The Point

Overview

Ringo Starr narrates this animated story of Oblio, a round-headed boy ostracized by society because his head is not pointed.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/20/2012
UPC:	0760137536796
Original Release:	1971
Source:	Mvd Visual
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:14:00
Sales rank:	13,696

Special Features

Includes 4 never-before-seen bonus featurettes sure to entertain, surprise and amaze!; Who is Harry Nilsson?; Pitching The Point; Making The Point; Legacy of The Point

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dustin Hoffman	Narrator,Narrator
Ringo Starr	Narrator
Paul Frees	Voices
Lennie Weinrib	Voices
Bill Martin	Voices
Buddy Foster	Voices
Joan Gerber	Voices
Mike Lookinland	Voices
George Tipton	Conductor,Composer
Harry Nilsson	Composer

Technical Credits

Harry Nilsson

Norm Lenzer

Jimmy T. Murakami	Producer
Harry Nilsson	Producer,Screenwriter
Jerry Good	Producer
Fred Wolf	Producer,Director
Norm Lenzer	Screenwriter
Larry Gordon	Producer

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- The Point
2. Welcome to the Town
3. Everything's Got 'Em
4. Me and My Arrow
5. Triangle Toss and Trouble for Oblio
6. Poli High
7. Trial and Banishment to the Pointless Forest
8. Think About Your Troubles
9. The Pointed Man and the Rock Man
10. The Black Hole and the Balloon Ladies
11. Life Line
12. P.O.V. Waltz (w/ the Balloon Ladies)
13. The Leaf Man and the Bird
14. P.O.V. Waltz
15. On the Way Back Home
16. Are You Sleeping?
17. Welcome Home Oblio! Everyone has a POINT!
18. Credits
1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13
14. Chapter 14
15. Chapter 15
16. Chapter 16
17. Chapter 17
18. Chapter 18

Menu

Disc #1 -- The Point
   Play
   Chapters
   Bonus
      Who is Harry Nilsson?
      Pitching the Point
      Making the Point
      Legacy of the Point
   The Point: Chapters

Editorial Reviews

Singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson conceived this beloved anti-discrimination parable for ABC as a 1971 TV movie and worked with animator Fred Wolf, who won an Oscar for the hit 1967 short “Box” and later hit it big animating The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The feature-length story concerned Oblio, a boy banished from his village by an evil Count for being the only person whose head is round, rather than pointy. Oblio and his faithful dog, Arrow, set out for the Pointless Forrest, where they meet a gallery of bizarre and eccentric characters. The moral is that you don't have to have a point on your head for your existence to have merit -- that is, a point. Wolf’s hallucinatory and stylistically diverse animation style recalls Yellow Submarine (1968), and the presence of Ringo Starr as the narrator adds to the Beatlesque air. (The original telecast featured Dustin Hoffman as narrator.) Nilsson’s score, which he also performs, includes several gems, such as "Me and My Arrow"; even if it was sullied in popular memory later in the ‘70s as the theme song for a short-lived Plymouth auto, the tune -- seen here in its original context -- is as irresistible as pop gets. Finally available on DVD, The Point is a captivating, thought-provoking treasure that parents will delightedly share with their kids.

Barnes & Noble - Donald Liebenson