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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 1990 American superhero comedy film based on the comic book characters created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It is the first installment in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series. Directed by Steve Barron and written by Todd W. Langen and Bobby Herbeck, the film follows the Turtles on a quest to save their master, Splinter, with their new allies, April O'Neil (Judith Hoag) and Casey Jones (Elias Koteas), from the Shredder and his Foot Clan. The film adapts the early Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics, with several elements taken from the animated series airing at the time.