The Cosmic Eye

The Cosmic Eye is a 1986 American animated science fiction film directed by Faith Hubley and featuring the voices of Dizzy Gillespie, Maureen Stapleton and Jack Warden.Turner Classic Movies
==Plot==
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.Sundance InstituteBAM
==Voice cast==
*Dizzy Gillespie as Musician/Father Time
*Linda Atkinson as Musician
*Sam Hubley as Musician
*Maureen Stapleton as Mother Time
*Jack Warden as Rocko
==Release==
The film was released on VHS from Walt Disney Home Video in November 1985, but 7 months before the theatrically in New York City on June 6, 1986. It released on VHS again in 1990 from Buena Vista Home Video, and 1993 by Lightyear Video.
==Reception==
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.”
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.”
==See also==
*Moonbird - The 1959 Academy Award for Best Animated Short winner that is featured on the 1986 film
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Category:American animated science fiction films
Category:1980s English-language films
Category:1980s American films
Category:Compilation films