An Inconvenient Penguin

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An Inconvenient Penguin
Directed byTodd Lampe
Produced byPrecipice Productions
StarringLance Reifschneider
Rasika Mathur
Jenny Mollen
Eric Matikosh
Release date
  • August 11, 2008 (2008-08-11)
Running time
20 minutes

An Inconvenient Penguin is a short film, released online in Amazon's UnBox store on August 11, 2008. The film is a spoof of An Inconvenient Truth and March of the Penguins . It was produced by Precipice Productions and stars Lance Reifschneider, Rasika Mathur, Jenny Mollen, and Eric Matikosh.

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Penguins are invading the shores of California causing overcrowding, excessive warmth and increasing crabbiness in general. Senator Al Gore warns us of the impending doom and what we can do to change the threat.

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