Stanley
Cast
No credited cast is listed for this film.
Credits
Written by: 
Suzie Templeton
Music: Sam Butterfield Jonny Templeton
Editing: Tony Fish Suzie Templeton
Produced by: Suzie Templeton
Plot
Stanley, who has the aged and disheveled look of a pensioner living on little, attends lovingly to a large cabbage, the only thing growing in his brick-walled back yard. His wife, meanwhile, is in the kitchen with her cleaver, dispatching red meat and trussed chickens with thunderous whacks.
Sinekatalog’s take
A darkly comic animated short of two contrasting domestic worlds: a man devoted to his cabbage and a wife busy with a cleaver. Its tactile, grotesque style carries more mood than plot. A striking oddity for those who enjoy British stop-motion with a macabre edge.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.9 / 10 (102 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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