Early Bloomer

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{{Infobox film

| name = Early Bloomer

| image = Early Bloomer poster.jpg

| caption = Poster

| director = Kevin J. Johnson

| producer = Sande Scoredos

| writer = Kevin J. Johnson

| starring =

| music = Mark Mancina

| editing = Guy T. Wiedmann

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| distributor = Sony Pictures Releasing

| released = {{Film date|2003|05|09|with Daddy Day Care}}

| runtime = 3 minutes 42 seconds

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

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Early Bloomer is a 2003 American animated short film produced by Sony Pictures Imageworks. It was created and directed by Kevin J. Johnson. It was the studio's second short film after The ChubbChubbs!.{{cite web | author=Tito A. Belgrave | url=http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=1559 | title=Making Waves with Early Bloomer | publisher=CGSociety.org | date=2003-09-08 | accessdate=2010-11-05 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060924150247/http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=1559 | archive-date=2006-09-24 | url-status=dead }}

Plot

The 3-minute film is following a tadpole who grows legs before the other tadpoles and is teased for it until the others unexpectedly grow legs too. He unexpectedly grows arms, which marks the end of the film.

Release

Early Bloomer was theatrically released on May 9, 2003 along with Daddy Day Care. On September 23, 2003, the short was also released as special feature on the Daddy Day Care DVD.{{cite web | author=Aaron Beierle | url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/7566/daddy-day-care/ | title=Daddy Day Care | publisher=DVDTalk | date=2003-09-23 | accessdate=2010-11-05}}

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