Top Cast
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Emily Hubley
Self (voice)
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Georgia Hubley
Self (voice)
Overview
Two little girls muse on marriage and babies, love and death as they create and act out plays in their backyard. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2006.
Rating
1 Reviews
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CinemaSerf7 Mar 20, 2024An Hubley family enterprise that begins with their children's imaginary performance of a fairy tale about "Princess Polly" and "Prince John" - except that the two girls are way too easily distracted by things in their garden and the realisation - in the real world - that you can't actually marry your sister! Meantime, the animation strives to keep up with their characterisations featuring castles, chivalric knights, damsels in distress and, of course, a great big dragon! Soon tiring of that story, we now find ourselves with a bright giraffe and a kangaroo bouncing all over the place. The narrative comes across as a charming and entirely spontaneous conversation between the two youngsters at play and the stylish and colourful drawings cleverly parallel that meandering chatter, as does the clever use of sound effects leaving us with an end product that is quite an unique and stylish animation full of vibrancy and movement. Not a great deal of wind, though!!
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