The Cosmic Eye
| The Cosmic Eye | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Faith Hubley |
| Produced by | Faith Hubley |
| Starring | Dizzy Gillespie Maureen Stapleton Jack Warden |
| Music by | Benny Carter Elizabeth Swados Dizzy Gillespie Conrad Cummings William Russo |
Production company | Hubley Studio |
| Distributed by | Upfront |
Release date |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Cosmic Eye is a 1986 American animated science fiction film directed by Faith Hubley and featuring the voices of Dizzy Gillespie, Maureen Stapleton and Jack Warden.[1]
Plot
A trio of homeward-bound space musicians, suffering from acute nostalgia on their space boat The Cosmic Eye, decided to take a turn over the Milky Way and sympathetically helping Earth while watching several films about contacting life in the cosmos and yearning for peace.[2][3]
Voice cast
- Dizzy Gillespie as Musician/Father Time
- Linda Atkinson as Musician
- Sam Hubley as Musician
- Maureen Stapleton as Mother Time
- Jack Warden as Rocko
Release
The film was released on VHS from Walt Disney Home Video in November 1985, but 7 months before the theatrically in New York City on June 6, 1986.[4]
Reception
Vincent Canby of The New York Times gave the film a mixed review, calling it “an unusually pretty film but, like its title, it's also a bit intimidating.”[4]
Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, writing that it “is as joyous and heartening a movie as you’ll find all year. This eye winks, flutters, stares unabashedly and sees to the heart.”[5]
See also
- Academy Award for Best Animated Shortwinner that is featured on the 1986 film
References
- ^ Turner Classic Movies
- ^ Sundance Institute
- ^ BAM
- ^ a b Canby, Vincent (June 6, 1986). "SCREEN: 'COSMIC EYE,' ANIMATION AND MUSIC". The New York Times. Retrieved November 25, 2021.
- ^ Wilmington, Michael (November 18, 1986). "MOVIE REVIEW : A BIG, WARM, WONDERFUL WORLD IN 'COSMIC EYE'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 25, 2021.
External links
- The Cosmic Eye at IMDb
- The Cosmic Eye at Rotten Tomatoes
