The Brave Little Toaster Page #5

Synopsis: A group of dated appliances that find themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to, á la "The Incredible Journey", seek their young 8 year old "master". Children's film which on the surface is a frivolous fantasy, but with a dark subtext of abandonment, obsolescence, and loneliness.
Director(s): Jerry Rees
Production: Kushner-Locke Productions
  Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
75%
NOT RATED
Year:
1987
90 min
1,947 Views


Kirby?

Battery's running low.

We should

give it a rest.

Turn out that light.

Do we have

to stop here?

Only for a while.

Just long enough

to lose our minds.

We'll be cannibals

within a few days.

You'll be the first

to go, dial face.

Hey, fellas,

we can stay here.

Look.

What's the matter?

Eaten alive, the poor sap.

Wow, wow!

I thought you

were a goner.

You wish.

We are gonna need

some kind of shelter.

Shelter from the

likes of them.

Come here and say that,

chrome-dome.

- What?

- Oh, sorry.

I meant to say

"vacuous vacuum. "

Ladies and gentlemen,

let's get ready to rumble.

In the blue corner,

undefeated champion...

Rocko "The Radio" Ratuno.

Ding!

And there's the bell.

They're on each other

like black on a bowling ball.

Look.

That concludes

our broadcast day.

This is Lowell Winchell

signing off.

Good night, America,

and all the ships at sea.

Thanks.

That's all right.

So, what's this thing

with you and the blanket?

What thing?

All of a sudden you're

being so darn nice to him.

I was just thinking,

and I got this feeling...

that I should be nicer

to him for a change.

And now

I feel better.

- That's weird.

- What's weird about it?

You were never

this nice to him before...

and now you're nice

to him all the time.

I don't know.

I'm just trying to understand,

figure out what it means.

It's kinda

hard to describe.

It's like being next

to a new loaf of bread.

Hmm, let's see.

It's like a warm,

toasty feeling inside.

Like a glow.

- A glow?

- Yeah.

I think I know what

you're talking about.

It's like the feeling I get

when I think about the Master.

That's it.

I remember the first time

my bulb burned out.

I thought,

"That's it.

"It's over.

I'm burned out.

Eighty-sixed.

To the showers! "

But then the Master

put in a brand-new bulb.

And I just glowed.

That's all

there is to it.

That's very interesting.

Good night, slot head.

Good night.

Blah.

Ahh.

Run.

Aahh. Help me!

Help me!

Toaster!

Blanky!

- Blanky?

- Blanky!

Where are you?

- Blanky?

- Blanky!

- Blanket!

- Can you hear me?

The battery's

gone dead!

We're trapped

like rats...

small rats with

no hair and one light.

Blanky!

- Blanket!

- Blanky!

Where are you,

you little wimp?

Blanky!

Lampy!

Blanky?

Where are you?

Blan...

...keey?

Come on, Blanky,

speak up!

Just relax.

You've done enough.

We'll look for him.

I am feeling

burned out.

Listen.

Lamp was awarded

a Purple Heart...

for being wounded

in the line of duty.

Lamps across the nation

were switched off...

for a moment of silence

in respect for his bravery.

Help.

- Listen.

- Help me.

Toaster, Kirby,

I'm stuck.

- I hear him.

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Thomas M. Disch

Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction author and poet. He won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book – previously called "Best Non-Fiction Book" – in 1999, and he had two other Hugo nominations and nine Nebula Award nominations to his credit, plus one win of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, a Rhysling Award, and two Seiun Awards, among others. In the 1960s, his work began appearing in science-fiction magazines. His critically acclaimed science fiction novels, The Genocides, Camp Concentration, 334 and On Wings of Song are major contributions to the New Wave science fiction movement. In 1996, his book The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and in 1999, Disch won the Nonfiction Hugo for The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, a meditation on the impact of science fiction on our culture, as well as the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse. Among his other nonfiction work, he wrote theatre and opera criticism for The New York Times, The Nation, and other periodicals. He also published several volumes of poetry as Tom Disch. Following an extended period of depression following the death in 2005 of his life-partner, Charles Naylor, Disch stopped writing almost entirely, except for poetry and blog entries – although he did produce two novellas. Disch killed himself by gunshot on July 4, 2008 in his apartment in Manhattan, New York City. Naylor and Disch are buried alongside each other at Saint Johns Episcopal Church Columbarium, Dubuque, Iowa. His last book, The Word of God, which was written shortly before Naylor died, had just been published a few days before Disch's death. more…

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