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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
Based on	Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days! by Stephen Manes
Screenplay by	Bruce Harmon
Directed by	Joan Micklin Silver
Starring	Wallace Shawn Ilan Mitchell-Smith Hermione Gingold
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
Distributor	Highgate Pictures
Release
Original network	PBS
Original release	October 8, 1984 (1984-10-08)

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.

Cast

• Wallace Shawn as Professor Silverfish
• Ilan Mitchell-Smith as Milo Crimpley
• Hermione Gingold as Miss Sandwich
• Sarah Boyd as Jenny Hillard
• Kate McGregor-Stewart as Mrs. Crimpley
• Lenny Von Dohlen as Erik Crimpley
• Ned Boyd as Frankie Crimpley
• B.J. Barie as Norbert Sandhill
• John Rothman as Contest Judge
• Joey Ginza as Mr. Yamata
• Jodi Long as Mrs. Yamata

References

External links

• How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days at IMDb
• How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days at AllMovie
• How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days is available for free download at the Internet Archive

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