--- title: 'The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)' type: 'film' director: 'Frank Oz' released: '1984-07-13' runtime_minutes: 87 certification: 'G' genres: - 'Comedy' - 'Music' - 'Family' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-muppets-take-manhattan-1984' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087755/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) 1984 · G · 87 min · Comedy, Music, Family · United States Part of: The Muppets ## Synopsis The Muppets Take Manhattan is a 1984 American musical comedy film directed by Frank Oz and a standalone sequel to The Great Muppet Caper (1981). It is the third theatrical film featuring the Muppets. The film stars Muppet performers Jim Henson, Oz, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Richard Hunt, Jerry Nelson, as well as special appearances by Art Carney, James Coco, Dabney Coleman, Gregory Hines, Linda Lavin, Liza Minnelli, Joan Rivers, and Brooke Shields. Filmed in New York City during the prior summer, it was released theatrically in the United States on July 13, 1984, by Tri-Star Pictures. A fantasy sequence in the film introduced the Muppet Babies characters. ## Credits - **Director:** [Frank Oz](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-oz) - **Screenplay:** [Frank Oz](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-oz) - **Original Music Composer:** [Ralph Burns](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralph-burns) - **Director of Photography:** [Robert Paynter](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-paynter) - **Editor:** [Evan A. Lottman](https://cinepixo.com/people/evan-a-lottman) ## Cast - [Jim Martin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-martin) - [John Landis](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-landis) - [Elliott Gould](https://cinepixo.com/people/elliott-gould) - [Jim Henson](https://cinepixo.com/people/jim-henson) - [Lonny Price](https://cinepixo.com/people/lonny-price) - [Frank Oz](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-oz) - [Gregory Hines](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregory-hines) - [Richard Hunt](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-hunt) - [Dabney Coleman](https://cinepixo.com/people/dabney-coleman) - [Liza Minnelli](https://cinepixo.com/people/liza-minnelli) - [Gates McFadden](https://cinepixo.com/people/gates-mcfadden) - [Jerry Nelson](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerry-nelson) - [James Coco](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-coco) - [Brooke Shields](https://cinepixo.com/people/brooke-shields) - [Joan Rivers](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-rivers) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/themuppetstakemanhattan/ Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-muppets-take-manhattan-1984 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1214915); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.