A Close Shave(Movie, 1995)

Name: A Close Shave
Genre: Kids & Family, Animation, Comedy
Released: 1995
Duration: T00:30:00
Rating: 3.8

30min | Genres: Kids & Family, Animation, Comedy

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 335 votes)

Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film co-written and directed by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations with Wallace and Gromit Ltd., BBC Bristol and BBC Children's International. It is the third film featuring Wallace and Gromit, following A Grand Day Out (1989) and The Wrong Trousers (1993). A Close Shave won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. A Close Shave saw the first appearance of Shaun, who became the main character of the Shaun the Sheep spin-off series. ()

Part of the Wallace & Gromit Collection

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Awards & Nominations for A Close Shave

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation nominated for: Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

About A Close Shave

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.

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Trailer for A Close Shave + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

A Close Shave - The Birth of Shaun the Sheep - Wallace and Gromit(Trailer, 2:58)

A Close Shave - The Birth of Shaun the Sheep - Wallace and Gromit (Trailer) | Clip 1 (Clip)

Additional Information

Official websites:

www.wallaceandgromit.com

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)

Made by: Aardman Animations

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 26 languages: Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Basque (EU), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Latvian (LV), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 04/10/1995

Voice Actor: Peter Sallis, Anne Reid

Director: Nick Park

Producer: Peter Lord, David Sproxton

Screenwriter: Nick Park

Executive Producer: Peter Lord

Director of Photography: Dave Alex Riddett

Composer: Julian Nott

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Wallace & Gromit: Una afeitada al ras"

"Wallace und Gromit: Unter Schafen"

"O chloupek"

"Wallace & Gromit - 3 unglaubliche Abenteuer"

"Walter og Trofast.På et hængende hår"

"Vähältä piti"

"Les 3 Premières Aventures de Wallace & Gromit"

"Wallace & Gromit - Rasé de près"

"Wallace & Gromit 3 - Rasé de près"

"Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave"

"Wallace és Gromit: Robot-kutya"

"Una tosatura perfetta"

"Strzyżenie owiec"

"Wallace i Gromit: Golenie owiec"

"Воллес i Громiт: Стрижка пiд нуль"

"Воллес і Ґроміт: Стрижка під нуль"

"Wallace & Gromit - A Close Shave"

"Wallace & Gromit in A Close Shave"

"Wallace & Gromit in Three Amazing Adventures"

"Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave"

Keywords: prison, sheep, stop motion, surrealism, plasticine, sheep rustling, loyalty, framed, innocence, dog, inventor, animal, claymation