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Format: Laserdisc
Dec 1994
Rated PG
Recording Mode: Dolby Surround
Sound: Stereo, Surround
92 min.
UPC: 013023428867 |
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Movie Description
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.
Synopsis
Lassie's back in this charming family film by director Daniel Petrie.
Film Notes
Scheduled for theatrical release July 22, 1994.
Recorded in Dolby Stereo, Spectral Recording.
Copyright 1994 Paramount Pictures.
Lassie's trainer, Robert Weatherwax, continues the tradition of his father, Rudd Weatherwax, of training the world's most famous dog. The current Lassie, an eighth generation descendent of the original, was accompanied by Bob Weatherwax when she made her professional debut at the 1993 Tournament of Roses Parade.
Winner of the 1995 Parent's Choice Award.
Industry Reviews
"...A stubbornly sweet, picturesque children's film....It gets some help from our memories..."
New York Times - p.C1 - Janet Maslin
"...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 - Mike Clark
"...Believably modern young people in a believably old-fashioned plot....Downright fetching." -- Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly - p.41 - Lisa Schwarzbaum
"...There's good feeling in this movie....LASSIE is a movie that's old-fashioned in a lot of the right ways..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (07/22/1994)
Quotations
"Best Friends Are Forever." -- marketing line for the film
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