Film

A Close Shave 1996

Directed by Nick Park

  • Family, Animation, Comedy
  • 30 min
  • NR

A cracking wacky adventure.

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.

FamilyAnimationComedyprisonsheepinventorloyaltyinnocencehuman animal relationshipvillainsurrealismromanceanthropomorphismstop motionframed

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