VHS : Wallace & Gromit - A Close Shave [VHS]

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Wallace & Gromit - A Close Shave [VHS]
starring: Peter Sallis, Anne Reid
directed by: Nick Park

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Amazon.com:
Hot from the international triumph of The Wrong Trousers, clay animator Nick Park knew that his third Wallace & Gromit film was going to have to be the biggest and best adventure yet for the mild-mannered inventor Wallace and his perceptive pooch Gromit. With the ambitiously zany plot of A Close Shave, Park and his fellow animators rose to the occasion and their film won the 1995 Academy Award (Park's second Oscar) for Best Animated Short. This time out, Wallace & Gromit have teamed up to provide a window-washing service, and that's how Wallace meets the lovely Wendolene Ramsbottom, a wool-shop owner whose malevolent dog Preston turns out to be the mastermind of a sheep-napping scheme! Of course, no Wallace & Gromit adventure can be without a grandiose gadget, so Wallace's latest invention is the Knit-O-Matic, a yarn-making machine capable of shearing a whole flock of sheep just a bit too efficiently! When the villainous Preston gains control of the mechanical knitting marvel, Gromit must race to the rescue, and A Close Shave reaches new heights of clay-animation mastery. Every shot is a testament to Nick Park's patience, his clever ingenuity, and his filmmaking flair. The movie's so technically impressive, in fact, that the whole world wondered where Park could go next. It was clear that Wallace & Gromit would eventually star in an animated feature-length movie, since this marvelous 30-minute film represents its own kind of short-form perfection. --Jeff Shannon

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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304179024
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304179022
Label: Fox Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Home Entertainment
Release Date: October 15, 1996
Running Time: 30 minutes
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 15, 1996

Customer Reviews

Number One by a close shave
This is my favorite Wallace and Gromit adventure, by a close shave over The Wrong Trousers. The characters have more depth, the plot is more complex, there's more dialogue, and Gromit is more emotionally involved and endearing. I think this third installment in the trilogy established Nick Park's brilliance, which led to his ongoing success in feature films.

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