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How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days (1983) (TV)
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Perfection isn't all it's cracked up to be.Plot:
A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Not perfect, but almost... moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Wallace Shawn | ... | Professor Silverfish |
| Ilan Mitchell-Smith | ... | Milo Crimpley |
| Hermione Gingold | ... | Miss Sandwich |
| Sarah Boyd | ... | Jenny Hillard |
 | Kate McGregor-Stewart | ... | Mrs. Crimpley |
 | Lenny von Dohlen | ... | Erik Crimpley |
| Ned Boyd | ... | Frankie Crimpley |
| B.J. Barie | ... | Norbert Sandhill |
| John Rothman | ... | Contest Judge |
| Joey Ginza | ... | Mr. Yamata |
 | Jodi Long | ... | Mrs. Yamata |
| Merwin Goldsmith | ... | Principal |
| Seth Greenspan | ... | Mark |
| Tenney Walsh | ... | Andrea |
| Cassandra Murray | ... | Agnes |
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Great performance by Wallace Shawn and some good dialogue make this a good show. Originally aired as part of PBS's "Wonderworks" program, and based on a short novel by Daniel Manus Pinkwater. Milo is the perfect junior-high nerd without becoming a caricature, and Wallace Shawn plays his character as the pure caricature that the role calls for. And the message of the movie? Why try to be perfect? Just be yourself. If your kid doesn't quite fit in (but not in the violent shoot-up-his-school way), show them this video and they will feel a lot better about themselves. Highly recommended.