Stanley

2000
7m

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

Stop Motion Animation Animation Drama Short

Stanley, who has the aged and disheveled look of a pensioner living on little, attends lovingly to a large cabbage, the only thing growing in his brick-walled back yard. His wife, meanwhile,... Read allStanley, who has the aged and disheveled look of a pensioner living on little, attends lovingly to a large cabbage, the only thing growing in his brick-walled back yard. His wife, meanwhile, is in the kitchen with her cleaver, dispatching red meat and trussed chickens with thunde... Read allStanley, who has the aged and disheveled look of a pensioner living on little, attends lovingly to a large cabbage, the only thing growing in his brick-walled back yard. His wife, meanwhile, is in the kitchen with her cleaver, dispatching red meat and trussed chickens with thunderous whacks. One evening, her eyes settle on a recipe for beef with cabbage, and she throw... Read all

Director
- Suzie Templeton
Writer
- Suzie Templeton

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

YOUR RATING

Director
- Suzie Templeton
Writer
- Suzie Templeton

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 5 wins & 1 nomination total

Photos1

User reviews3

6.999

Featured reviews

Kirpianuscus

a marriage story

The story of Stanley and his wife reminds, in precise - realistic manner, the mechanism of many marriages of venerable persons, refuged, after decades, in the circle of their hobbies, animated by forms of jealousy or only desiring the peace after presumed many conflics.

The art of Suzie Templar is admirable, again.

Beautiful portrait of each character, a provocative dream about cabbage as a kind of mistress and cold final of story .

Again, loneliness and a form of soul poverty as basic ingredients of a very short animation, the virtues of clay being, again, smart used.

And, no doubts, the atmosphere is the one of precious gifts.

7movieman_kev

Cabbage love

In this 7 minute multiple award-winning short from the UK, Stanley, a weather-worn old man has only the cabbage growing in his backyard to give him joy. His wife growing jealous of the lack of attention, fixes to make some cabbage stew. Suzie Templeton shows promise, and given that this is basically just a student film, I'm liable to overlook the short's flaws. And in all honesty, the good things of the film do out way the bad. Let me take the remaining time alloted to rail against the 10-line minimum IMDb has dictated and say it shouldn't apply to shorts less then 10 or even 15 minutes long.

My Short Grade: B