Wall-E

Director: Andrew Stanton

2008 / 98min / DCP

It’s the year 2805 CE, and on a despoiled Earth that’s been abandoned by humanity, the eponymous waste-collecting robot—the name stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth Class—goes about the lonesome monotony of his daily rounds of tidying the trash heaps, a routine broken when he encounters (and falls for) a search robot named EVE, and discovers the key to rendering the planet inhabitable again. A charming and endlessly inventive odyssey through the cosmos, and a state-of-the-art animation that owes more than a little to the silent comedy.

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios/20th Century