Category: Animation
All Genres: Animation
Release Year: 2010
Country: UK, France
Runtime: 90
Rating: (0)
Languages: English, French, Gaelic
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital
Taglines:
Writing by: Sylvain Chomet – adaptation
Jacques Tati – original screenplay
Produced by: Philippe Carcassonne – executive producer
Sally Chomet – producer
Jake Eberts – executive producer
Jinko Gotoh – co-executive producer
Bob Last – producer
Cast: Jean-Claude Donda – The Illusionist / French Cinema Manager (voice)
Eilidh Rankin – Alice (voice)
Duncan MacNeil – Additional Voices (voice)
Raymond Mearns – Additional Voices (voice)
James T. Muir – Additional Voices (voice)
Tom Urie – Additional Voices (voice)
Paul Bandey – Additional Voices (voice)
Music: Sylvain Chomet
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline:
A French illusionist finds himself out of work and travels to Scotland, where he meets a young woman. Their ensuing adventure changes both their lives forever.
Plot: Details the story of a dying breed of stage entertainer whose thunder is being stolen by emerging rock stars. Forced to accept increasingly obscure assignments in fringe theaters, garden parties and bars, he meets a young fan who changes his life forever.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
At the end of the final credits, there's a short bonus scene.
Trivia: There are 5 entries in the trivia list – like these:
- The film will be based on an unproduced script by Jacques Tati, and will be starring an animated version of Tati himself.
- Setting of Tati's original script was Prague, but Sylvain Chomet moved it to Edinburgh, where he lives and has his animation studio.
- In the original script, the rabbit was a chicken. Sylvain Chomet thought that the chicken wouldn't work, so he changed the chicken into a flesh-eating rabbit.
