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Lucky and Zorba (1998)

Lucky and Zorba poster
Original title
La gabbianella e il gatto
Directed by
Enzo D’Alò
Genre
musical film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 16m
Rated
0
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 641 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A colony of cats raises an orphaned seagull chick after its mother dies from an oil spill. They must teach the seagull to fly before it migrates south for the winter.

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What happens

Lucky and Zorba (Italian: La gabbianella e il gatto; "The Little Seagull and the Cat") is a 1998 Italian animated drama film directed by Enzo D'Alò, based on The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly (Spanish: Historia de una gaviota y del gato que le enseñó a volar) by Luis Sepúlveda. The film was dubbed in English by Trimark Pictures in 1999 and aired on Toon Disney during the early-to-mid 2000s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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