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Storytime
UNITED STATES · 1979

Storytime

Terry Gilliam
anthropomorphic insects dark humor surrealism everyday absurdity mortality
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Synopsis

The first story-time segment is about a cheerful cockroach named Don, who scurries throughout his mansion home, walks beneath the floorboards and does unspeakable things in the darkness of the cupboard, before being splatted by somebody's foot. The second segment is about an ordinary man named Albert Einstein ("the only Albert Einstein not to have discovered the Theory of Relativity") whose hands

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