Underplayed Gems

A Close Shave (1995)

A Close Shave poster
Directed by
Nick Park
Genre
fantasy film, comedy film, children's film, family film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
31 min
Rated
NR
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 947 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Wallace and his dog Gromit run a window cleaning business. Wallace falls for a woman whose dog is secretly stealing sheep.

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What happens

A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film produced by Aardman Animations. The third instalment in the Wallace & Gromit series, following A Grand Day Out (1989) and The Wrong Trousers (1993), it was directed by Nick Park and written by Park and Bob Baker. In the film, Wallace (Peter Sallis) and Gromit are operating a window cleaning service, when Wallace falls for the owner of the local wool shop, Wendolene Ramsbottom (Anne Reid). The duo find that Wendolene is an unwitting accomplice in a sheep rustling operation run by her malevolent dog, Preston. A Close Shave was acclaimed and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 68th Academy Awards. A spin-off television series based on a character introduced in the film, Shaun the Sheep, premiered in 2007. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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