The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics Poster

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965)

NR Dec 15, 1965 Animation, Family 0h 10m
73%
User Score
7.5/10

Overview

Animated work detailing the unrequited love that a line has for a dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for a lively squiggle.

Chuck Jones
Director
Norton Juster
Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Robert Morley
Robert Morley

Narrator (voice)

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on January 29, 2025

We don't always get the same narration so I rarely mention it, but here Robert Morley provides a lovely tone to his alliterative narration depicting this most unlikely of love stories. The straight line, dependable and steady, loves the dot. The dot, suitably dotty, fancies the innovative and lively squiggle. This neglect attracts the attention of his fellow lines, but try as they might to make him see sense, he remains wistfully obsessed. Now he just spends him time imagining himself as a much more active and noble creation, but in the end - a line, is a line, is a line... This self deception is no good. Maybe he might as well just admit defeat? He will never be squiggle. Maybe he can be an angle, though? A series of the things? Might dot like this new talent? Well he'd best practice til ...

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