
Nemo is placed in an aquarium in the office of dentist Philip Sherman in Sydney, Australia. The scent sends one of the sharks into a feeding frenzy, but they flee after accidentally setting off a ring of old naval mines, which knock Marlin and Dory unconscious. Marlin discovers a diver's mask that fell from the boat he accidentally hits Dory with it, giving her a nosebleed. The two encounter three sharks who have sworn to abstain from eating fish.

Marlin pursues the boat in vain and meets Dory, a blue tang with acute short-term memory loss, who offers her help. While Marlin is talking to Nemo's teacher, Nemo defiantly approaches a nearby speedboat, where a pair of scuba divers capture him. On Nemo's first day of school, Marlin embarrasses Nemo, and the two argue. Some time later, Marlin is overprotective of Nemo, born with a stunted right fin. Only one damaged egg remains, which Marlin names Nemo. His wife, Coral, and almost all of their eggs are killed in a barracuda attack. Marlin is a clownfish who lives in an anemone in the Great Barrier Reef.

It also became the highest-grossing animated film at the time of its release, and was the second-highest-grossing film of 2003, earning a total of $871 million worldwide by the end of its initial theatrical run. Released on May 30, 2003, Finding Nemo received widespread acclaim from critics, who praised the visual elements, screenplay and characters that has been cited as funny to both young moviegoers and their parents. Along the way, Marlin learns to take risks and comes to terms with Nemo taking care of himself.

It tells the story of an overprotective clownfish named Marlin who, along with a regal blue tang named Dory, searches for his missing son Nemo. The film stars the voices of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, and Geoffrey Rush. Directed by Andrew Stanton with co-direction by Lee Unkrich, the screenplay was written by Stanton, Bob Peterson, and David Reynolds from a story by Stanton. Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer-animated adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
