

When the Day Breaks
1999-02-21 · 10 min · ★ 6.7
A rooster has his last biscuit for breakfast and goes grocery shopping. A pig prepares her breakfast (potato peelings, with the potatoes thrown in the trash) and discovers she needs more milk. Their paths cross, a lemon falls into the sewer, and both lives are changed.
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- Directors
- Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis
- Production companies
- ONF | NFB
- Countries
- Canada
- Status
- Released
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