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“Finding Nemo”: A Father’s Search for His Lost Son

The film Finding Nemo is an animated story of a father's resolute search for his son. The father, a fish named Marlin, teams up with another fish named Dory to find Nemo. A dentist captured Nemo while diving off the coast of Sydney, Australia and placed him in a fish tank in his office.

Nemo thinks his father has forgotten about him and that he'll never see him again. But one day a pelican named Nigel lands in the window of the dentist office and begins to tell Nemo an amazing story.

"Nemo! Your father's been fighting the entire ocean looking for you!" reports Nigel.

"My father?" Nemo incredulously asks.

"Oh, yeah! He's been battling sharks and jellyfish," Nigel recounts.

"It's my dad! He took on a shark!" proudly exclaims Nemo.

Nigel says, "I heard he took on three."

Nemo is dumbfounded. He repeats, "Three?"

Nigel explains, "You see, kid. After you were taken, your dad started swimming like a maniac. He took on three sharks. He battled an entire jellyfish forest. Now he's riding a bunch of sea turtles on the east Australian current, and the word is he's headed this way right now to Sydney."

"What a great daddy!" Nemo says.

Elapsed time: Measured from the beginning of the opening credit, this scene begins at 00:58:30 and ends at 00:59:37.

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