The Brave Little Toaster
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All team (92)
Short description
Five household appliances have been left behind in a mountain summer home: Toaster, Radio, Lampy the lamp, Kirby the vacuum cleaner and Blanky the electric blanket. When a "For Sale" sign goes up outside and their young owner does not return, they set out for the city to find him. Jerry Rees directed the film from a screenplay he wrote with Joe Ranft, and it was produced by Donald Kushner and Thomas L. Wilhite for Walt Disney Pictures, The Kushner-Locke Company and Hyperion Pictures. It was Rees's first feature as director; his next was The Marrying Man in 1991. The voice cast includes Deanna Oliver as Toaster, Jon Lovitz as the Radio, Timothy Stack as Lampy, Phil Hartman as the Air Conditioner, Timothy E. Day as Blanky, and Thurl Ravenscroft as Kirby.
The film runs 90 minutes and blends adventure, animation, family and fantasy. It was made for about 2 million USD and took in roughly the same amount worldwide, so its theatrical run did not recoup much beyond its cost. It has since found a wider audience: on IMDb it holds 7.2 out of 10 from around 29,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.9 out of 10 from about 500 votes. A critics' rating of 7.3 out of 10 from 14 reviews places it slightly above the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Approximately midway through production, producer Donald Kushner decided to remove the nightmare scene entirely from the film because children might be frightened by the clown. He made the same decision regarding the scene at the junkyard, where one of the cars voluntarily drives towards the crushing machine, which could be interpreted as a reference to suicide. For unknown reasons, these scenes remained in the film.
- Initially, the film was being developed by "Disney," with John Lasseter as director. Lasseter intended to be the first to combine traditional hand-drawn animation with computer imagery. However, studio management was interested in using computer animation solely to save financial resources. Upon learning that its use would have little impact on the project’s cost, management immediately lost interest and shut down the ambitious project. Lasseter was fired from "Disney" and became one of the founders of "Pixar," where he made the film independently (without computer animation). Eventually, "Disney" bought the finished film, showed it on "Disney Channel," and it became a hit.
- The lamp, voiced by Phil Hartman (1948-1998), resembles Austrian and American actor, director, and screenwriter Peter Lorre (1904-1964) in both voice and appearance. The air conditioner, also voiced by Hartman, is modeled after Jack Nicholson.
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