* Seattle Premiere *
The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger
Year: 2010
Director: Bill Plympton
Writer: Bill Plympton
Genre: Animation
Category: Short
Runtime: 6 min
Country: U.S.A.
Language: English
Color: Color
Company: Bill Plympton Studios
A tragic story of a bovine seduced by advertising led down the path of butchers and carnivores.
Synopsis: "The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger" is a children's fable about the power of advertising, the meaning of life and ultimately the test of a mother's love.
After producing many shorts that appeared on MTV and Spike and Mike's, he turned his talent to feature films. Since 1991 he's made 9 feature films, 6 of them, "The Tune", "Mondo Plympton", "I Married A Strange Person", "Mutant Aliens", "Hair High" and "Idiots and Angels" are all animated features.