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User Rating:
7.7/10   218 votes
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Director:
Alex Weil
Writer:
Alex Weil (written by)
Contact:
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Genre:
Animation | Short
Tagline:
The mesmerizing ballet of a discarded food wrapper leads a New York subway rat into an adventure of love and loss.
Plot:
The rat fights for survival in the New York City subway. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins more
User Comments:
Lovely animation--okay story more

Additional Details

Runtime:
10 min
Country:
USA
Color:
Color
Company:
Charlex Films more

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2 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Lovely animation--okay story, 26 February 2008
6/10
Author: planktonrules from Bradenton, Florida

This is a lovely film with very nice CG animation. It begins with a rat following a cheese puff wrapper across the roof tops in a big city. By accident, the rat falls into some weird fully automated lab filled with white lab rats. The new rat is captured but with the intervention of the same wrapper, he is able to try to make his escape.

How much you like this film will probably depend on your feelings about animals and animal testing. Though it's never clear what will happen to these rats, it seems as if the makers of the film have a strong anti-animal testing bias and it seems they are perhaps trying to influence the viewer accordingly. Because of my background in psychology (where we treated the rats wonderfully and didn't harm them in any way), I am always leery of films such as this one or THE SECRET OF NIMH that seem to offer simplistic messages that people who use lab animals are evil. However, I can't let my own background color my impression of this film too much. Despite a relatively weak story, the animation is super-impressive and the story well constructed. It is well worth a look.

This film is one of the bonus shorts included with the wonderful DVD "A Collection of 2006 Academy Award Nominated Short Films"--a must have for fans of the genre.

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