Annie Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

Academy Award® nominee Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) stars as Annie, a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) - advised by his brilliant VP, Grace (Rose Byrne) and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor, Guy (Bobby Cannavale) - makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.

Musical Reboot Remake

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Annie.

• Q
  Quvenzhane Wallis

  ... Annie

  Breathe, Fathers and Daughters

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  Jamie Foxx

  ... Benjamin Stacks

  Strays, Back In Action

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  Cameron Diaz

  ... Miss Hannigan

  Shrek 2 (re-release), Shrek 5

• B
  Bobby Cannavale

  Unstoppable, MaXXXine

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  Rose Byrne

  Ezra, Like a Boss

• A
  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  ... Nash

  The Bourne Identity, The Union

Crew Behind the Film

The Annie behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Will Gluck last directed Anyone But You and Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway. The film's writer Aline Brosh-McKenna last wrote Cinderella and We Bought a Zoo.

Director

Will Gluck

Screenwriters

Aline Brosh-McKenna

Producers

Shawn Carter
Jay-Z
James Lassiter
Jada Pinkett-Smith
Will Smith

Additional Information

All Trailers

Official Annie movie trailers and clips.

Production Details

What we know about the Annie movie production.

Key Facts

• Jamie Foxx will play a character named Benjamin Stacks, a variation of Daddy Warbucks, who takes in the orphan girl being played by Quvenzhane Wallis.
• Based on the stage musical Annie, with the book by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin -- which in turn was based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie.
• Jay-Z will "re-imagine" the music, much as he did when he re-fashioned the Broadway show's "Hard Knock Life" into an anthem of urban poverty.

Questions

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Official Page and Social Links

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