Underplayed Gems

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
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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