The Point [Ultimate Edition] [Blu-ray]

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:	02/18/2020
UPC:	0760137266884
Original Release:	1971
Source:	Mvd Rewind
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:15:00
Sales rank:	2,052

Special Features

New! "The Kids's Got a Point": an interview with Mike Lookinland (HD, 17:13); New! "That Old Guy Wrote The Point": a conversation with screenwriter Norm Lenzer (HD, 15:01); New! "Everybody's Got a Point: Kiefo Nilsson and Bobby Halvorson on adapting The Point" (HD, 15:50); New! "Nilsson on Screen": biographer Alyn Shipton and friends on Harry Nilsson's film projects & appearances (HD, 1:01:13); The making of The Point: four part featurette includes: ; "Who Is Harry Nilsson?"; "Pitching The Point"; "Making The Point"; "Legacy of The Point" (SD, 26:40); Original claymation animation sequence created by Dean Torrence ("Jan & Dean") that inspired the film

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

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.