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Based on Eric Knight's 1938 novel about a trusty pooch, this film is set on the eve of WWII in a Yorkshire mining town. The Carraclough family is forced to sell Lassie to the Duke of Rudling when the family falls on hard times. She is determined to defy the odds and return to her home and the boy she loves. So begins an incredible adventure, set against a stunning series of British landscapes that sees Lassie facing dangers natural and human and finding help in unexpected places as she makes her way across the country to reach home in time for Christmas. Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, John Lynch, and Peter Dinklage star.
"A heartwarming and moving adventure..." Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter
"About as good as a Lassie movie can be." Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly
"Lassie is a dog movie even non-dog lovers will lap up." Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS SEPTEMBER 1, 2006The LASSIE tales are given a 21st-century update with this feature film, which finds a poor family having to sell their beloved Lassie due to financial problems. Lassie has other ideas, however, and plots an escape from her new owners so she can reunite with her former family.
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Release Information
| | Studio: CLASSIC MEDIA |
| Release Date: 11/14/2006 |
| Running Time: 99 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 79640 | | UPC: 00796019796408 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"[A]bout as good as a LASSIE movie can be. Taking after the original 1940 novel, the film's set in pre-WWII Britain..." -- Grade: A- 09/08/2006 p.139Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- "Writer/director Charles Sturridge understands not only the overlying emotions but also the underlying currents of the drama....The cast is strong." 10/01/2006 42 The Observer 8 of 10
Eric Knight is remembered, if at all, as the author of the 1940 bestseller Lassie Come Home. Now almost a piece of folklore, it's a heartwarming tale of a handsome brown-and-white collie dog sold by its impoverished owner, a Yorkshire miner, to a local aristocrat, who takes her to northern Scotland, whence she makes a heroic return journey back to her 10-year-old master Joe. It was successfully filmed by MGM in 1943, and followed by half-a-dozen sequels and a long-running TV series...The villain of the piece is the duke's dogkeeper, who's been obediently doing his master's dirty work. The hopes for a future where a more just society will prevail are forgotten, which is a pity as Eric Knight's last completed work was the script for World of Plenty, a celebrated documentary on the creation of a more equitable postwar world. - Philip French
Reel.com 7 of 10
A sweetly old-fashioned, tail-wagging charmer of a family film, Lassie bounds across the screen with sincerely heartwarming results in Charles Sturridge's faithful adaptation of Eric Knight's 1938 novel, Lassie Come Home. Backed by a fine, two-legged cast of British acting talent, the Ÿber-collie will likely move even the most hardened cynics to tears as she embarks on an epic journey to reunite with her young master. - Tim Knight
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