Lassie (2005 film)
- Peter O'Toole: The Duke of Rudling
- Jonathan Mason: Joe Carraclough
- Samantha Morton: Sarah Carraclough
- John Lynch: Sam Carraclough
- Steve Pemberton: Hynes
- Hester Odgers: Cilla
- Jemma Redgrave: Daisy
- Peter Dinklage: Rowlie
- Gregor Fisher: Mapes
- Edward Fox: Colonel Hulton
- Kelly Macdonald: Jeanie
- Nicholas Lyndhurst: Buckle
- Gerry O'Brian: Watson
- Eamonn Hunt: Alf Patterson
- Jim Roche: miners
- John Standing: Frenchman
- Brian Pettifer: O'Donnell
- Paul Meade: policeman
- Jamie Lee: Tom
Lassie is a feature film in 2005 with the film Lassie dog as the main character. The Irish -French- British-American co-production is a remake of the first Lassie movie nostalgia of 1943. Latter is based on the short story Lassie Come Home of the British- American writer Eric Knight who on 17 December 1938 in the Saturday Evening post was published in 1940 and published as a novel.
Action
While in Yorkshire in the late 1930s, the Duke of Rudling prefer busy shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War with fox hunting, the miners are struggling with poverty. When the pit is closed, the parents of the little Joe Carraclough see forced the family dog , the collie Lassie, to the Duke to sell, they give his granddaughter Cilla.
But the unfortunate Lassie escapes and brings Joe as usual from school. When the enraged assistant to the Duke Lassie immediately pick up again and this time wants to flee again, bring Joe and his father the dog personally back again.
While Joe's mother unsuccessfully tried to comfort him, his father begs him to come to terms with the events.
Meanwhile, the Duke brings Lassie to Scotland to his other dogs. As Hynes, assistant to the Duke, Lassie wants to educate and thereby makes use of the belt, Cillie helps her to escape; Hynes is dismissed because of his rudeness. After Lassie is almost run over by a truck, they just escaped the police and flees again home.
While Joe's father is called away in the army, Cillie comes to boarding school and is struggling with the local drill. Also, she escapes, but is soon brought back to boarding school.
Lassie is trapped on the streets of Glasgow by animal scavengers and brought to the shelter. A young passer and also Present young man want Lassie from a shelter rescue, but Lassie escapes to the nearby courthouse and jump onto the roof of a wegfahrenden truck.
On the run, she joins a traveling showman and his dog. Move proposes Lassie two robbers to flight, above which case, however, the showman of the dog is killed. A little later the paths separate the two.
On Christmas Eve, completely exhausted Lassie reached their home. Hynes gets this time police assistance to take Lassie regain possession. Impressed by the perseverance of the dog, the Duke claims but, in this exhausted dog there could be no case to Lassie.
Joe's father gets a job as a Duke Dog supervisor. Joe and Cillie become friends and spend their time with Lassie and their offspring.
Awards
In the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards Award in 2007, the film won a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Family Movie (Live Action ) category.
In the same year, there were at the Irish Film and Television Awards IFTA an Award in the category Best Sound in Film / TV Drama (Peter Blayney, Patrick Drummond, John Fitzgerald, Mervyn Moore ) and an Audience Award nomination for Best Irish Film Category.
Also in 2007, the film for the Young Artist Award and was nominated in the categories Best While representation in a feature film - lead actor (Jonathan Mason) and Best International Family Film.
Reviews
" Remake of the classic Art book by Eric Knight. The staged in quiet rhythm family film about loyalty and friendship offers magnificent landscapes. "