When the Day Breaks

1999 0h 10m EN

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6.7

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★6.7TMDB · 50

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Synopsis

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A rooster has his last biscuit for breakfast and goes grocery shopping. A pig prepares her breakfast (potato peelings, with the potatoes thrown in the trash) and discovers she needs more milk. Their paths cross, a lemon falls into the sewer, and both lives are changed.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Wendy Tilby
Languages: No Language
Countries: Canada

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RUNTIME

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Tight 10-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 5

ERA

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27 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 5

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 5

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0200282 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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5 / 5

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Only 50 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Wendy Tilby directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Canada. Dialogue in No Language.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 10-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
227 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4IMDB entry: tt0200282 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
5Only 50 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime: 10 min · 0h 10m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): G
IMDB: When the Day Breaks (1999)

Awards

Annecy Cristal for a Short Film

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Wendy Tilby

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CinemaSerf2024-04-01
★ 7/10
This has something of a very early, silent film look to it as a neatly dressed singing pig discovers that the milk in her fridge could walk to the bin by itself, so she dons her coat and heads out to replenish her supply. Walking into the shop, she slams straight into a rooster carrying his own shopping. Despite his lemons hitting the pavement, he keeps on walking - and that's his mistake! The story itself isn't so hot here, but the flash-frame animations are really effective at giving us an almost photographic narrative at some stages then a more continuous stream of imagery as the thrust of what has just happened sinks in for our tea-making shopper. Loads of animals with human traits, carrying out human tasks, watching television - accompanied by a very 1940s wartime-sounding soundtrack and all connected, it would seem, by their shared use of the electricity network. Quirky and innovative, this - and a lot happens before breakfast.

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