A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) on Netflix
Twelve bakers have been murdered this year, and Wallace and Gromit have opened a bakery. Wallace falls for Piella Bakewell after a bicycle rescue, leaving Gromit to look into the case.
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Plot summary
Wallace and Gromit have turned 62 West Wallaby Street into a bakery, with ovens, robotic kneading arms, mixing bowls, flour on every surface and an old-fashioned windmill on the roof. Business at the bakery is booming. The news that twelve local bakers have been murdered this year troubles Gromit, though Wallace takes little notice of it. On a delivery, the pair rescue Piella Bakewell when the brakes of her bicycle seem to give way. Wallace becomes smitten with Piella, a former pin-up for the Bake-O-Lite bread company, and she redecorates their house, which infuriates Gromit. He also meets her nervous poodle, Fluffles.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
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- A Matter of Loaf and Death was the last Wallace & Gromit film made before Peter Sallis, the voice of Wallace since the series began, retired from the role in 2010.
- Director Nick Park said the BBC left the production almost entirely alone, a contrast he drew with DreamWorks Animation, which kept calling during Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit to demand changes.
- Nick Park cast Sally Lindsay as Piella Bakewell after hearing her voice by chance on the Radcliffe and Maconie Show on BBC Radio 2 while he was driving from Preston.
- A Matter of Loaf and Death was the first Aardman production made using the stop-motion animation software Stop-Motion Pro.
- The film leaked online before its BBC premiere: it was already on the Pirate Bay by December 3, 2008, and clips reached YouTube, with Aardman Animations later saying it had no idea how they got out.
- The BBC One Christmas idents built around Wallace & Gromit to promote the film impressed writer Russell T. Davies enough that he asked for similar idents to promote Doctor Who the following year.
- With 16.15 million viewers, A Matter of Loaf and Death was the highest-rated UK programme of 2008 and the highest-rated non-sporting broadcast in Britain since a 2004 episode of Coronation Street drew 16.3 million.
