Everybody Rides the Carousel (1976)

Name: Everybody Rides the Carousel
Genre: Animation, Drama
Released: 1976-09-10
Duration: 72 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Alvin Epstein, Jenny Lumet, Meryl Streep, Pablo Casals, Dinah Manoff

Everybody Rides the Carousel (1976), directed by John Hubley, starring Alvin Epstein and Jenny Lumet.

09/10/1976 BR Animation and Drama 1h 12m

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"Everybody Rides the Carousel" invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.

John HubleyDirector, Producer, Writer
Jeffrey FriedmanEditing
William RussoOriginal music
Faith HubleyWriter

About the film

Everybody Rides the Carousel is a 1976 American independent animated film based on Erikson's stages of psychosocial development. It was directed by John Hubley and written and produced by Hubley and his wife Faith. Among the cast are Meryl Streep, Dinah Manoff, and Lane Smith and other members of the Hubley Family. The film was broadcast on television by CBS on September 10, 1976. Cicely Tyson hosts the special.

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Plot

This animated special follows the eight stages of human development, from birth to death, according to Erikson's Eight-Stage Theory Of Psychosocial Development. The stages are: trust versus mistrust (infancy), autonomy versus shame and doubt (toddlerhood), initiative versus guilt (young childhood), competence versus inferiority (middle childhood), identity versus role confusion (teenagehood), intimacy versus isolation (young adulthood), generativity versus stagnation (parenthood), and integrity versus despair (elderhood).

Cast

Prologue

Alvin Epstein

Stage 1

Lane Smith

Stage 2

Stage 3

Emily Hubley

Bruce E. Smith

Jane E. Smith

Stage 4

Leeds Atkinson

Jenny Lumet

Stage 5

Jo-Carroll Dennison

Stage 6

Charles Levin

Meryl Streep

Stage 7

Per Bloland

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Tulani Bridgewater

Pablo Casals

Dinah Manoff

Florence Miller

George Miller

Lawrence Pressman

John Randolph

Lanna Saunders

William Watts

Stage 8

Harry Edison

Jack Gilford

Jane Hoffman

Juanita Moore

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Everybody Rides the Carousel at IMDb

Text from Everybody Rides the Carousel on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Rides_the_Carousel

Trivia

It premiered on September 10, 1976, a Friday.
It runs 1h12 — short for a feature film.
This film's quiz has 11 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.

Production

StudiosHubley Studios
CountriesUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
StatusReleased

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John Hubley Director
Jeffrey Friedman Editing
John Hubley Producer
William Russo Original music
Faith Hubley Writer
John Hubley Writer

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What is Everybody Rides the Carousel about?

Everybody Rides the Carousel: "Everybody Rides the Carousel" invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personal…

Who directed Everybody Rides the Carousel?

Everybody Rides the Carousel was directed by John Hubley in 1976.

Who stars in Everybody Rides the Carousel?

The cast of Everybody Rides the Carousel includes Alvin Epstein, Jenny Lumet, Meryl Streep, Pablo Casals and Dinah Manoff.

How long is Everybody Rides the Carousel?

Everybody Rides the Carousel runs for 72 minutes, or 1h12.