| Cuckoo, Mr. Edgar! | |
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| Director: | Pierre M. Trudeau |
| Producer: | Marc Bertrand Thérèse Descary |
| Music: | Louis Gagné |
| Editing: | José Heppell |
| Studio: | National Film Board of Canada |
| Runtime: | 13 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
Cuckoo, Mr. Edgar! (French: Coucou, Monsieur Edgar!) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Pierre M. Trudeau and released in 1999.[1] The film centres on Mr. Edgar, a mechanical bird in a cuckoo clock left inside an abandoned house, who is forced to adapt to the demands of fatherhood when a storm causes three eggs to tumble into the house's living room which soon hatch into baby birds.[2]
The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 21st Genie Awards,[3] and a Jutra Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 2nd Jutra Awards.