The Brave Little Toaster (film)
The Brave Little Toaster is a 1987 American animated musical comedyadventure 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 lamp, an electric blanket, a radio, and a vacuum cleanerwho go on a quest to search for their original owner.
Toaster is a femininevoiced 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 Robs cottage for his return with an increasing sense of abandonment, causing Blanky to hallucinate about finally seeing Rob return. One day, 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 Radios signal broadcasts from the city, where Rob lives.On their journey, the appliances encounter numerous harrowing adventures where they learn to work together. Shortly after stopping to rest within a forest, a bad dream where Rob and Toaster get tortured by an evil smirking clown followed by a violent storm during nightfall wakes Toaster and the others with the storm blowing Blanky up into the trees, and Lampy risks his life by using himself as a lightning rod in an attempt to recharge the groups dead battery. After recovering Blanky, they try to cross a waterfall, but during an attempt to cross it, everyone falls in except for Kirby, who dives after them and rescues them, and the appliances wash up into the middle of a swamp. After losing both the chair and the battery, the group resorts to pulling a disabled Kirby through the swamp. After losing their balance and almost drowning in a mud hole, they are rescued by Elmo St. Peters, an owner of an appliance parts store, where they get scared by a group of partially dismantled or disfigured appliances, who have lost hope and are at risk of being disassembled or sold, almost in a prisonlike motif. When Radio is taken from a shelf and about to have his radio tubes taken apart, the appliances frighten St. Peters by pretending to be a
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