''Little Suck-a-Thumb'' (1992) is a short film by David Kaplan. The film is a

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's ''

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''. It stars

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('' The Ballad of the Sad Café''), Evelyn Solann, and Jim Hilbert as the Great Tall Scissorman. ''Little Suck-a-Thumb'' won awards at the 1992

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, the 1992

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, and the 1993 Grenoble Film Festival. It was also awarded 2nd place at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts annual film festival and was shown as an Official Selection at the 1992 Munich International Festival of Film Schools. It has been used as instructional material for film students.

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* American short films 1992 films {{short-film-stub