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Open Season is a 2006 American animated adventure comedy film directed by Jill Culton and Roger Allers from a screenplay written by Nat Mauldin and the writing team of Steve Bencich and Ron J. Friedman. Produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, the film features the voices of Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Gary Sinise, and Debra Messing. The plot follows Boog, a domesticated grizzly bear, who is let go into the woods, and teams up with a one-antlered mule deer named Elliot to return to his old home before open season starts.