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In this Lassie story the Turner family leave their city home for the wilds of Virginia. Everyone finds the settling in difficult, especially teenager Matt, who feels lost and alone in his new surroundings. Their lives take another turn when a homeless collie dog becomes part of their family...

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EAN5014437820235

eBay Product ID (ePID)3953986

Product Key Features

ActorJon Tenney, Frederic Forrest, Helen Slater, Tom Guiry, Richard Farnsworth

Film/TV TitleLassie

DirectorDaniel Petrie

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageArabic\Bulgarian\Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\German\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Romanian\Swedish\Turkish

Run Time91 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.78 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2002

FormatDVD

FranchiseLassie

FeaturesWidescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles

GenreChildrens, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

CertificateU

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Hearing ImpairedEnglish

Additional InformationLassie, 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.

ReviewsEntertainment Weekly - "...Believably modern young people in a believably old-fashioned plot....Downright fetching." -- Rating: A-, USA Today - ...Sit back and be lulled by Kenneth MacMillan's photography of woods and waterfalls in the summer's most housebroken movie..., New York Times - ...A stubbornly sweet, picturesque children's film....It gets some help from our memories...

Dubbing LanguagesGerman\Danish\Swedish\Dutch\Czech\Hungarian

Format DescriptionDVD 5

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1\Surround

Movie/TV TitleLassie