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How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days (1984)

Name: How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
Genre: Comedy, Family, TV Movie
Released: 1984-10-08
Duration: 58 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Wallace Shawn, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Hermione Gingold, Sarah Boyd, Kate McGregor-Stewart

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days (1984), directed by Joan Micklin Silver, starring Wallace Shawn and Ilan Mitchell-Smith.

10/08/1984 BR Comedy, Family and TV Movie 58m

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Perfection isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Synopsis

A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.

Barry SonnenfeldCinematography
Joan Micklin SilverDirector
Jay FreundEditing
Mark GordonProducer

About the film

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days is a 1984 American television family comedy film directed by Joan Micklin Silver and written by Bruce Harmon, based on the 1982 children's book Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! by Stephen Manes. It stars Wallace Shawn, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Hermione Gingold.

The film first aired on PBS on October 4, 1984, as part of the series WonderWorks, and was regularly shown on The Disney Channel in the mid-1980s.

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The film first aired on PBS on October 4, 1984, as part of the series WonderWorks, and was regularly shown on The Disney Channel in the mid-1980s.

Plot

The film depicts a twelve-year-old boy named Milo, a hopeless klutz who happens upon a mysterious advertisement in the paper for becoming a perfect person. On offer is a three-day course devised by a peculiar man, Dr. Silverfish. Milo enrolls and manages to complete the strange tasks. Only after completing the course does Milo realize that perfection is a lot more boring than he thought it was (mainly because it involves never doing anything so as not to make mistakes).

Cast

Wallace Shawn as Professor Silverfish

Ilan Mitchell-Smith as Milo Crimpley

Hermione Gingold as Miss Sandwich

Sarah Boyd as Jenny Hillard

Kate McGregor-Stewart as Mrs. Crimpley

Lenny Von Dohlen as Erik Crimpley

Ned Boyd as Frankie Crimpley

B.J. Barie as Norbert Sandhill

John Rothman as Contest Judge

Joey Ginza as Mr. Yamata

Jodi Long as Mrs. Yamata

References

External links

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days at IMDb

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

Text from How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Be_a_Perfect_Person_in_Just_Three_Days

Trivia

It premiered on October 8, 1984, a Monday.
It runs 0h58 — short for a feature film.
This film's quiz has 10 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.

Production

StudiosHighgate Pictures
CountriesUnited States
LanguagesEnglish
StatusReleased

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Crew

Barry Sonnenfeld Cinematography
Joan Micklin Silver Director
Jay Freund Editing
Mark Gordon Producer
Bruce Harmon Writer
Stephen Manes Writer

Questions about this film

What is How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days about?

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days: A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.

Who directed How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days?

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days was directed by Joan Micklin Silver in 1984.

Who stars in How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days?

The cast of How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days includes Wallace Shawn, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Hermione Gingold, Sarah Boyd and Kate McGregor-Stewart.

How long is How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days?

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days runs for 58 minutes, or 0h58.