A Matter of Loaf and Death
Another day dawns at West Wallaby Street and Wallace and Gromit are up with the birds, making bread for their latest enterprise – the ‘Top Bun’ bakery. With robotic kneading arms in place (another of Wallace’s madcap inventions) and a windmill on the roof, they’ve got a very professional set-up going. But there’s just one problem – the other local bakers in the town have been ‘disappearing’ one by one…could Wallace be the next one to go?
But with his sights set on winning the affections of former ‘Bake-O-Lite’ beauty Piella Bakewell, Wallace is oblivious to any danger and gets on with romancing Piella while Gromit turns canine sleuth in a bid to ensure Wallace doesn’t become the final member of the ‘Baker’s Dozen’..
Characters
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Piella
Wallace becomes ‘doughy eyed’ over the fading star of the Bake-O-Lite adverts. With her charming nature and captivating smile, Piella has grown rich from her modelling days and lives in a mansion filled to the brim with mementoes of her former glory. Wallace is putty in her hands...
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Fluffles
Fluffles is Piella’s beautiful if slightly nervous pet poodle. Withdrawn and lacking in confidence due to many years of unkind treatment, Fluffles is nonetheless a caring soul who strikes a romantic chord with Gromit.
Awards
3 wins & 4 nominations, including
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Oscar® Nominated
Best Short Film, Animated
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Bafta Winner
Best Short Animation
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Annie Winner
Best Animated Short
Factfile
- The film premiered in Australia and was shown in the UK on BBC One on Christmas Day, 2008
- Some of the sets for the film were amazingly complex – take a look at all the minute detail in the street scene where Piella pretends to run out of control
- Gromit has his first love interest in this film in the shape of Piella’s adorable poodle, Fluffles
- Did you spot that the cardboard box that Fluffles sleeps in has "Meatabix” written on the side? This is the same box Gromit uses to spy on Feathers McGraw in The Wrong Trousers!
- The first transmission of A Matter of Loaf and Death was watched by an incredible 16.2m viewers making it one of the top ten most watched programmes of the decade!
