Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
Film poster
Directed byChris Lavis
Maciek Szczerbowski
Clyde Henry Productions
Produced bySpike Jonze
Vincent Landay
Marcy Page
StarringMeryl Streep
Spike Jonze
Forest Whitaker
Jack Gross Whitaker
Edited byChris Lavis
Music byJean-Frédéric Messier
Distributed byWarner Home Video
National Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • March 2, 2010 (2010-03-02)
Running time
23 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life is a 2010 Canadian live-action/animated short film directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, collectively known as Clyde Henry Productions, and features the voices of Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker and Spike Jonze. Jonze also served as producer along with Vincent Landay and Marcy Page. Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life was produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with Warner Home Video.[1][2]

It is based on the 1967 children's book of the same name written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak about the fictional adventures of his pet dog Jennie.

  1. ^ "Madame Tutli-Putli animators revisit Sendak tale". CBC News. 16 February 2010. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
  2. ^ Frenette, Brad (16 February 2010). "Montreal filmmakers team up with Spike Jonze and NFB for new Sendak short". National Post. Retrieved 21 December 2010.[permanent dead link]