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Genres:
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Adventure /
Drama /
Family /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Frank Marshall
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Actors:
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August Schellenberg,
Gerard Plunkett,
D.J.,
Timba,
Koda,
Jasmin,
Apache,
Buck,
Noble,
Troika,
Paul Walker,
Bruce Greenwood,
Moon Bloodgood,
Wendy Crewson,
Jason Biggs
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Duration:
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120 min.
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Rating:
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(7.3/10)135
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Plot Summary:
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This Disney effectiveness-dare, inspired beside a sincerely story, tells the story of three Antarctic researchers who are studied to leave behind their loved sled dogs. Over more than six months, the dogs contend with perilous endure conditions in their riot for survival.
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Amazingly moving but gripping film
This is a 5 star within its type of film - it won't be 5 stars for all viewers though. It's a Disney film and so it's moving, sweet & weepy but both kids and adults (especially women) love it. It's a feel good adventure movie which is beautifully filmed and acted by both actors and dogs alike! Despite the calm style of story there isn't a boring moment and it doesn't have too much of a 'hairy fairy' ending either - pretty realistic and especially since it's based on a true story. It's a film I had to share with colleagues and friends alike and I'm still thinking about it over a week later. I thoroughly recommend it.
Eight Below
Dennis HarveyThe family adventure Eight Below is an easy watch, thanks to the splendors of frosty scenery and furry canines. Pic, which follows eight sled dogs trapped in Antarctica and the humans who try to rescue them, is an entertaining story (but less so when bipeds are taking up valuable four-legged screentime). The Disney offering should do reasonable winter biz, with better to come as a home-format item.
Pic is "suggested" by the 1983 Nippon feature Nankyoku Monogatari (Antarctica), which was in turn inspired by real-life events. The Japanese version was set in 1958, with two human protags, and seven out of nine dogs doomed early on. This version is set in the early '90s, with a single principal human and a much happier ending for man's best friends.
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Eight Below
Claudia PuigEight Below is an engaging adventure saga for family audiences that is more along the lines of the captivating March of the Penguins than the sodden Snow Dogs.
The story of the endurance of a pack of hardy sled dogs easily brings a lump to the throat of dog lovers - and in the interest of full disclosure, I must admit to a weakness for movies with canines that are triumphing in the face of adversity.
The tale of eight huskies and malamutes left stranded in Antarctica, and the man who was determined to rescue them, Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker), is loosely based on a true story. Shepard is an outdoorsman who ferries scientists to remote corners of Antarctica with his pack of well-trained dogs.
He is assigned to accompany a professor (Bruce...
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