Osmosis Jones
- IMDb link: 0181739
- IMDb rating: 6.3 (41,417 votes)
- Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Crime, Fantasy, Animation, Family
- Director: Laurence Fishburne, Chris Rock, Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly
- Cast: David Hyde Pierce, Brandy Norwood and others
- Release date: 10 Aug 2001
- Release year: 2001
- Runtime: 95 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: white blood cell, two word title, close up of eye, wisecrack humor, cancer, elasticity, fictional drug, fictional city, pill, stupidity
Plot:
When zookeeper Frank Detorre, the widowed father to his daughter, Shane, swallows a germ-ridden egg, he gives billions of lifeforms inside his body much work to do. In the "City of Frank", which has its good and bad neighborhoods, its own TV station, donut shops, and traffic jams, a white blood cell named Osmosis Jones is one of the many cops who try to keep up peace and order. Unfortunately, he seems to be the only cop in town who does not act by the book, but by his instincts. Even more unfortunately, they don't work out that often, and so he causes more trouble than he does good. But with that egg comes a mortal danger: the evil and deadly virus Thrax arrives in order to kill Frank within 48 hours, just to get his own chapter in the medical books. Starting out with flu symptoms in order to deceive the authorities and the public, he makes his way through Frank's body. Accompanied only by "temporary relief of symptoms commonly associated with flu" cold pill Drix, Osmosis suspects that there is more going on than just a simple flu. Meanwhile, Mayor Phlegmming is much more interested in his re-election than in real problems and tries to keep trouble down. So it is up only to Osmosis and Drix to stop the "red death" from making Shane an orphan.