Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
2002 · FILM

Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie

“Fresh Fish. Mixed Vegetables.”

Directed by
Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki
Written by
Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki
Runtime
82 min
AdventureAnimationComedy

Synopsis

Bob the Tomato, Larry the Cucumber and other vegetable characters embark on a sea voyage in Big Idea’s inaugural full‑length three‑dimensional animated feature. The film retells the biblical story of Jonah and the whale, presenting it as an account that emphasizes the value of second chances.

Credits

Actors
Editor
Writers
Directors

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 13

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John WahbaScored by Kurt Heinecke

Box Office

2002 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$25.6M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$25.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $25.6M — 100% of worldwide · International: $34K (0%)

Opening weekend: $6.2M — 24% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $7.3M — 29% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 940 theaters

Also known as

  • Jonas VeggieTales-Abenteuerde
  • Jonás: Una Pelicula De Los VeggieTaleses
  • Jonas et les Végétaloufsfr
  • Jonah: un film dei Verduriniit

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).

Help complete this page

We’re missing mpaa rating, logline. Sign in to add what you know.