Alvin and the Chipmunks: A Chipmunk Celebration

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Walt Kubiak directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Tight 22-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
• 232 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
• 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
• 4Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and Janice Karman carry the top of the cast.
• 5Only 19 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime

22 min · 0h 22m

Status

Released

Original language

EN

Certification (US)

NR

Also by

Walt Kubiak

• 
  Little Shepherd

  2002 · ★ 10.0
• 
  Meet Julie

  1987 · ★ 8.0
• 
  Red Boots for Christmas

  1995 · ★ 7.5
• 
  The Adventures of Ronald McDonald: McTreasure Island

  1990 · ★ 7.3
• 
  Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Easter Chipmunk

  1995 · ★ 6.0
• 
  Christmas with The Chipmunks

  1981 · ★ 5.5

Production companies

Who made it

• 

  Bagdasarian Productions

  US

• TH

  The Krislin Company

Key crew

• ProducerRoss Bagdasarian Jr.
• ProducerJanice Karman
• MusicThomas Chase
• MusicSteve Rucker

Release history · US

When it landed

• TV1994-11-20NR

Also known as

International titles

• Alvin and the Chipmunks: Alvin's Thanksgiving CelebrationUS