| The Cosmic Eye | |
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| Directed by | Faith Hubley |
| Produced by | Faith Hubley |
| Starring | Dizzy Gillespie Maureen Stapleton Jack Warden |
| Music by | Benny Carter Elizabeth Swados Dizzy Gillespie Conrad Cummings William Russo |
Production company | Hubley Studio |
| Distributed by | Upfront |
Release date |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Cosmic Eye is a 1986 American animated independent [1] science fiction film directed by Faith Hubley and featuring the voices of Dizzy Gillespie, Maureen Stapleton and Jack Warden. [2]
A trio of homeward-bound space musicians, suffering from acute nostalgia on their space boat The Cosmic Eye, decided to take a turn over the Milky Way and sympathetically helping Earth while watching several films about contacting life in the cosmos and yearning for peace. [3]
The film was released on VHS months before theatrically playing in New York City on June 6, 1986. [4] It was released on VHS again in 1990 from Buena Vista Home Video, and 1993 by Lightyear Video.
Vincent Canby of The New York Times gave the film a mixed review, calling it “an unusually pretty film but, like its title, it's also a bit intimidating.” [4]
Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, writing that it “is as joyous and heartening a movie as you’ll find all year. This eye winks, flutters, stares unabashedly and sees to the heart.” [5]