The Brave Little Toaster

The Brave Little Toaster
British release poster
Directed by	Jerry Rees
Produced by	Donald Kushner Thomas L. Wilhite
Screenplay by	Jerry Rees Joe Ranft
Story by	Jerry Rees Joe Ranft Brian McEntee
Based on	The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. Disch
Starring	Deanna Oliver Timothy E. Day Jon Lovitz Tim Stack Thurl Ravenscroft Wayne Kaatz Colette Savage Phil Hartman Joe Ranft Jim Jackman
Music by	David Newman
Edited by	Donald W. Ernst
Production company	Hyperion Animation Company, Inc. The Kushner-Locke Company Wang Film Productions
Distributed by	Hyperion Pictures
Release date	July 13, 1987 (1987-07-13) (Los Angeles)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2.3 million
Box office	$2.3 million (estimated)

The Brave Little Toaster is a 1987 American animated musical adventure comedy film adapted from the 1980 novel The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances by Thomas M. Disch. The film was directed by Jerry Rees. The film is set in a world where household appliances and other electronics come to life, pretending to be lifeless in the presence of humans. The story focuses on five appliances— a toaster, a gooseneck lamp, an electric blanket, a radio, and a vacuum cleaner—who go on a quest to search for their original owner.

The film was produced by Hyperion Animation along with The Kushner-Locke Company. Many CalArts graduates, including the original members of Pixar Animation Studios were involved with this film. While the film received a limited theatrical release, The Brave Little Toaster was popular on home video and was followed by two sequels a decade later: The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997) and The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998).

Toaster is the leader of a group of appliances consisting of an antique radio, a gooseneck lamp, Lampy; an electric blanket, Blanky; and a vacuum cleaner, Kirby, who belong to their master, Rob. They wait every day at Rob's cottage for his return with an increasing sense of abandonment, causing Blanky to hallucinate about finally seeing Rob return. One day towards the end of July, the appliances are devastated to learn that a real estate broker is selling the house. Not wanting to accept the fact that the Master would abandon them, Toaster decides that the group should head out and find Rob. The appliances connect a car battery to an office chair pulled by Kirby and set out into the world, following Radio's signal broadcasts from the city, where Rob lives.