For more than a decade, SETH MACFARLANE has stretched the envelope of comedy about as far as it can go as the visionary behind the hit television shows Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show. Now he brings his boundary-pushing brand of humor to the big screen for the first time as writer, director, producer and voice star of Ted.

In the live-action/CG-animated comedy, MacFarlane tells the story of John Bennett (MARK WAHLBERG of The Other Guys, Contraband), a grown man whose simple childhood wish brought his cherished teddy bear to life. Almost 30 years later, the fairy tale is very much over. Ted is reluctant to leave John’s side…to the increasing annoyance of John’s only-so-patient girlfriend, Lori Collins (MILA KUNIS of Friends With Benefits, Black Swan).

Though Lori’s displeasure with John is exacerbated by his dead-end career and days spent smoking weed and drinking beers with Ted, she’s not the one who is the most frustrated with him. As John struggles to figure out a way to navigate this thing called adulthood, it will take the unexpected help of his boyhood toy to make the leap from man-child to a grown-ass man.

Directed by MacFarlane from a screenplay he wrote with ALEC SULKIN (Family Guy, The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn) and WELLESLEY WILD (Family Guy, The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn), Ted co-stars an impressive comedic lineup that includes JOEL MCHALE (TV’s Community, What’s Your Number?) as Rex, Lori’s very rich and even more lecherous boss; Donny (GIOVANNI RIBISI of Contraband, Avatar) as Donny, a guy who wants to fulfill his childhood dream and have a Ted of his very own; and PATRICK WARBURTON (Rules of Engagement, Family Guy) as Guy, John’s fight-club-loving co-worker at the rental-car counter.

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