

Wild Life
This Oscar-nominated animated short tells the story of a dapper young remittance man who is sent from England to Alberta to attempt ranching in 1909.
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5.9/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Language
- English
- canada
- homesickness
- ranch
- letter
- comet
- loneliness
- wild west
- cattle ranch
- alberta canada
- woman director
- pioneers
- 1910s
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Canada
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CanadaCA
- TheatricalG10 Feb 2011
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Wild Life was released on 10 February 2011.
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1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
3/31/2024
I liked the brush-stroke style of animation here as we follow a rather naive young Englishman as he leaves the comforts of his upper-class existence and emigrates to Calgary. Now in 1909, that was little more than an hamlet but he has plenty of (parental) cash, so secures a 90-acre spread equipped with a pond and a shack. He's happy enough - though perhaps not as adventurous as he declares to his folks in his letters…
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