Movie Type: Fantasy Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure
Themes: Man's Best Friend, Experiments Gone Awry
Main Cast: Peter Sallis
Release Year: 1995
Country: UK
Run Time: 30 minutes
Plot
The third film to feature the claymation adventures of Wallace and Gromit, A Close Shave finds the inventor and his dog with a new business, new friends, and a new adversary. As the story begins, the team has decided to open a window-washing service, with Wallace providing clever gadgets while Gromit does the real work. Yet Wallace continues inventing in his spare time and has recently built a new device, the Knit-O-Matic, to clean and shear sheep -- which comes in quite handy when a lost lamb takes refuge in their home. Wallace and Gromit soon discover that this lamb has escaped from a pair of evil sheep rustlers who want him back. The mastermind of the rustling scheme turns out to be Preston, a dog belonging to local wool-shop proprietor Wendolene Ramsbottom; complicating things further is the fact Wendolene is also the object of Wallace's romantic affections. When Preston frames Gromit as the rustler and plots to steal the Knit-O-Matic, the pair must find a way to save the sheep and themselves. Director Nick Park once again mixes inventive animation with deviously clever plotting and whimsical humor, a combination that won him his third "Best Animated Short" Oscar. ~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide
Nick Park - Director, David Sproxton - Executive Producer, Julian Nott - Composer (Music Score), Sam Jones - Camera Operator, Phil Lewis - Production Designer, Dave Alex Riddett - Cinematographer, Colin Rose - Producer, Michael Rose - Producer, Nick Park - Screenwriter, Bob Baker - Screenwriter
