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| How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days | |
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| Based on | Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! byStephen Manes |
| Teleplay by | Bruce Harmon |
| Directed by | Joan Micklin Silver |
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| Music by | David Frank |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Frank Doelger |
| Producer | Mark R. Gordon |
| Cinematography | Barry Sonnenfeld |
| Editor | Jay Freund |
| Running time | 58 minutes |
| Production company | Learning Corporation of America |
| Original release | |
| Network | PBS |
| Release | October 8, 1984 (1984-10-08) |
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days is a 1984 American television family comedy film directed by Joan Micklin Silver and written by Bruce Harmon, based on the 1982 children's book Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!byStephen Manes. It stars Wallace Shawn, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Hermione Gingold.
The film first aired on PBS on October 4, 1984,[1] as part of the series WonderWorks, and was regularly shown on The Disney Channel in the mid-1980s.
The film depicts a twelve-year-old boy named Milo, a hopeless klutz who happens upon a mysterious advertisement in the paper for becoming a perfect person. On offer is a three-day course devised by a peculiar man, Dr. Silverfish. Milo enrolls and manages to complete the strange tasks. Only after completing the course does Milo realize that perfection is a lot more boring than he thought it was (mainly because it involves never doing anything so as not to make mistakes).
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