Round 4: Tossup 8

This was the first film by its director to feature cameos by his mentors Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. While a character in this film is being laughed at over the phone, the camera pans right to depict an oven mitt resembling a dog with its tongue sticking out. A character in this film reads a newspaper with the headline “disaster seen as catastrophe looms” while sitting beside a pool, moments before a farmer tells him he’s “right in the middle of the (*) road!” A movie within this film called Atomic Guidance features a song inspired by the 1951 public guidance film Duck and Cover. This 1999 film, which is set in Maine unlike its source novel by Ted Hughes, was pitched by its director with the line “what if a gun had a soul, and didn’t want to be a gun?” (10[1])For 10 points, name this Brad Bird film starring Vin Diesel as a kindhearted (10[1])robot. ■END■

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