What is The Muppet Movie?
{{notability|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = The Muppet Movie | image = | alt = | caption = Theatrical release poster by [[Drew Struzan]] | director = [[James Frawley]] | writers = {{Plainlist| * [[Jerry Juhl]] * [[Jack Burns]] }} | based_on = {{Based on|''[[The Muppets]]''|[[Jim Henson]]}} | producer = Jim Henson | starring = {{Plainlist| <!-- per poster at http://www.impawards.com/1979/muppet_movie_ver1_xlg.html --> <!-- Muppets performers listed as starring per poster --> * Jim Henson * [[Frank Oz]] * [[Jerry Nelson]] * [[Richard Hunt (puppeteer)|Richard Hunt]] * [[Dave Goelz]] <!-- co-starring per poster --> * [[Charles Durning]] * [[Austin Pendleton]] <!-- rest listed as Special Guest Stars per poster --> * [[Edgar Bergen]] * [[Milton Berle]] * [[Mel Brooks]] * [[James Coburn]] * [[Dom DeLuise]] * [[Elliott Gould]] * [[Bob Hope]] * [[Madeline Kahn]] * [[Carol Kane]] * [[Cloris Leachman]] * [[Steve Martin]] * [[Richard Pryor]] * [[Telly Savalas]] * [[Orson Welles]] * [[Paul Williams (songwriter)|Paul Williams]] <!-- above list is per poster at http://www.impawards.com/1979/muppet_movie_ver1_xlg.html --> }} | cinematography = [[Isidore Mankofsky]] | editing = [[Christopher Greenbury]] | music = [[Kenneth Ascher|Kenny Ascher]] | production_companies = [[The Jim Henson Company|Henson Associates]] | distributor = [[Universal Pictures]] | released = {{Film date|1979|03|31|United Kingdom|1979|05|11|United States}} | runtime = {{Plainlist| * 97 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 97:28--><ref>{{cite web | url=http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/muppet-movie-1970-5 | title=''THE MUPPET MOVIE'' (U) | work=[[British Board of Film Classification]] | date=May 14, 1979 | access-date=July 27, 2015}}</ref> {{small|(UK version)}} * 95 minutes<ref name=numbers>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Muppet-Movie-The#tab=summary|title=Box Office Information for ''The Muppet Movie''|publisher=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]|access-date=January 23, 2016|archive-date=April 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.o