Call me hard to please, but Charles Sturridge's film leaves me unmoved and unengaged by the lovely story...Lassie should rip our hearts out, or at least make us rip our hankies out.
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03/04/06
Lassie (2006)
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Reviews Counted:66
Fresh:61
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.
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
Reviews for Lassie
Top CriticThis 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
10/10/09
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08/19/09
Writer/director Charles Sturridge adapts the heart-warming story with strict attention to its modest emotional underpinnings of family, devotion, and a beautiful collie.
04/20/09
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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
It's a welcome throwback to the carefully crafted family films of the studio era.
12/26/06
A 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
...The collie that became a star back in 1943 can still make you cry and cheer in the all-new Lassie.
09/02/06
If 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
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