Alas, an extra jolt of electricity sends the machine rocketing past Sam (Anna Faris), a cute weather forecaster on her very first broadcast, and into the stratosphere before Flint can figure out whether it actually works. Still, his latest invention - a machine that turns water into food - seems to have possibilities, even if Flint's unibrowed dad (James Caan) can't see them. About the author (1978) Judi Barrett is the author of many beloved books for children, including the bestselling Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Pickles to Pittsburgh, Animals Should. Your contribution will help us to provide free books and literacy resources to children across the nation. The Barretts met at the Pratt Institute in the 1960s. well, rat-birds just aren't a very good idea. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is one of several childrens books Barrett wrote that were illustrated by her ex-husband, Ron Barrett. By the time he was in his teens, he'd come up with a monkey thought-translator for his pet monkey, Steve (Neil Patrick Harris), which would've proved more useful if monkeys had more complicated thoughts. TIM’S HOUSE - CONTINUOUS Flint enters through the back door. When Flint (voiced by a very funny Bill Hader) was an adolescent, he invented lots of things that didn't work quite the way he'd hoped: spray-on shoes that he couldn't take off, or a remote-controlled TV with legs that came to you when you wanted to change the channel, except that it often wandered out the door instead. Based on the childrens book Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi and Ron Barrett Sony Pictures Animation 9050 Washington Blvd.

But it turns out, in a 3-D film that's more or less an animated 'origins' story, that a teen inventor named Flint Lockwood is responsible. Wondering how the town of Swallow Falls got to be a place where it rains soup and snows mashed potatoes? Well, Judi and Ron Barrett didn't tell you in their 1978 children's book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.

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