The Cosmic Eye

1986 American film
  • June 6, 1986 (1986-06-06) (New York City)
Running time
72 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

The Cosmic Eye is a 1986 American animated science fiction film directed by Faith Hubley and featuring the voices of Dizzy Gillespie, Maureen Stapleton and Jack Warden.[1]

Plot

A trio of homeward-bound space musicians, suffering from acute nostalgia on their space boat The Cosmic Eye, decided to take a turn over the Milky Way and sympathetically helping Earth while watching several films about contacting life in the cosmos and yearning for peace.[2][3]

Voice cast

  • Dizzy Gillespie as Musician/Father Time
  • Linda Atkinson as Musician
  • Sam Hubley as Musician
  • Maureen Stapleton as Mother Time
  • Jack Warden as Rocko

Release

The film was released on VHS from Walt Disney Home Video in November 1985, but 7 months before the theatrically in New York City on June 6, 1986.[4]

Reception

Vincent Canby of The New York Times gave the film a mixed review, calling it “an unusually pretty film but, like its title, it's also a bit intimidating.”[4]

Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, writing that it “is as joyous and heartening a movie as you’ll find all year. This eye winks, flutters, stares unabashedly and sees to the heart.”[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Turner Classic Movies
  2. ^ Sundance Institute
  3. ^ BAM
  4. ^ a b Canby, Vincent (June 6, 1986). "SCREEN: 'COSMIC EYE,' ANIMATION AND MUSIC". The New York Times. Retrieved November 25, 2021.
  5. ^ Wilmington, Michael (November 18, 1986). "MOVIE REVIEW : A BIG, WARM, WONDERFUL WORLD IN 'COSMIC EYE'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 25, 2021.

External links

  • The Cosmic Eye at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • The Cosmic Eye at Rotten Tomatoes