Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
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| Directed by |
Chris Lavis Maciek Szczerbowski Clyde Henry Productions |
| Produced by |
Spike Jonze Vincent Landay Marcy Page |
| Starring |
Meryl Streep Spike Jonze Forest Whitaker Jack Gross Whitaker |
| Music by | Jean-Frédéric Messier |
| Edited by | Chris Lavis |
| Distributed by |
Warner Home Video National Film Board of Canada |
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23 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life is a 2010 Canadian live-action/animated short film about the fictional adventures of Maurice Sendak's pet dog Jennie, based on his 1967 children's book of the same name. It is directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, collectively known as Clyde Henry Productions, and features the voices of Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker and Spike Jonze. Jonze also served as producer along with Vincent Landay and Marcy Page. Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life was produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with Warner Home Video.
A Sealyham Terrier named Jennie leaves a comfortable life and embarks on a journey for new experiences and stardom.
An associate of Jonze had been impressed by Lavis and Szczerbowski's previous work, the animated short Madame Tutli-Putli and suggested to the director that they would be suitable to create a short companion piece for the Blu-ray release of Where the Wild Things Are. Jonze contacted the animators while he was in France promoting Synecdoche, New York and the two met after, with Jonze proposing that they create a film based on some other short story by Sendak. Unfamiliar with Sendak's work, the filmmakers researched his work and settled on Higglety Pigglety Pop! as their choice to adapt.
The film is set in 17 different locations, with a total of 25 scenes. With just 10 months to create the entire film, the filmmakers could not use stop-motion or any of their traditional animation techniques. They decided instead to primarily make use of puppetry, combined with some stop-motion.
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