Writer/director Charles Sturridge adapts the heart-warming story with strict attention to its modest emotional underpinnings of family, devotion, and a beautiful collie.
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04/20/09
Lassie (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 65
Fresh: 60
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Consensus: A beautifully-made retelling of the classic border collie tale, one need not be a dog-lover to fall for Lassie.
Theatrical Release:Sep 1, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $548,277
Synopsis: Eric Wright's classic novel about a boy and his dog is resurrected in this charming adaptation from Charles Sturridge (BRIDESHEAD REVISITED), which is a far cry from the Americanized TV show of the... [More]
Starring: Lassie, Samantha Morton, Peter O'Toole, Robert Carr
Director: Charles Sturridge
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01/20/07
An ode to the beleaguered people who face hardships, physical and emotional, with hopeful optimism.
12/30/06
Dog and movie lovers, take note: Lassie has come home.
12/26/06
Top CriticIt's a welcome throwback to the carefully crafted family films of the studio era.
12/26/06
Top CriticA sweetly old-fashioned, tail-wagging charmer of a family film.
09/23/06
Lassie déjà vu filmed in the magnificent British Isles with more than enough animal stampedes to enthrall an entire theatre of ten year olds, and their parents.
09/15/06
Knows that kids live in a grown-up world, that they are not isolated from such realities as unemployment or war, and can relate to the problems of adult characters as well as those of children and animals.
09/08/06
...an utterly beguiling success.
09/07/06
I think just one of the best family films of the year.
09/05/06
Top CriticTerrific performances by those with fur and without.
09/02/06
Lassie proves to be top dog in her latest feature film.
09/02/06
Top Critic...The collie that became a star back in 1943 can still make you cry and cheer in the all-new Lassie.
09/02/06
Top CriticIf that doesn't bring a tear to your eye, then you're a robot with cross-wired circuitry.
09/02/06
It plays your lacrimal glands like a violin, but honorably so.
09/01/06
It's such a relief to settle into a film that lets dogs be dogs, children be children, and old-fashioned movies be old-fashioned movies.
09/01/06
There is an unabashed old-fashioned quality to the story-telling, not quaint, not fusty, but very much of another era -- and what a relief that is.
09/01/06
Top CriticIt's a rare work of substance, simplicity, and grace that deserves to be mentioned among the best features crafted for younger viewers in the last twenty years.
09/01/06
The 1943 Lassie Come Home, starring then-child actors Roddy McDowall and Elizabeth Taylor as Joe and Cilla, is widely considered the gold standard to which all dog movies should aspire, but Sturridge's remake is a fine film in its own right.
09/01/06
Lassie has a fine cast, lots of calendar-pretty shots of Lassie in different seasons and a dog-owned-by-many-different-people plot borrowed from David Copperfield.
09/01/06
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