2012 · animation · family · comedy
Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"
Directed by David Silverman5m2012
Maggie must navigate an eventful first day in daycare. At the Ayn Rand School for Tots, Maggie is diagnosed with average intelligence. Barred from the gifted children, she longs to escape from her glue-guzzling classmates. But when a lonely caterpillar befriends her, she makes it her mission to save it from a ruthless butterfly smashing toddler.
Our read: Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare" (2012) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded animation · family · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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