A Close Shave (1995)

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

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)

Trailer

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