andrew Stanton, Daniel Gerson Directors: Peter Docter, David Silverman Release Date: November 2nd, 2001 Cast:

Mike Wzowski: Billy Cristal James P. Sullivan: John Goodman Randall Boggs: Steve Buscemi Henry J. Waternoose: James Coburn Boo: Mary Gibbs Celia: Jennifer Tilly

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Monsters, Inc is a comedy set in a surreal realm, where chaos ensues after a hapless monster lets a human child into the secret world by mistake.
Pete Docter (Oscar nomination for the Toy Story screenplay), and David Silverman (Emmy Award-winning supervising director on The Simpsons, who was going to direct The Road to El Dorado before joining Pixar), direct the movie.
Although the final title is Monsters, Inc., it was referred to as "Hidden City" by everyone because it was being developed at the building across Pixar's main building, and takes that name from the Hidden City Cafe in Point Richmond, where the directors love to order their dinners from when working late.