Over the Hedge is a 2006 American computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is loosely based on the comic strip of the same name by Michael Fry and T. Lewis. Directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Kirkpatrick, Len Blum, Lorne Cameron, and David Hoselton, the film stars the voices of Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, William Shatner, Wanda Sykes, and Nick Nolte. The film's plot follows a raccoon named RJ who must reclaim food for a bear, ultimately manipulating a group of animals that had recently awakened from hibernation in order to speed up the process.