The Little Kidnappers
1990 | 92m | English
Popularity: 4 (history)
| Director: | Donald Shebib |
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| Writer: | Neil Paterson, Donald Shebib |
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| Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach... | |
| Release Date: | Aug 17, 1990 |
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| Director: | Donald Shebib |
| Writer: | Neil Paterson, Donald Shebib |
| Genres: | Drama, Crime, TV Movie |
| Keywords | beach, baby, canada, orphan |
| Production Companies | Jones Programming Partners |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: May 03, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Charlton Heston | James MacKenzie |
| Bruce Greenwood | Willem Hooft |
| Patricia Gage | Mrs. Mackenzie |
| Dan MacDonald | Tom Cameron |
| Leah Pinsent | Kirsten MacKenzie |
| Charles Miller | Davy Mackenzie |
| Leo Wheatley | Harry MacKenzie |
| Richard Donat | Hans Hooft |
| Amos Crawley | Jan Hooft |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Neil Paterson | Writer |
| Donald Shebib | Director, Writer |
| Mark Snow | Original Music Composer |
| Miklós Lente | Director of Photography |
| Ron Wisman | Editor |
| Karen Hazzard | Casting |
| Bill Brodie | Production Design |
| Steve Shewchuk | Set Decoration |
| Ruth Secord | Costume Design |
| Ingrid Udine | Makeup Artist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| James Margellos | Producer |
| Gerald Testar | Co-Producer |
| Philip D. Fehrle | Executive Producer |
| Glenn R. Jones | Executive Producer |
| Noel Resnick | Executive Producer |
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I don't suppose it's very often that anyone would have to compare Charlton Heston with Scottish actor Duncan Macrae but this remake of the 1953 story gives us the chance - and to be honest, I preferred the original. The tale finds two young orphans traveling to Nova Scotia to be with their grandfath ... er. He's a stern man who wants no truck with his Boer neighbours. The youngsters initially fall in with his attitudes, but boys will be boys and gradually they make their own choices. Things come to an head when they discover a baby on the dunes by the sea and secretly try to rear him whilst all hell breaks loose in their community terrified about the whereabouts of the missing child. This is a gentle story that deals with bigotry and hatred pointing out the futility and negativity of such behaviour, and also of how optimism is bourne by future generations who refuse to be bogged down in the failings of past generations. It's nicely shot, the cast do a decent job and the film is perfectly watchable, if really only notable for the attendance of this Hollywood legend.