The Brave Little Toaster

The Brave Little Toaster (1987)

Timing: 1:30 (90 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1987-07-09

Country

United States

Production

Walt Disney Pictures, The Kushner-Locke Company, Hyperion Pictures

Genre

Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Budget

$2 300 000

Revenue

$2 300 000

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Director

Jerry Rees

Actors

Deanna Oliver, Jon Lovitz, Timothy Stack, Phil Hartman, Timothy E. Day, Thurl Ravenscroft, Joe Ranft, Judy Toll, Wayne Kaatz, Colette Savage
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Scenario

Producer

Donald Kushner, Thomas L. Wilhite, Willard Carroll, Peter Locke

Operator

Composer

David Newman

Artist

Audition

Editing

Donald W. Ernst
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• Approximately midway through production, producer Donald Kushner decided to remove the nightmare scene entirely from the film because children might be frightened by the clown. He made the same decision regarding the scene at the junkyard, where one of the cars voluntarily drives towards the crushing machine, which could be interpreted as a reference to suicide. For unknown reasons, these scenes remained in the film.
• Initially, the film was being developed by "Disney," with John Lasseter as director. Lasseter intended to be the first to combine traditional hand-drawn animation with computer imagery. However, studio management was interested in using computer animation solely to save financial resources. Upon learning that its use would have little impact on the project’s cost, management immediately lost interest and shut down the ambitious project. Lasseter was fired from "Disney" and became one of the founders of "Pixar," where he made the film independently (without computer animation). Eventually, "Disney" bought the finished film, showed it on "Disney Channel," and it became a hit.
• The lamp, voiced by Phil Hartman (1948-1998), resembles Austrian and American actor, director, and screenwriter Peter Lorre (1904-1964) in both voice and appearance. The air conditioner, also voiced by Hartman, is modeled after Jack Nicholson.