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 (10[1])its director with the line “what if a gun had a soul, and didn’t want to be a gun?” For 10 points, name this (10[1])Brad Bird film starring Vin Diesel as a kindhearted (10[1])robot. ■END■

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