How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days (1983)
- Directed by
- Joan Micklin Silver
- Genre
- comedy, family, tv movie
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 58 min
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A boy tries a self-help program from a book to become perfect. His family and a strange man help him learn it is better to be himself.
whimsicallightheartedgentlefunnyslightly quirkywarmfamily-friendlynostalgic
What happens
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days is a 1984 American television family comedy film directed by Joan Micklin Silver and written by Bruce Harmon, based on the 1982 children's book Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! by Stephen Manes. It stars Wallace Shawn, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Hermione Gingold. The film first aired on PBS on October 4, 1984, as part of the series WonderWorks, and was regularly shown on The Disney Channel in the mid-1980s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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