Inside Out Ending Explained: Sadness, Anger & Well-Balanced Emotions
The ending of Inside Out shows the inner workings of several characters and demonstrates how "negative" emotions like Anger and Sadness are important.
Inside Out (2015)
Pixar Animation's Inside Out tells the story of a little girl named Riley and her emotions. Inside Riley's mind exists the emotions that control her actions: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear. When Riley is forced to relocate to a new city, her emotions fall out of balance with disastrous results for the young girl's life, prompting the five emotions to work together to help Riley through her troubles.
Inside Out
- Director
- Pete Docter
- Release Date
- June 19, 2015
- Studio(s)
- Disney
- Distributor(s)
- Disney
- Cast
- Lewis Black , Mindy Kaling , Phyllis Smith , Amy Poehler , Bill Hader , Richard Kind , Kaitlyn Dias
- Writers
- Michael Arndt , Pete Docter , Meg LeFauve , Josh Cooley
- Runtime
- 95 minutes
- Franchise(s)
- Disney
- Sequel(s)
- Inside Out 2
- Budget
- 175 million
Summary
Inside Out is an animated adventure comedy from Pixar Animation Studios, creators of films like Toy Story and Wall-E. The film is told from the perspective of five different emotions of an 11-year-old girl named Riley (Kaitlyn Dias), who is struggling to adjust after her family moves from the Midwest to San Francisco. Joy (Poehler), Disgust (Kaling), Anger (Black), Sadness (Smith), and Fear (Hader) look to guide Riley as she and her parents move on to the next stage of life. Riley's emotions will vie for control all believing what's best for her, but when the world seems like too much for the young girl to handle, her emotions will need to work together and understand that complexity isn't always a bad thing. Inside Out will be getting a sequel titled Inside Out 2 releasing on June 14 2024.
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