Wallace & Gromit The Complete Cracking Collection [DIGITAL VIDEO DISC] Eco Amaray Case, Subtitled Released 2023 product/publication from Shout! Factory

Two-disc set includes Wallace & Gromit A Grand Day Out (1989)The British clay animation duo-eccentric Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his loyal pooch Gromit-made their debut in this Academy Award-nominated short film that shows the desperate measures Wallace goes to get cheese to go with his crackers on a holiday when the shops are all closed. Written and directed by Nick Park. 49 min. C/Rtg NR Wallace & Gromit The Wrong Trousers (1993)Academy Award-winning clay animation short from Aardman Animations' Nick Park follows put-upon Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) and his canine pal, Gromit, through a comic mess involving stolen diamonds, dastardly penguins, and a pair of Inchautomated techno-trousers.Inch 62 min. C/Rtg NR Wallace & Gromit A Close Shave (1995)Mild-mannered Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) is anything but InchsheepishInch when he's attracted to Wendolene (Anne Reid), the owner of the local wool shop where he and Gromit have been hired as window cleaners, in director Nick Park's Oscar-winning animated short. Justin Fletcher provides the voice of Shaun the sheep. 44 min. C/Rtg NR Wallace & Gromit A Matter Of Loaf And Death (2008)Wallace and Gromit face their greatest (and funniest) challenge after opening an elaborately constructed granary at 62 West Wallaby Street. What will happen to their booming new business when local bakers begin to vanish and Wallace (voiced by Peter Sallis) falls in love with a gal who really digs bread? 29 min. C/Rtg TV-PG Wallace & Gromit Cracking Contraptions (2002)In 2002, Nick Park and Aardman Animations produced a series of 10 shorts for Japanese television, which later aired on BBC One, that looked at Wallace's new inventions and Gromit's exasperation with them. Episodes include InchShopper 13,Inch InchThe Autochef,Inch InchA Christmas Cardomatic,Inch InchThe Tellyscope,Inch InchThe Snowmanotron,Inch InchThe Bu

NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - DVD - This stop-motion animated fable was a big hit when it was released - not only at the box office, but critically. It was praised for it's stunning originality and for the excellence of it's execution. In addition, it was praised for being a completely absorbing fable that both grownups and children can enjoy, so long as the children are able to it's handle scary bits (beginning perhaps at age seven or eight). In the story, Jack Skellington (voice of Chris Sarandon) is the Pumpkin King of Halloweentown, a realm of reality where the inhabitants make it their life's work to scare humans on Halloween. He's good at his work, and is very popular around town, but it all bores him. In a funk one day, he wanders into a wood where every tree is the doorway to realms serving one or another human holiday, and falls through the doorway into Christmas. There, he sees scenes of such glee and good will that he is overwhelmed. He returns to Halloweentown with the inspiration to persuade his fellow citizens to kidnap Santa and do Christmas in their own Halloweentown way - complete with snakes and shrunken heads. Despite strong arguments against this project by Jack's otherwise loyal girlfriend, Sally (voice of Catherine O'Hara), Santa (voice of Edward Ivory) is duly captured, and the townspeople prepare a very special Christmas for everyone. Jack is excited about the new plan, and at first doesn't notice that Sally isn't around much anymore. Meanwhile, Oogie Boogie (voice of Ken Page), a sinister opponent of Jack's, has re-kidnapped Santa and has captured Sally as well. Since Sally is the true love of Jack's life and (he eventually realizes) the only one who can be relied upon to tell him the truth in every circumstance, a confrontation with Oogie Boogie becomes inevitable. In addition to being a monumental work of animation (