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Original title: Special Delivery
Year: 1978
Running time: 7 min.
Country: Canada
Director: Eunice Macaulay, John Weldon
Screenwriter: Eunice Macaulay, John Weldon
Cast: Animation
Music: Karl du Plessis
Cinematography: Animation
Producer: National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Genre: Animation. Comedy | Black Comedy. Short Film (Animated)
Synopsis: Alice Phelps heads off to the gym, reminding her husband Ralph to shovel the snow from the porch. Ralph ignores her and then later finds that the mailman has slipped, broken his neck, and died on their snow- and ice-covered porch. Ralph panics, and what he does with the body (because he's in fear of the letter carriers' union) and what Alice does upon returning home forever change their marriage.

Awards: 1978: Oscar: Best Animated Short Film

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Special Delivery (S)

1978

Eunice Macaulay, John Weldon

6.3

(385)