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Geri's Game

Geri's Game (1997)

  • 87% of users liked it
    (1,024 ratings)

John Lasseter and company set out on a mission to perfect human and cloth animation in this Academy Award-winning short film about a playful codger named Geri who challenges himself to a game of chess in the park. As the competition against himself begins to heat up, the eternally youthful chess… More

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Genres
Drama, Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy, Special Interest
In Theaters
Nov 25, 1997 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Steve Rhodes, Internet Reviews

    The effect is rather like speed-reading through a Roald Dahl novel.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Anthony L


    Geri's Game certainly doesn't represent the best of Pixar. It's a nice story, ok animation but we've all come to expect far more from them than this but that is to their credit.

  • Dean M


    I recognized a character in this Pixar short film from <i>Toy Story 2</i>. Geri sets up a chess game to play his greatest opponent - himself! Both the story and animations are of extraordinary quality. And also the editing is outstanding.

  • Cassie H


    Sweet Type Of Funny!

  • Bradley W


    I will never forget watching this as a kid

  • Matthew Y


    The best Pixar short film ever made (in my humble opinion). The film shows the elderly Geri playing a game of chess with himself. Humorously he gives different personalities and strategies to his two "selves" and when one looks cornered he tries to trick the other. A… More

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