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Lassie

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Rated 3.0 stars
Average rating
(64%)
 
Starring: Thomas Guiry | Helen Slater | Jon Tenney | Frederic Forrest | Richard Farnsworth | Tom Guiry | Brittany Boyd | Michelle Williams | Charlie Hofheimer | Clayton Barclay Jones | Yvonne Brisendine
Director: Daniel Petrie
Studio: PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 91 mins
Genres: Action/Adventure | Family
Languages: English
Dubbed: Czech, Danish, Dutch, German, Hungarian, Swedish
Hearing-impaired: English
Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish
Released: October 14, 2002

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.

Highest rated reviews

6 out of 6 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5.0 stars
A must for Lassie fans old and new. 1/12/05

carol from Rochdale, Lancashire. England., 2nd December, 2005

The whole family loved this film. My girls had never seen Lassie before this and was moaning when i made them watch it. 'A stupid film about a dog' is what they said about it. They were glued to the television screen, and the tears came at the end as they did with me when i was there age. If you got children or you enjoyed Lassie as a child then you should rent this movie.

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3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 4.0 stars
Good Family Fun

A Customer from Cromer,Norfolk,England, 2nd January, 2005

A traditional story of good versus evil,Lassie is the heroine with a few tears,moments of fear and adoration along the way.A movie to sit down with small children upwards with hot Choclate,tissues and choclates

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 4.0 stars
A furry hero

joethevolcano from Worcestershire, 19th October, 2005

Amazingly fast paced really. A lot happens right from the outset, and there's a wonderful change in character for our hero, courtesy of our other hero (the furry kind).

Even the pastiche at the begining where the daughter's watching an old Lassie episode. There's the Father Christmas discussion. A great parallel.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5.0 stars
worth a look

JULIE NEWMAN from Runcorn, 2nd August, 2005

good family film with lots of action well worth viewing

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Most recent reviews

Rated 2.0 stars
Average

Cailan from , 7th September, 2009

An ok film with good acting. Unfortunately not the heartrencher we expect from a Lassie film

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Rated 3.0 stars
Lassie (1994)

A Customer from Bexley, 28th July, 2009

My children aged 5 and 2 were not interested in this, butr my husband and I really enjoyed it haha

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Rated 5.0 stars
Lassie 1994

A Customer from Norwich, 10th May, 2009

A heart-warming story that brought tears to my eyes! The best dog story I ever have seen! Now I know why my mum loved it when she was little and always cries when she hears the music still! Georgina aged 8 and a half.

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Rated 5.0 stars
great family movie

A Customer from Brum, UK, 25th November, 2006

great family movie, kids loved it, i found it very enjoyable also

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