The Eagleman Stag

2010 0h 9m EN

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6.3

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★6.3TMDB · 24

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Synopsis

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If you repeat the word 'fly' for long enough it sounds like you are saying 'life'. This is of no help to Peter. His answers lie in the brain of the beetle.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

David Cann
Peter Eagleman
Tony Guilfoyle
Philip

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Mikey Please
Writers: Mikey Please
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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1 / 7

RUNTIME

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Tight 9-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 7

ERA

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Released 16 years ago.

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3 / 7

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Editor Mikey Please shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 7

CAST

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David Cann and Tony Guilfoyle carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt1725828 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 24 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Mikey Please directs. Mikey Please cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 9-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Released 16 years ago.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Editor Mikey Please shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5David Cann and Tony Guilfoyle carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt1725828 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 24 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Editing: Mikey Please
Runtime: 9 min · 0h 9m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: The Eagleman Stag (2010)

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What people are saying

CinemaSerf2025-06-26
★ 7/10
How to condense a lifetime into ten minutes? It’s maybe the very bleakly white style of this animation that starts by rewinding a man’s life back into the womb that manages to help it encapsulate some of the absurdities of being. When we are young, an annual event is seen as being positively aeons apart - especially as they might be more associated with fun. As we grow up, though, those timeframe references change and we become more aware of our own smallness, insignificance and maybe even irrelevance as our life cycle creates new beginnings that exist within the same time-honoured constructs. How can we stop it, though? Perhaps his fascination with insects, and beetles in particular, might reveal something useful? The stop-motion is strikingly both detailed and simple and the narration mixes a fluid narrative with some statements of fact - frequently asked as questions - that readily resonate with many of us who have gotten so used to time being there to be killed rather than enjoyed. Food for thought.

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