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! by Stephen Manes. It stars Wallace Shawn, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Hermione Gingold, and is about a twelve-year-old boy named Milo, a hopeless klutz who happens upon a mysterious advertisement in the paper for becoming a perfect person. 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 perfection is not all it's cracked up to be.
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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! by Stephen Manes |
Screenplay by | Bruce Harmon |
Directed by | Joan Micklin Silver |
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Music by | David Frank |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Executive producer | Frank Doelger |
Producer | Mark R. Gordon |
Cinematography | Barry Sonnenfeld |
Editor | Jay Freund |
Running time | 58 minutes |
Production company | Learning Corporation of America |
Distributor | Highgate Pictures |
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Original network | PBS |
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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.
Films directed by Joan Micklin Silver | |
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