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Category: 30
All Genres: Animation, Short
Release Year: 1991
Country: South Korea, USA
Runtime: 25
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: James Simon
Sound: Stereo
Taglines:

A World of Fantasy and Adventure

Writing by: L. Frank Baum - novel
Roger Scott Olsen - writer

Produced by: Diane Eskenazi - executive producer
Ron Layton - executive producer
James Simon - producer

Cast: Beau Bridges - James Brady
Joan Allen - Sarah Brady
David Strathairn - Doctor Art Kobrine
Bryan Clark - Ronald Reagan
Steven Flynn - John Hinckley
Christopher Bell - Scott 'Scotty' Brady
Gary Grubbs - Larry 'Catfish' Speakes
Susan Brown - Nancy Reagan
Christine Healy - Ruth
Timothy Landfield - Bob
Alan Ackles - Journalist

Music: Georges Delerue
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Plot Outline: In 1981, during the assassination attempt on then President Ronald Reagan, White House Press Secretary James Brady was shot and left paralyzed...
Plot: In 1981, during the assassination attempt on then President Ronald Reagan, White House Press Secretary James Brady was shot and left paralyzed. This biographical account follows his life before and after the shooting leading up to the passage of the Brady Bill which regulates the sale of handguns.

Movie Quotes: Opus: As your records will show, Father Christmas, I am a bird. Specifically, a penguin. An embarrassing accident at birth, for which I do not blame my mother. I prefer to blame Congress.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
After the credits, we see Truffles yelling up at Opus "Don't get cocky up there!" before Opus' prothstetic buttocks falls on him.

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Miscellaneous: The spellings of the names of some of the cast members differ between the opening and closing credits.

Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Based on a children's book which featured characters from the comic strips "Bloom County" and "Outland". All were written and drawn by Berkley Breathed.
During the production of Hook (1991), executive producer Steven Spielberg decided to utilize lead actors Robin Williams (The Kiwi) and Dustin Hoffman (The Cockroach) to record (in what little time he had) their voice-over work in a small studio. This is why both A-list stars were available for this animated special. It is also the reason why the quality of their voice recordings isn't as clear as the rest of the cast.
Berkeley Breathed was exceptionally displeased with the quality of the final product. In an exchange published in the Washington Post he said to a person trying to find the VHS or DVD version, "Hopefully [you will find it] in the rubbish pail. We can do better than that and we will with an eventual Opus film...but I'm glad you enjoyed it. I presume your family was on speed when they watched it. I would imagine it helps."