Okay so Lassie is not going to be everyone's cup of tea but I like it. The idea of a dog who thinks it is a human is quite appealing really. It's the sort of things that kids dream of: fun adventures in the summer sun, a pet that calls for help and instinctively knows when there is trouble ... Read review
The dog everyone loves now leaps into the '90s in this all-new, exciting, updated version ... more
of Lassie!Determined to start a new life in the country, the Turner family - Dad, stepmum, little Jennifer and teenager Matt - leaves the city for the wilds of Vi...
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of pooches Lassie Come Home the film is set on the eve of World War II in a Yorkshire mining town in northern England. The Carraclough family fall on hard times and have to sell Lassie to the Duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole). Transported to the Duke's remote castle in the north of Scotland Lassie is determined to escape from the clutches of the Duke and his evil trainer in an effort to make her way home for Christmas and return to the family she loves...
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the death of his uncle the 14-year-old hero is forced by the Special Operations Division of Britain's secret intelligence service MI6 into a mission which will save millions of lives... Dreamer (Dir. John Gatins) (2005): Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) was once a great horseman whose gifts as a trainer are now being wasted on making other men's fortunes. Sonador called 'Sonya' was once a great horse whose promising future on the racetrack was suddenly cut short by a career-ending broken leg. Considered as good as dead to her owner who also happens to be Ben's boss Sonya is given to Ben as severance pay along with his walking papers. Now it will take the unwavering faith and determination of Ben's young daughter Cale (Dakota Fanning) to bring these two damaged souls together in a quest for a seemingly impossible goal: to win the breeders' Cup Classic. However the true miracle might be that in helping this injured horse what they are actually healing is their own family... Lassie (Dir. ) (2005): Based on Eric Knight's 1938 novel about the most trustworthy of pooches Lassie Come Home the film is set on the eve of World War II in a Yorkshire mining town in northern England. The Carraclough family fall on hard times and have to sell Lassie to the Duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole). Transported to the Duke's remote castle in the north of Scotland Lassie is determined to escape from the clutches of the Duke and his evil trainer in an effort to make her way home for Christmas and return to the family she loves...
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Advantages: classic kids film Disadvantages: Only if you hate dogs
Okay so Lassie is not going to be everyone's cup of tea but I like it. The idea of a dog who thinks it is a human is quite appealing really. It's the sort of things that kids dream of: fun adventures in the summer sun, a pet that calls for help and instinctively knows when there is trouble about. At least it is a bit more believable than Batman; who in their right mind walks about wearing their underwear outside their trousers ?
Okay so Lassie is not going to be everyone's cup of tea but I like it. The idea of a dog who thinks it is a human is quite appealing really. It's the sort of things that kids dream of: fun adventures in the summer sun, a pet that calls for help and instinctively knows when there is trouble about. At least it is a bit more believable than Batman; who in their right mind walks about wearing their underwear outside their trousers ?
If you enjoy a good half hearted adventure watch this film. If you hate dogs then don't.
Advantages: Good clean fun . Disadvantages: No blood , guts and gore .
...has to be Lassie.
Lassie is the most adorable, intelligent collie dog I have ever seen. I love the way the humans who appear in the films and TV shows were easily out shone by the main star.
The trials and tribulations the poor dog went through over the years were amazing. People would get stuck in a cave and Lassie would make her way to the nearest human who would of course know exactly what she was saying when she barked at them.
In Lassie come ... ...him.
The other Lassie films all share similar story lines but don’t be deterred by this if you can find one to hire or see one advertised make sure you either tape it or hire it and it will become a family favourite filled with all the drama, humour, romance and emotion you could wish for.
The loyalty and companionship shared between Lassie and her owners is truly humbling. If only life was like films Eh.
Lassie Come Home, 1943
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Advantages: Lovely performances, a nice sense of scale and good, clean family fun Disadvantages: Some swear-words and continuity errors creep in
When the local pit in a Yorkshire mining village closes, Lassie's owners have no choice but to sell their dog to the local landowner. Then the Duke takes her away to his Scottish estate. But Lassie will go to any lengths to be reunited with her beloved boy, even if it means walking all the way from Scotland, running into obstacles at every turn.
Whenever I think of Lassie I am reminded of the TV show I saw as a child, so I always assumed the character was American. However, the original book was written by British ex-pat Eric Knight while pining for the wilds of Yorkshire in sunny California. So this new version is bringing Lassie home for real. Well, sort of seeing as the majority was shot in the Isle of Man and Ireland. Writer-director Charles Sturridge has breathed new life into an old favourite but without deviating from ...
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Advantages: Brings back memorys of child hood. Disadvantages: Kids want to watch it all the time.
I remembered going to see this Walt Disney Classic The Fox And The Hound at the pictures with my dad when I was just a little lassie. So when I was able to pick up this DVD on line for as little as £9.49 delivered I just had to get it for my two toddlers(4+3)
For those people that havent been as lucky to see this film it is a must even if you dont have children.
It's all about a little fox and a puppy hound that meet up in the wood's and play and have so much fun. That they become best of friends not knowing that they were supposed to be enemies.
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"...Believably modern young people in a believably old-fashioned plot....Downright fetching." -- Rating: A- (Entertainment Weekly, p.41, 12/08/1994)
"...A stubbornly sweet, picturesque children's film....It gets some help from our memories..." (New York Times, p.C1, 22/07/1994)
"...Sit back and be lulled by Kenneth MacMillan's photography of woods and waterfalls in the summer's most housebroken movie..." (USA Today, p.5D, 22/07/1994)
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Lassie, the famous collie, returns in director Daniel Petrie's updated feature-length family adventure. Baltimore living hasn't agreed with Steve Turner (Jon Tenney). He's been having job trouble for months, and now he's fed up with the filth and crime. So he and his family move to his deceased wife's ancestral family farm in Virginia's lush Shenandoah Valley, population 148. Driving through the countryside, Steve and his new wife, Laura (Helen Slater), stop at the scene of a car accident where they discover a beautiful, newly orphaned collie that they name Lassie. Without hesitation, Lassie (a descendant of the original Lassie of television fame) adopts the Turner family, transforming their son, Matt (Thomas Guiry), from an MTV generation butthead into a sensitive explorer of unspoiled farmland. Matt and his little sister, Jennifer (Brittany Boyd), have trouble adjusting to their new rural hometown but with Lassie's help they soon discover the beautiful secrets of their farm and even begin to repair the tense relationship with their new stepmother. Lassie also helps Matt to romance April (Michelle Williams, in her film debut), a young local girl. All is well until Steve has a run-in with Sam Garland (Frederic Forrest), an ornery sheep-ranching neighbor who is determined to make Turner family life miserable. Lassie and the Turners unite to fight the corrupt Garland empire in this rousing and fun-loving adventure.
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