Everybody Rides the Carousel

Everybody Rides the Carousel

72 mins | Animation | June 8, 1975

Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.

Everybody Rides the Carousel

72 mins | Animation | June 8, 1975

Everybody Rides the Carousel
Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Hubley Studios
Original title Everybody Rides the Carousel
Directors John Hubley
Writers Faith Hubley, John Hubley

Cast

Alvin Epstein

as Prologue (voice)

Jenny Lumet

as Stage 4 (voice)

Meryl Streep

as Stage 6 (voice)

Pau Casals

as Stage 7 (voice)

Dinah Manoff

as Stage 7 (voice)

Lawrence Pressman

as Stage 7 (voice)

John Randolph

as Stage 7 (voice)

Jack Gilford

as Stage 8 (voice)

Juanita Moore

as Stage 8 (voice)

Dee Dee Bridgewater

as Stage 7 (voice)

Lou Jacobi

as Stage 1 (voice)

Judith Coburn

as Stage 1 (voice)

Ray Hubley

as Stage 1 (voice)

Lane Smith

as Stage 1 (voice)

Eleanor Wilson

as Stage 1 (voice)

Charles Levin

as Stage 6 (voice)