Free Jimmy
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| Directed by | Christopher Nielsen |
| Written by | Christopher Nielsen |
| Produced by | Håkon Gundersen Lars Andreas Hellebust |
| Starring | English Version Woody Harrelson Simon Pegg Phil Daniels Jay Simpson Emilia Fox Samantha Morton James Cosmo David Tennant Jim Broadbent Kyle MacLachlan |
| Edited by | Alastair Reid |
| Music by | Simon Boswell |
Production company | StormStudio |
| Distributed by | Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (Norway) Breakthru Films (United Kingdom) |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Countries | Norway United Kingdom |
| Languages | English Norwegian |
Free Jimmy (No: Slipp Jimmy fri) is a 2006 adult animated black comedy film. written and directed by comic book artist Christopher Nielsen and features a number of characters from Nielsen's comics. The plot centers around a group of individuals from different countries trying to find a wayward and drug-addicted elephant in the Norwegian wilderness before the others do.
The film is dedicated to Joachim Nielsen (1964–2000), the director's brother and a rock musician famous in his native Norway, who had died of a drug overdose after quitting them successfully for many years. Whilst well received in its native country, reception to Free Jimmy has been generally negative in the English-speaking world.