Family Adventure: 4 Film Favorites [2 Discs]

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 2
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (Theatre Wide Screen)
• Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Mono
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Subtitle: Spanish, French, English, Thai, Korean
• 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:

  
       Chuck Connors - Porter Ricks
       Stephen Lang - Michael Tyler
       Alexander Michaletos - Xan
       Michael Moriarty - Ray Preston
       Luke Halpin - Sandy Ricks
       Blake Heron - Marty Preston
       Ryan Slater - Ryan Tyler
       Eamonn Walker - Ripkuna
       Campbell Scott - Peter
       Connie Scott - Kim Parker
       J. Madison Wright
       Hope Davis - Kristin
       Huang Fei
       Kathleen Maguire - Martha Ricks
       Scott Wilson - Judd Travers
       Ann Dowd - Louise Preston
       Jane Rose - Hettie White
       Joe Higgins - Mr. L.C. Porett
       Rod Steiger - Doc Wallace

• Director:

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

• Producer:

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

• Book Author:

  Carol Cawthra Hopcraft, Xan Hopcraft, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

• Screen Story:

  Ricou Browning, Jack Cowden, Carol Flint, Karen Janszen

• Screenwriter:

  Steven Alldredge, Laurice Elehwany, Karen Janszen, Dale Rosenbloom, Jeff Rothberg, Mark St. Germain, Arthur Weiss, John Wilcox

• Cinematographer:

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

• Composer (Music Score):

  George Acogny, John Debney, Joel Goldsmith, William Ross, Henry Vars

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Andy Wiskes

• Songwriter:

  Dunham, William Ross

• Editor:

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

• Production Designer:

  Amy B. Ancona, Johnny Breedt, John Willett

• Art Director:

  Willie Heslup

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, All Movie Guide

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