Wallace and Gromit in A Matter of Loaf & Death
| A Matter of Loaf and Death | |
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| Genre | Murder mystery, Comedy |
| Created by | Nick Park |
| Written by | Nick Park Bob Baker |
| Directed by | Nick Park |
| Starring |
Peter Sallis Sally Lindsay |
| Composer(s) | Julian Nott |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Executive producer(s) |
Peter Lord David Sproxton Miles Bullough |
| Producer(s) | Steve Pegram |
| Cinematography | Dave Alex Riddett |
| Editor(s) | David McCormick |
| Running time | 29 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Aardman Animations |
| Distributor | BBC |
| Budget | £100,000 |
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BBC One ABC1 |
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| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit |
A Matter of Loaf and Death is a 2008 British stop-motion animated film created by Nick Park, and the fourth of his shorts to star his characters Wallace and Gromit. It is the first Wallace and Gromit short since A Close Shave in 1995.
A Matter of Loaf and Death is a murder mystery, with Wallace and Gromit starting a new bakery business. With an unknown assailant murdering bakers, Gromit tries to solve the case before Wallace ends up a victim himself. It was the last Wallace and Gromit film before the retirement of Wallace actor Peter Sallis in 2010.
A serial killer has murdered twelve bakers. While on a delivery for their bakery business, Wallace and Gromit save Piella Bakewell, a former pin-up girl for the Bake-o-Lite bread company, and her nervous poodle Fluffles when the brakes on her bicycle fail. Gromit finds there is no problem with the brakes, but Wallace is smitten. He and Piella begin a whirlwind romance, and Gromit is angered when she redecorates their house. Fluffles and Gromit share a sensitive moment when she returns Gromit's possessions, discarded by Piella.
Wallace sends Gromit to return Piella's forgotten purse. At Piella's mansion, Gromit discovers numbered mannequins representing each of the murdered bakers, and a book of photos; Wallace is her planned thirteenth victim, completing a baker's dozen. When he shows Wallace the evidence, Wallace is too distracted with his engagement to Piella to listen.
Gromit installs security measures in their home, including a metal-detecting security screener. After Piella tricks Wallace into thinking that Gromit bit her, Wallace muzzles Gromit and chains him up. Gromit watches helplessly as Piella prepares to push Wallace into the grinder; Wallace is saved when Piella is struck by a bag of flour. After an angry outburst about bakers, she leaves, but drops by the next day to apologise with a cake. Gromit, suspicious, follows her home, where Piella throws him into a storeroom with Fluffles.
Escaping in Piella's old Bake-O-Lite hot air balloon, Gromit and Fluffles arrive at Wallace's house as he lights the candle. After a struggle, the cake falls, revealing the bomb. Wallace and Gromit are attacked by Piella, who reveals she detests bakers after her weight gain ended her career as the Bake-O-Lite girl. She is about to kill Wallace, but is attacked by Fluffles in a forklift. In the chaos, the bomb ends up in Wallace's trousers; Gromit and Fluffles neutralize the explosion with dough while Piella leaps onto her balloon and escape. However, owing to her weight, the balloon sinks into the crocodile enclosure in the zoo.
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