A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit, later marketed as A Grand Day Out, is a 1989 British stop-motion animated short film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol. In the film, Wallace and Gromit spend a bank holiday by building a homemade rocket to the Moon to sample cheese.
The short premiered on November 4 1989, at the Bristol Animation Festival at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. It was first broadcast on December 24 1990, Christmas Eve, on Channel 4.
- Directed by Nick Park. Produced by Rob Copeland. Written by Nick Park and Steve Rushton.
Dialogue
- [first lines]
- Wallace: Eeh, these bank holidays. It's a problem to decide. Tell you what, Gromit lad!
- [Gromit wakes up]
- Wallace: Let's have a nice hot cup of tea, hm? [walks out of the room] Kettle should have boiled by now.
- Wallace: No cheese, Gromit. Not a bit in the house.
- Wallace: Gromit, that's it! Cheese! We'll go somewhere where there's cheese!
- [Wallace looks at "Cheese Holidays" magazine, then out window]
- Wallace: Everybody knows the moon is made of cheese...
- Wallace: 60 seconds to blast off! Unlock the doors!
- Wallace: No crackers Gromit! We've forgotten the crackers!
- Wallace: [referring to "The Cooker"] Oh! Daylight robbery! They always nick your money. Flippin' machines. Come on, Gromit.
- [The machine doesn't work]
- Wallace: Come on, stupid...
- [The machine still doesn't work]
- Wallace: [stunned slightly] Oh!
- [Wallace is eating the moon]
- Wallace: It's like no cheese I've ever tasted. Let's try another spot.
- Wallace: Oh no! Oh! The fuse! You forgot to light the fuse! Ah!
Taglines
- From the Oscar-winning creator of The Wrong Trousers.
- From the Oscar-winning creator of Creature Comforts.
- From the makers of Chicken Run.
Cast
- Peter Sallis as Wallace
- Peter Hawkins as Gromit
- Frank Welker as the Cooker
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