Family Adventure: 4 Film Favorites [2 Discs]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Flipper The Amazing Panda Adventure Shiloh Duma

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 2
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (Theatre Wide Screen)
• Audio: Dolby Digital Mono
• Features:
  • Flipper: Classic cartoon, 2 theatrical trailers
  • The Amazing Panda Adventure - A Bear's Life challenge, Musical montage, Theatrical trailer
  • Shiloh: Introduction by Roger Ebert, Cast/filmmaker interviews, Theatrical trailer
  • Duma - Theatrical trailer

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Alexander Michaletos - Xan
       Blake Heron - Marty Preston
       Campbell Scott - Peter
       Hope Davis - Kristin
       Ann Dowd - Louise Preston
       Joe Higgins - Mr. L.C. Porett
       George Applewhite - Sheriff Rogers
       Adelaide Shabalala - Medicine Woman - Suliwa

• Director:

  James B. Clark, Christopher Cain, Dale Rosenbloom, Carroll Ballard

• Producer:

  Ivan Tors, Gary Foster, Lee Rich, Dylan Sellers, John Wilcox, Dale Rosenbloom, Zane W. Levitt, E.K. Gaylord II, Hunt Lowry, John Wells, Kristin Harms, Stacy Cohen

• Screen Story:

  Ricou Browning

• Screenwriter:

  Arthur Weiss

• Screen Story:

  Jack Cowden

• Screenwriter:

  Laurice Elehwany, Jeff Rothberg, Steven Alldredge, John Wilcox, Dale Rosenbloom

• Book Author:

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

• Screen Story:

  Karen Janszen

• Screenwriter:

  Karen Janszen

• Screen Story:

  Carol Flint

• Screenwriter:

  Mark St. Germain

• Book Author:

  Carol Cawthra Hopcraft, Xan Hopcraft

• Cinematographer:

  Lamar Boren, Joseph Brun, Jack N. Green, Scott Ranson, Frank Byers, Werner Maritz

• Composer (Music Score):

  Henry Vars

• Songwriter:

  Dunham

• Composer (Music Score):

  William Ross

• Songwriter:

  William Ross

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Andy Wiskes

• Composer (Music Score):

  Joel Goldsmith, George Acogny, John Debney

• Editor:

  Warren Adams, Jack Hofstra, Mark Westmore, T.M. Christopher

• Production Designer:

  John Willett, Amy B. Ancona, Johnny Breedt

• Art Director:

  Willie Heslup

• Executive Producer:

  Gabriella Martinelli, Carl Borack, Mark Yellen, Doug Claybourne

• Costume Designer:

  Charmain Schreiner, Jayne Forbes

• Set Decorator:

  Flo Ballack

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Colin McFarlane, Douglas Murray, Ann Kroeber

• Special Effects:

  Rick Baker

• First Assistant Director:

  Doug Claybourne, Peter Sherlock

• Stunts:

  Mickey Gilbert

• Casting:

  Marion Dougherty, Laura Schiff, Junie Lowry-Johnson, Carrie Hilton, Scott Genkinger, Benedicte Roumega, Christa Shamberger

• Co-Executive Producer:

  David Wicht

• Animal Trainer/Wrangler:

  Jules Sylvester

• Second Unit Director:

  Michael Buckley

• Second Unit Camera:

  Michael Buckley

• Co-Executive Producer:

  Vlokkie Gordon

• Compositor:

  Eddie Addinal, Tallen Chow, Jean Du Plessis, Brett Manson, Cyril Schumann, Jay Stanners, Mark Thomas-Stubbs

• Painter:

  Richard Ntuli

• Key Second Assistant Director:

  Dale Butler

REVIEW:

• Boy-and-his-dog movies don't get much more prototypical than Shiloh. In fact, it may surprise viewers that Shiloh was released as recently as 1996, since it's quaint and old-fashioned enough to have come out 30 years earlier. But something about Shiloh found an audience, or, at least, enough of one to prompt sequels in 1999 and 2006. The film is quite straightforward -- hunter abuses dog, dog finds boy, boy embraces dog, hunter tries to get dog back, boy fights to save dog from hunter's evil clutches. As this sequence takes a surprisingly long time to play out, other details color the film in, such as the fact that the nasty hunter (Scott Wilson) was mistreated by his father, and that the kindly veterinarian (Rod Steiger) lost a son and daughter-in-law to a car accident. So the film is not quite as fluffy as most live-action children's movies, but it does share with them a certain stagnant quality that has generally afflicted the live-action kiddie fare released by Disney, for example. Characterized by the dusty tones of a small country farm town, Shiloh lacks the colorful pop that makes animated movies so popular with the demographic. There's no doubt that Shiloh has its heart in the right place -- maybe too much. Parents probably appreciate it more than their kids, thinking it will serve a function for their kids that it probably doesn't. The dog sure is cute, but the modern generation of children grows increasingly less satisfied with such folksy simplicity, especially once they're old enough to choose for themselves. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi