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Geri's Game(Movie, 1997)

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| 4min | Genres: Animation, Kids & Family
Geri's GameRating: 3.8/5 (with 517517 votes)
Geri's Game is a 1997 American animated short film produced by Pixar and written and directed by Jan Pinkava. The short, which shows an elderly man named Geri who competes with himself in a game of chess, was Pixar's first film to feature a human being as its main character; Geri later made a cameo appearance in Toy Story 2 as "The Cleaner", here voiced by Jonathan Harris instead of Bob Peterson. Geri's Game was released eight years after Knick Knack, the last short by Pixar to that point, made as part of an effort to reignite the studio's short film series, which had been put on standby in order to focus on the creation of television commercials as well as the studio's first feature film, which would become the first-ever full-length computer-animated film, Toy Story. A dedicated research and development team worked alongside the filmmakers to devise ways to get around the burdens of animating a human character, leading to an in-house computer simulation to mimic the natural movement of clothing on a character. Subdivision surface modeling, a technique partly pioneered by Edwin Catmull in 1978 but mostly ignored... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Geri's Game

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

About Geri's Game

An aging codger named Geri plays a daylong game of chess in the park against himself. Somehow, he begins losing to his livelier opponent. But just when the game's nearly over, Geri manages to turn the tables.

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Geri's Game - CGI making of (1997)(Behind the Scenes, 0:12)

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: No Language (XX)
Translated into 26 languages: Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), 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 DE: 11/24/1997
Voice Actor: Bob Peterson
Director: Jan Pinkava
Screenwriter: Jan Pinkava
Composer: Gus Viseur
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Pixar - Le Joueur d'Echecs"
"To paihnidi tou Geri"
"Pixar Shorts: Geri's Game"

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