Cuckoo, Mr. Edgar!
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| French | Coucou, Monsieur Edgar! |
| Directed by | Pierre M. Trudeau |
| Written by | Pierre M. Trudeau Pierre-Michel Tremblay Denis Saint-Denis |
| Produced by | Marc Bertrand Thérèse Descary |
| Edited by | José Heppell |
| Music by | Louis Gagné |
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Running time | 13 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
Cuckoo, Mr. Edgar! (French: Coucou, Monsieur Edgar!) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Pierre M. Trudeau and released in 1999. The film centres on Mr. Edgar, a mechanical bird in a cuckoo clock left inside an abandoned house, who is forced to adapt to the demands of fatherhood when a storm causes three eggs to tumble into the house's living room which soon hatch into baby birds.
The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 21st Genie Awards, and a Jutra Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 2nd Jutra Awards.