Catfish

2010
PG-13
1h 27m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

44K

YOUR RATING

A New York City photographer travels to rural Michigan to meet the woman of his dreams, once he's only known through the Internet.

Play trailer2:21

5 Videos

42 Photos

Science & Technology Documentary Documentary Drama Mystery Thriller

Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.Young filmmakers document their colleague's budding online friendship with a young woman and her family which leads to an unexpected series of discoveries.

Directors
- Henry Joost
- Ariel Schulman
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

44K

YOUR RATING

Directors
- Henry Joost
- Ariel Schulman
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins & 7 nominations total

Self
(as Yaniv 'Nev' Schulman)

Ariel Schulman

Self
(as Ariel 'Rel' Schulman)

Henry Joost

Self

Angela Wesselman-Pierce

Self
(as Angela Wesselman)

Melody C. Roscher

Self

Wendy Whelan

Dancer: Morphoses

Craig Hall

Dancer: Morphoses

Tiler Peck

Dancer: Morphoses

Drew Jacoby

Dancer: Morphoses

Rubi Pronk

Dancer: Morphoses

Adrian Danchig-Waring

Dancer: Morphoses

Blake Alexandros

Nando

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
As of August 2011, the film has been hit with two lawsuits and, according to Catfish distributor Relativity Media, the film has an unrecouped balance of more than $8.5 million and will not likely ever become profitable. Both of these lawsuits have to do with songs used within the movie not being attributed to their creators.

Quotes
Vince Pierce: They used to tank cod from Alaska all the way to China. They'd keep them in vats in the ship. By the time the codfish reached China, the flesh was mush and tasteless. So this guy came up with the idea that if you put these cods in these big vats, put some catfish in with them and the catfish will keep the cod agile. And there are those people who are catfish in life. And they keep you on your toes. They keep you guessing, they keep you thinking, they keep you fresh. And I thank God for the catfish because we would be droll, boring and dull if we didn't have somebody nipping at our fin.

Crazy credits
The opening logos are recorded off a computer (specifically a Mac). The Universal logo is shown as someone using Google Earth. The Relativity Media logo is shown as if it was an online video. The Rogue Pictures logo is shown as a desktop icon.

Connections
Featured in Maltin on Movies: The Town (2010)

Soundtracks
Good Vibrations
Written by Mike Love & Brian Wilson
Performed by The Langley Schools Music Project
Published by Irving Music Inc.
Courtesy of Bar/None Records
By Arrangement with Ocean Park Music Group

User reviews195

Review

Featured review

7/10

Taking something most of us have done a bit further

I remember in the very late 90's discovering the world of Yahoo chatrooms ... talking this way and that way with total strangers, sometimes being myself, sometimes lying through my teeth. Creating new usernames as a female to talk to lesbians every once in a while seemed a fun thing to do as an 18yr old lad, never succeeding to convince any to talk dirty to me. HA! The things we do.

And that is where this movie comes in. Meeting people online ... checking out their profiles and thinking ... "yeah ... not bad", talking more online and getting to know them and developing feelings for this entity, god knows where on the planet, typing their words to you and maybe, just maybe feeling the same way.

And how much of it is true ... ?

This was an intriguing watch, playful and suspenseful and by the end, full of heart that is a far cry from the gripping thriller documentary style movie portrayed in the trailer (which I saw after at one reviewers request) but none the less, I enjoyed the movie for piecing together something many of us have done ... but just not to these extremes. Give it a go ... =]