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Lassie (2005)

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 68
Fresh: 63 | Rotten: 5

A beautifully-made retelling of the classic collie tale, one need not be a dog-lover to fall for Lassie.

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Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 0

A beautifully-made retelling of the classic collie tale, one need not be a dog-lover to fall for Lassie.

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Everyone's favorite collie returns to the screen -- and to her native home back in Britain -- in director Charles Sturridge's faithful adaptation of author Eric Knight's sentimental kid and canine novel Lassie Come Home. When Lassie saves a fox from the hunting hounds of the duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole), the captivated nobleman becomes obsessed with the idea of purchasing the collie for his adoring granddaughter Cilla (Hester Odgers). Unfortunately for Rudling, the pooch already has a loving

PG, 1 hr. 40 min.

Action & Adventure, Kids & Family

Directed By: Charles Sturridge

In Theaters: Sep 1, 2006 Wide

On DVD: Nov 14, 2006

Box Office:$0.5M

Roadside/Samuel Goldwyn Films

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Cast

Peter O'Toole
The Duke of Rudling
Samantha Morton
Sarah Carraclough
John Lynch
Sam Carraclough
Peter Dinklage
Rowlie
Steve Pemberton
Eddie Hynes
Jemma Redgrave
Daisy
Edward Fox
Colonel Hulton
John Standing
Colonel French
Gregor Fisher
Mapes
Brian Pettifer
O'Donnell
Kelly Macdonald
Jeanie
Jamie Lee
Tom
Robert Hardy
Mr. Justice Murray
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Buckles
Jonathan Mason
Joe Carraclough
Hester Odgers
Cilla
Gerry O'Brien
Watson
Eamonn Hunt
Alf Patterson
Jim Roche
Miner
Gabrielle Lloyd
Miss Branson
Paul Meade
Policeman
Susie Lamb
Martha
Terence Orr
Butler
Alec Heggie
Truck Driver
Finlay Welsh
Scottish Policeman
May Veale Smith
Mother
Samatha McShane
Nell
Ken Drury
Campbell
Robert Carr
McBane
Angela Thorne
Doctor Gull
Christine Ozanne
Martron
Dermot Ward
Court Usher
Alan Stanford
Defence Barrister
David Parnell
Sergeant of the Court
Celyn Jones
Snickers
Peter Halliday
Vicar
Peter Wight
Doctor Jarrett the Vet
Ian Mercer
Yorkshire Policeman

Critic Reviews for Lassie

All Critics (70) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (64) | Rotten (5) | DVD (3)

Dog and movie lovers, take note: Lassie has come home.

December 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune

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Michael Wilmington

Chicago Tribune

Top Critic

It's a welcome throwback to the carefully crafted family films of the studio era.

December 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

I think just one of the best family films of the year.

September 5, 2006 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Lassie proves to be top dog in her latest feature film.

September 2, 2006 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic

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Kathy Cano Murillo

Arizona Republic

Top Critic

...The collie that became a star back in 1943 can still make you cry and cheer in the all-new Lassie.

September 2, 2006 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News

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Nancy Churnin

Dallas Morning News

Top Critic

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.

September 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Slate

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Dana Stevens

Slate

Top Critic

Schmaltzy return for classic cinema canine.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Jane Boursaw

Common Sense Media

This story of a boy and his dog comes home to its roots in Yorkshire with a beautifully sensitive and traditional rendering. Using the original 1938 short story as its source, writer & director Charles Sturridge %u2013 best known for his superb work on Br

October 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Screenwize

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Simon Weaving

Screenwize

Writer/director Charles Sturridge adapts the heart-warming story with strict attention to its modest emotional underpinnings of family, devotion, and a beautiful collie.

April 20, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

An ode to the beleaguered people who face hardships, physical and emotional, with hopeful optimism.

December 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies

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Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

A sweetly old-fashioned, tail-wagging charmer of a family film.

September 23, 2006 Comment

Timothy Knight

Reel.com

Lassie d�j� 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.

September 15, 2006 Comment

Ron Wilkinson

Monsters and Critics

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.

September 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Decent Films Guide

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Steven D. Greydanus

Decent Films Guide

...an utterly beguiling success.

September 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Film Journal International

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Daniel Eagan

Film Journal International

Terrific performances by those with fur and without.

September 2, 2006 Full Review Source: About.com

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Rebecca Murray

About.com

If that doesn't bring a tear to your eye, then you're a robot with cross-wired circuitry.

September 2, 2006 Full Review Source: AV Club

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Scott Tobias

AV Club

It plays your lacrimal glands like a violin, but honorably so.

September 1, 2006 Comment

Andy Klein

Los Angeles CityBeat Source: Los Angeles CityBeat

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I love the cute Collie dog and it looks familiar to the original one of adventure Lassie movie. (Disappointed again that DVD has no English substitles.)

September 3, 2006

Dean McKenna

Super Reviewer

"Lassie" takes place in 1939 in Yorkshire, England where following his noticing the collie Lassie during a very wild fox hunt, a duke(Peter O'Toole) offers to buy the dog from a miner, Sam Carraclough(John Lynch), and his wife, Sarah(Samantha Morton), but the dog is not for sale because of her strong attachment to

July 20, 2007

Walter M.

Super Reviewer

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