Monsters Inc.

Written by: Pete Docter (story), Jill Culton (story), Jeff Pidgeon (story), Ralph Eggleston (story), Andrew Stanton (screenplay), Daniel Gerson (screenplay), Robert Baird (additional screenplay material), Rhett Reese (additional screenplay material), Johnathan Roberts (additional screenplay material).

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Main characters:

James P. "Sulley" Sullivan
Mike Wazowski
Boo/Mary
Randall Boggs
Henry J. Waternoose
Celia
Roz
Fungus (Randall's sidekick)

MONSTER TRAINING ROOM - A STUDENT MONSTER fails miserably at a child-scaring test. The C.E.O. of Monsters Inc., MR. WATERNOOSE, enters and explains why they need to scare children - they collect the screams of children to power the city. And nobody is better at scaring kids than James P. "Sulley" Sullivan.

MIKE AND SULLEY'S APARTMENT - MIKE WIZOWSKI runs SULLY through his morning work-out, part physical work-out, part scare work-out. They're confident they're going to set the all-time scare-record today.

MONSTROPOLIS - The guys have to walk to work. Since there's a power shortage they can't take Mike's car. They pass a wide variety of monsters all starting their day.

MONSTERS INC. FOYER - In the building's entrance area they meet Mike's fiancee, the company's receptionist, CELIA. Sulley is the object of hero-worship by JANITORS.

LOCKER-ROOM - Getting ready for their shift. Mike talks about how he's going to propose to Celia. Mocked by RANDALL BOGGS, their main competition in the company for the scare record.

THE SCARE FLOOR - The various monsters commence their work day. We see how the operation works - closet doors are lowered to stands. The scare-monsters go through the doors which lead to the bedrooms of sleeping children around the world. They gather the screams of the children in a machine. Sulley rocks the all-time record.

A monster returns from a closet door not knowing that he has a child's sock stuck on his back. The monster's partner freaks out and calls out a "23-19!". A hazmat-suit suit wearing team from the CDA (Child Detection Agency) comes storming in from every direction - children, and children's items, are feared by the monsters' world as toxic. The monster is quarantined and his fur is all shaved off, the sock detonated.

FOYER - At the end of the day Mike is about to head out with Celia to take her out to dinner where he can propose. But he's stopped by the accounting department's ROZ who reminds Mike that she needs Mike's paperwork for the day. Sulley covers for Mike and says he'll do the paperwork.

THE SCARE FLOOR - On his way to do the paperwork Sulley notices a single child's door is still out on the scare floor. He looks in the door, sees nothing. But when he comes out he finds the child, a little girl named BOO, has followed him out. Sulley freaks and tries to get rid of her. He fails.

HARRYHAUSEN'S RESTAURANT - Mike is about to propose to Celia when Sulley shows up, looking for help. He's brought Boo in a bag. Boo escapes, causing pandemonium. Mike and Sulley just manage to evade the C.D.A. but Celia get caught.

MIKE AND SULLEY'S APARTMENT - Terrified by the tiny girl, the monsters come up with and discard plans about what they should do with this human child. Boo yawns.

SULLEY'S BEDROOM - Sulley makes up a pet bed for Boo but she's taken over his own bed. She's scared to go to sleep because of the closet. She shows Sulley a picture of Randall that she drew - Randall is her particular closet monster. Sulley stays with her until she falls asleep.

MIKE AND SULLEY'S APARTMENT - Mike is still trying to come up with plans to get rid of their little problem. Sulley thinks maybe Boo isn't entirely awful, she's even kind of cute. Mike is less than convinced. Sulley notices the fabric of the back of a chair, plus some odds and ends around the apartment - he comes up with a plan to get Boo back to her door.

FOYER - They work the plan - they've made a little monster outfit for Boo. They bring her inside to find the place crawling with C.D.A. agents. Boo sneaks away and goes right up to Mr. Waternoose. Sulley feeds Mike's cynicism by being a horrible liar.

LOCKER ROOM/ACCOUNTING AREA - While Mike goes off to get the paperwork on Boo's door Sulley takes Boo for a potty break. Sulley and Boo end up playing hide-and-seek - Sulley is getting to like the little girl. Mike fails to get the paperwork from Roz.

Mike, Sulley, and Boo, hiding in a bathroom stall, overhear Randall talking with his side-kick FUNGUS. Randall is the reason Boo's door was out, and he wants that kid back.

THE SCARE FLOOR - Sulley gets Boo to the Scare Floor, but finds that Mike has the wrong door. Mike doesn't care, just toss the kid in and let's be done with it.

HALLWAYS - Randall sees in a newspaper photo from the Harryhausen restaurant that Mike was there - Mike must have the kid. Randall corners Mike and threatens him into making sure Boo gets back through her proper door.

Meanwhile Boo has gotten away from them. Sulley thinks Boo got caught in the trash and watches in horror as the building's trash compactor smashes the trash. The find Boo with a bunch of other monster children. When they grab her Boo laughs, causing a fluctuation in the power grid - a child's laugh effects the monster world's power just like their screams.

THE SCARE FLOOR - Mike has the right door this time. But he lets it slip that Randall knows they have Boo and got them the right door. Sulley is suspicious and doesn't want to send Boo through. Mike runs through the door to demonstrate that it's safe and is ambushed and captured by Randall in Boo's bedroom. Sulley and Boo hide as Randall carts Mike away.

HALLWAYS/SECRET ROOM - Sulley and Boo lose Randall at a dead end. Boo finds a lever that opens a secret door. They find Randall and Fungus in a secret room, hooking Mike up to a machine they call the Scream Extractor - works like the usual scream processing machines on the scare floor, but in a much more drastic fashion, possibly harming or killing the children that get strapped into it. Randall exits. Sulley rescues Mike from the machine, leaving Fungus strapped in the chair.

MONSTER TRAINING ROOM - Another child-scaring class is in session. Sulley keeps trying to tell Mr. Waternoose about Randall's Scream Extractor plan, but Mr. Waternoose keeps insisting that Sulley show the student monsters how it's done - so Sulley roars at the dummy child, scaring Boo. Boo runs away from him. The monster students gone, Mr. Waternoose reveals that he's in on the Scream Extractor plan. He sends Mike and Sulley through a door, banishing them, then destroys the door. He takes Boo away.

SNOWY MOUNTAIN/CAVE - They're met by the ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN who is another banished monster. Sulley is desperate to get back but Mike has had enough - they've lost everything on account of a human child. The duo split. Sulley rides an ad-hoc sleigh down the mountain to find a closet door in the village below.

SECRET ROOM - Sulley rescues Boo from the Scream Extractor, fights Randall. Mike returns to help.

HALLWAYS/THE SCARE FLOOR - On the run, they're slowed by an angry Celia who wants to know what the heck is going on. But just as Randall is about to catch up with them they're aided by Celia who announces that Randall just set the new scare record - Randall is slowed by all the monsters rushing up to congratulate him.

DOOR WAREHOUSE - The chase continues into the door warehouse where all the millions of doors of all the children of the world are stored. As they fight off Randall they search for Boo's door. Boo helps fight off Randall - she's no longer scared of her own personal monster. They send Randall through a door, the door is destroyed - Randall is banished.

MONSTER TRAINING ROOM - They trick Mr. Waternoose into admitting his plan into the cameras of the training room. He's taken away by the C.D.A. The head of the C.D.A. is revealed to be Roz.

THE SCARE FLOOR - Mike and Sulley say good-bye to Boo and take her home through her proper door. Boo's door is sent through the chipper.

THE LAUGH FLOOR - Boo's laughter gave the monsters the idea that a child's laughter is a more powerful source of energy than their screams. So the floor has been changed - instead of scaring children the monsters now go through the doors and make them laugh. Mike is the new star. Sulley is bummed and misses Boo.

Mike reveals that he put Boo's door back together piece by piece. Now all they need is the final piece that Sulley has been holding on to as a souvenir. Sulley is reunited with Boo.