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The Wrong Trousers
| The Wrong Trousers | |
|---|---|
 VHS cover | |
| Directed by | Nick Park |
| Written by | Nick Park Bob Baker Brian Sibley |
| Produced by | Chris Moll |
| Starring | Peter Sallis |
| Cinematography | Tristan Oliver Dave Alex Riddett |
| Edited by | Helen Garrard |
| Music by | Julian Nott |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | BBC Enterprises |
Release dates |
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Running time | 29 minutes[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £650,000[2] |
The Wrong Trousers is a 1993 British stop-motion animated short film co-written and directed by Nick Park, produced by Aardman Animations in association with Wallace and Gromit Ltd., BBC Bristol, Lionheart Television and BBC Children's International. It is the second film featuring the titular duo, eccentric inventor Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his dog Gromit, following A Grand Day Out (1989). In the film, a villainous penguin, Feathers McGraw, posing as a lodger, recruits Wallace by using his techno-trousers to steal a diamond from the city museum.
The Wrong Trousers debuted in the United States on 17 December 1993, and the United Kingdom on 26 December 1993 on BBC Two.[3] It was critically and commercially acclaimed, winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1994, also inspiring a charity fundraising day, known as "Wrong Trousers Day", one of several events.
The Wrong Trousers was followed by A Close Shave (1995), The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), and A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008). McGraw returns in the video game Project Zoo (2003) and the film Vengeance Most Fowl (2024),[4] as well as a background cameo in Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023).[5]
- ^ "Aardman Animations Present Wallace and Gromit in Nick Park's the Wrong Trousers".
- ^ "Aardman Animations – A Close Shave". telepathy.co.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ^ "The Wrong Trousers (1993)". BFI. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ^ "Wallace & Gromit's Christmas 2024 return adds Peter Kay, Reece Shearsmith". Radio Times. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
- ^ "Chicken Run 2's ending has a surprise crossover you might have missed". Digital Spy. 22 December 2023. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
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