The Ticker Talks

"Understanding is in the heart..."

1995 0h 9m EN

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★8.0TMDB · 3

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Synopsis

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Heartless? Not old Ramsey Chadwick. He's befriended his own talking blood pump.

“Understanding is in the heart...”

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Cast

Phil Fitzpatrick
Ramsey Chadwick
Catherine Gibson
Violet Tickner
David Tate
Ramsey's Heart

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Steven Harding-Hill
Writers: Steve Harding-Hill, John Ross
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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RUNTIME

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

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ERA

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

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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

CAST

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Phil Fitzpatrick and Catherine Gibson and David Tate carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Understanding is in the heart...".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0206345 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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7 / 7

WILD

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Only 3 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Steven Harding-Hill directs. 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.
231 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Phil Fitzpatrick and Catherine Gibson and David Tate carry the top of the cast.
5Marketing tagline: "Understanding is in the heart...".
6IMDB entry: tt0206345 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 3 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime: 9 min · 0h 9m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: The Ticker Talks (1995)

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CinemaSerf2026-04-09
★ 7/10
Now perhaps she was over-reacting, but when 'Ramsey' discovers their young son 'Stalingrad' wearing his auntie's lingerie and then nails him to the shed door, his wife calls him heartless. Many years later, she has died; their boy is living with an MP in Chelsea and going by the name of 'Bunty', and he is having a conversation with this ostensibly missing organ on the chair opposite. It is acting as his psychiatrist as he reminisces about his time in the war, his happy and not so happy times with wife 'Violet' but not, it has to be said, in any particularly remorseful fashion. This is not a man full of regret as he soul searches. Frankly, he is just a bit of an old curmudgeon and this amiably exaggerated and detailed style of stop-motion animation, coupled with some quite observant and self-questioning dialogue, give us an enjoyable impression of a man socially ill-equipped for modern day life.

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