Follow That Bird

Genre: Family

Worldwide gross$14.0M

Eccentric and lovable Big Bird lives a very carefree life with his friends on Sesame Street. But his happiness is cut short when a strict social worker named Miss Finch sends him away to live with a wacky family of Dodos. After a long week and feeling homesick, he decides that he has had enough and sets out to get back to Sesame Street. Word gets around and he is totally unaware that his friends are in search of him. But he better watch out because both Miss Finch and the Sleaze Brothers are also after him for their own purposes.

🏆 1 nomination total

Genres

Adventure, Comedy, Family

Director

Ken Kwapis

Cast

Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz

Released

2 August 1985

Runtime

1h 28m

Certificate

G

IMDb rating

6.8 / 10

Votes

6,111

Metascore

59

Rotten Tomatoes

92%

Box office

$13,961,370

Edition

Base