Barney's Great Adventure

Barney's Great Adventure
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Steve Gomer
Screenplay by	Stephen White
Story by	Stephen White Sheryl Leach Dennis DeShazer
Based on	Barney and the Backyard Gang and Barney & Friends by Sheryl Leach & Kathy O'Rourke-Parker
Produced by	Sheryl Leach Dennis DeShazer
Starring	George Hearn Shirley Douglas Trevor Morgan Kyla Pratt Diana Rice Jeff Ayers Jeff Brooks Julie Johnson David Joyner Bob West Patty Wirtz
Cinematography	Sandi Sissel
Edited by	Richard Halsey
Music by	Van Dyke Parks (Credited only in trailer)
Production companies	Lyons Partnership Lyrick Studios
Distributed by	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Release dates	March 27, 1998 (1998-03-27) (Radio City Music Hall) April 3, 1998 (1998-04-03) (Worldwide)
Running time	76 minutes
Countries	Canada[1] United States
Languages	English French
Budget	$15 million[2]
Box office	$12 million

Barney's Great Adventure (also known by its promotional title Barney's Great Adventure: The Movie) is a 1998 musical comedy adventure film based on the children's television series Barney & Friends, featuring Barney the Dinosaur in his first feature-length film. The plot follows Barney, along with three young children named Cody, Abby, and Marcella, as they discover a magical egg in a barn. After learning that the egg is a dream maker, Barney and the gang must return the egg to the barn before it hatches. The film was written by Stephen White, directed by Steve Gomer, produced by Sheryl Leach and Lyrick Studios and released by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment on March 27, 1998, at Radio City Music Hall in New York and worldwide on April 3, 1998, in the United States and Canada at the height of Barney's popularity.

The film received negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, only grossing $12 million against a budget of $15 million. This was the third and final film to be produced by Lyrick Studios before it was acquired by and folded into HIT Entertainment on June 6, 2001. It is also the only theatrical Barney film as all other Barney films were just direct-to-video productions.