Support our work! Where the Red Fern Grows. Movie review by Scott G. Mignola , Common Sense Media. Popular with kids. Moving version of the classic novel. G 97 minutes. Rate movie. Watch or buy. Based on 8 reviews. Based on 14 reviews. Get it now Searching for streaming and purchasing options Common Sense is a nonprofit organization. Your purchase helps us remain independent and ad-free. Get it now on Searching for streaming and purchasing options X of Y Official trailer.
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User Reviews Parents say Kids say. Parent of a 8 and 9-year-old Written by slbsis August 13, Based on the author's own boyhood, this boy-and-his-dog story is exciting, uplifting, and heartbreaking. Families can talk about the way hunting is portrayed in Where the Red Fern Grows.
Does the author make hunting seem exciting? If so, how? Where the Red Fern Grows is a coming-of-age novel. What are some ways that you can tell Billy is growing up in the story?
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Suggest an update Where the Red Fern Grows. Your privacy is important to us. We won't share this comment without your permission. If you chose to provide an email address, it will only be used to contact you about your comment. See our privacy policy. A lot or a little? The parents' guide to what's in this book. Stands out for positive role models. Educational Value. Positive Messages. Positive Role Models. Well, in all truth, I rented this because of Dave Matthews, because I love his music.
I didn't know what to expect. And while he was OK, and this is a star filled cast, I did not like the movie. Very cheesy, very boring. And everyone looked way too clean for an old Oklahoma farm family setting. Definitely not my cup of tea. This movie was a very good adaptation of the book, and this coming from someone who is very critical. I have, like most, read the book many times, which I think makes it harder to like any film adaptation. However, the movie follows the book very well, omitting small things that really didn't have a lot to do with the plot-line.
I would say the movie had a little more of a religious slant than the book did. The acting was nice. I would say the major criticism would be they didn't really get into the dog's personalities much. The book did a great job of showing Dan as a clutz with a big heart and Ann as the smart one. However, I would recommend this and it was a million times better than the original movie adaptation. After watching this movie I only have one question: why did they make it again?
Seriously, this movie is identical to the version, and its not as if its challenging movie as far as effects go so there wasn't even the excuse of remaking because the technology had improved. Also The actor who played the main character was just awful, and Dave Mathews What was he doing in this movie? Definitely left me shaking my head. It amazes me that films that are this useless can still get the green light. I think of how many people had to read this script before it was filmed and say "yeah that sounds like a great movie, we have a lot to add on the version" its almost comical I give it 1 out of Normally when i see a movie after I've read the book, i'm usually disappointed because my imagination is usually bigger than what they can put on the screen with time limitations and budgets - but not this movie.
The minute i started watching this movie i was hooked. I haven't read the book in years, but I've read the book at least two or three times, and this movie brought back some great memories, and certain parts of the movie was almost exactly like i imagined especially the coon contest. Set in the Ozarks in the 's, this movie shows what kids did before computers, cell phones and video games.
It also shows that life is very fragile, with Rubin Pritchard dying by simply trying to break up a dog fight and falling on his hatchet. But overall this is a feel good movie for the whole family, even though both dogs die in the end - it ends nicely with a nice montage of Billy Coleman and his dogs, and knowing that Dan and Lil' Ann will live for eternity through the book, this movie and where the red fern grows.
To start, I am a huge Red Fern fan. I have the first one on DVD and video and also have read the book several times.
I am from Tahlequah, OK where the movies were filmed and so it does strike a home chord for me. I finally purchased the remake today and I must say that I am so disappointed. Usually remakes kind of mix things up a little bit to make it a little more interesting than the first.
Dave Matthews should stick with his singing gig and the boy that played Billy Coleman was awful. Also the movie was very unrealistic. I have been coon hunting several times and you let the dogs do the hunting and just wait until they bark treed. This poor kid is running all over the woods right behind the coon.
Also, I love how it is pouring down rain and they are fogging up dust. Poor special effects! Dust doesn't fog up in the rain! The movie is about a young boy named billy and his 2 hunting dogs.
The boy loses bets and saves a life his friends bet him and he lost. He enters competitions to earn money for his family to move. He loves his dogs then one day that all changed the movie makes people cry. Billys grandfather runs a store and makes billy do a bet they called his grandfather pops or gramps. His store sells everything. Billy got into a fight with the whole towns boys. Billy works his butt off to buy his 2 dogs little anne and dane. The movie is a very said movie but i would highly recommend the movie.
Positives- 1. In the movie it shows how a boy will do anything to get his own dogs and will be willing to help his family out. This movie is a great movie, mainly because it made during the great depression and it shows how families lived in that horrible time. The last positive is how the boy has to witness death in his life and how its always going to be apart of life.
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