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Your Face (1987)

01/05/1987 (US)Music, Animation, Comedy3m
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Overview

A tenor, in suit and tie, with a receding hairline, sings a ballad to his love, “Your Face Is Like a Song,” to simple piano accompaniment. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

    Top Billed Cast

    1. Maureen McElheron

      (voice)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

    7.0
    Written by CinemaSerf on Jun 20, 2025

    This is as much an animation to listen to as watch as this gent finds his face stretched, spun, shrunk, shredded and generally manipulated. He serenades us with a song about his visage - one that looks like it might be suffering from a bit of gout, and about that of his beloved with some fun rhymes to accompany these colourful contortions. From what I could tell, there’s not really any story as such here, it’s more a collection of enjoyably zany and abstract cartoons from an imaginative Bill Plympton loosely connected by a neck and an only occasionally connected torso. Visually, it’s a bit lik...

    StatusReleased

    Original LanguageEnglish

    Budget$2,000.00

    Revenue-

    Keywords

    • surrealism
    • love
    • singer
    • serenade
    • face
    • crooner
    • tenor
    • piano
    • hand drawn animation
    • hand drawn
    • short film
    • ballad
    • music
    • animated