A Close Shave, also known as Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave, is a 1995 British stop-motion animated short film produced by Aardman Animations. Directed by Nick Park and written by Park and Bob Baker, it is the third installment in the Wallace & Gromit series, following A Grand Day Out (1989) and The Wrong Trousers (1993). In the film, Wallace (Peter Sallis) and Gromit are operating a window cleaning service, when Wallace falls for the owner of the local wool shop, Wendolene Ramsbottom (Anne Reid). The duo find that Wendolene is an unwitting accomplice in a sheep rustling operation operated by her malevolent pooch, Preston.

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Wallace and his dog, Gromit, operate a window cleaning business. Wallace falls for the wool shopkeeper Wendolene Ramsbottom. Her sinister dog, Preston, rustles sheep to supply the shop. After a lost sheep wanders into the house, Wallace places him in his Knit-o-Matic, a machine which shears sheep and knits the wool into jumpers. Wallace names the sheep Shaun.

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