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When the Day Breaks
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When the Day Breaks

1999-02-21 · 10 min · ★ 6.7

Animation

A rooster has his last biscuit for breakfast and goes grocery shopping. A pig prepares her breakfast (potato peelings, with the potatoes thrown in the trash) and discovers she needs more milk. Their paths cross, a lemon falls into the sewer, and both lives are changed.

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Directors
Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis
Production companies
ONF | NFB
Countries
Canada
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Released

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