Cuckoo, Mr. Edgar! | |
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French | Coucou, Monsieur Edgar! |
Directed by | Pierre M. Trudeau |
Written by | Pierre M. Trudeau Pierre-Michel Tremblay Denis Saint-Denis |
Produced by | Marc Bertrand Thérèse Descary |
Edited by | José Heppell |
Music by | Louis Gagné |
Production company | |
Release date | 1999 |
Running time | 13 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Cuckoo, Mr. Edgar! ( French: Coucou, Monsieur Edgar!) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Pierre M. Trudeau and released in 1999. [1] The film centres on Mr. Edgar, a mechanical bird in a cuckoo clock left inside an abandoned house, who is forced to adapt to the demands of fatherhood when a storm causes three eggs to tumble into the house's living room which soon hatch into baby birds. [2]
The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 21st Genie Awards, [3] and a Jutra Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 2nd Jutra Awards.