Feast is a 2014 animated short film that was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It made its debut at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 10, 2014, and was released theatrically alongside the film Big Hero 6. Feast utilizes the hand-drawn and CG-amalgamated "Meander" animation style previously used in the Oscar-winning short Paperman. In 2015, Feast won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Summary[]
Feast is the story of one man's love life as seen through the eyes of his best friend and dog, Winston, and revealed bite by bite through the meals they share.
Plot[]
A stray dog scrounging for food near a fast food restaurant is found by a human named James. James gives the dog a couple of french fries and decides to adopt him, naming him "Winston". After some time together, James starts supplementing Winston's kibble with human food, which Winston excitedly eats. As the years pass, Winston regularly indulges in human junk food: some items are given to him, some are spilled, and some he is allowed to eat. But one day James falls in love with a waitress, named Kirby, at a restaurant. When they start dating, Winston gets nothing but dog food and vegetables (as Kirby tries to help keep them healthy), which upsets him. One day, James and Kirby have an argument and she leaves him, which sends James into a deep depression and causes him to start eating junk food once again.
Although Winston is at first happy with the return to junk food, he soon recognizes James' depression. Noticing a sprig of parsley that reminds James of Kirby and the meals they shared, Winston decides to get the two back together and steals the sprig, leading James on a chase to the restaurant. Along the way, he resists several temptations of tasty food, pushing forward until finding Kirby. James and Kirby reconcile and eventually marry. As they move into a new house, Winston is content to eat normal dog food so long as his owner is happy.
One day, however, Winston meets a new addition to the family -- a son, who has a habit of dropping food. With a new family member to drop food for him, Winston's happy junk-food-filled life resumes as he enjoys the child's 1st birthday, reveling in falling birthday cupcakes. James and Kirby's family continues to grow, and they soon have a messy daughter as well.
Cast[]
- Tommy Snider as James
- Katie Lowes as Kirby
Additional Voices[]
- Stephen Apostolina
- Kirk Baily
- Ben Bledsoe
- David Cowgill
- Terri Douglas
- Fuschia!
- Jackie Gonneau
- Brandon Scott
- Adam Shapiro
- Mark Ann Stewart
Uncredited[]
Trivia[]
- Feast is referenced in Big Hero 6, in the form of graffiti on a wall that says "Φst". Φ is the Greek letter "phi", making it "phi-st", which is pronounced the same as "feast". Next to it are paw prints, referencing Winston.
- Katie Lowes, who voices Kirby in the short, also voices Abigail Callaghan in the theatrically connected feature film Big Hero 6.
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