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LIFE OF PI Storyline In Canada, a writer visits the Indian storyteller Pi Patel and asks him to tell his life story. Pi tells the story of his childhood in Pondicherry, India, and the origin of his nickname. One day, his father, a zoo owner, explains that the municipality is no longer supporting the zoo and he has hence decided to move to Canada, where the animals the family owns would also be sold. They board on a Japanese cargo ship with the animals and out of the blue, there is a storm, followed by a shipwrecking. Pi survives in a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a male Bengal tiger nicknamed Richard Parker. They are adrift in the Pacific Ocean, with aggressive hyena and Richard Parker getting hungry. Pi needs to find a way to survive. To demonstrate animal behavior, Pi's father lets a live goat to be fed to Richard Parker. His worker comes in and ties a goat with a rope to the iron bar of the cage. Goat is outside the cage facing Pi and the famil

THE BLACK HORSE 🐴 This film is offered as children's fare. That does not matter to me. It succeeds as an professionally presented film for adults. I am in no position to bellyache about how little it resembles Walter Farley's children's book. I have read some of the book. The book does not interest me. Neither does its set-up for whatever sequels interest me. They were, by most accounts, mediocre. This film, "The Black Stallion", holds a great deal more for me than most other pictures. The film is one of the most powerfully beautiful sets of moving images I have ever seen on screen conjoined with sumptuous music and gently mesmerizing performances. Its editing awards, cinematography awards, and the awards for its music all were well deserved. From the wreckage of the "Drake" through the lengthy bonding of boy and horse on the island, through to their rescue, not a word is spoken. It is one of the longest, most intensely cast verbal negative

Lassie🐶 This article is about the fictional rough collie dog character. For other uses, see Lassie L Lassie   is a fictional character created by  Eric Knight ; she is a female  Rough Collie  dog, and is featured in a short story that was later expanded to a full-length novel called  Lassie Come-Home . Knight's portrayal of Lassie bears some features in common with another fictional female collie of the same name, featured in the British writer  Elizabeth Gaskell 's 1859 short story "The Half Brothers." In "The Half Brothers", Lassie is loved only by her young master and guides the adults back to where two boys are lost in a snowstorm. Published in 1940, Knight's novel was filmed by  MGM   in 1943, as  Lassie Come Home  with a dog named  Pal  playing Lassie. Pal then appeared with the stage name "Lassie" in six other MGM feature films through 1951. Pal's owner and trainer  Rudd Weatherwax  then acquired the Lassie name and trad

Hachi: A Dog's Tale🐶 Hachi: A Dog's Tale   is a 2009 British-American  drama film . Based on the true story of a faithful  Akita Inu , the titular  Hachikō , it is directed by  Lasse Hallström , is written by Stephen P. Lindsey and  Kaneto Shindo , and stars  Richard Gere ,  Joan Allen  and  Sarah Roemer . The subject is a remake of the 1987  Japanese film,  Hachikō Monogatari  ( ハチ公物語 ), literally "The Tale of Hachiko". Hachi: A Dog's Tale  premiered at the  Seattle International Film Festival  on June 13, 2009, and its first theatrical release was in Japan on August 8.  Sony Pictures Entertainment  decided to forgo a U.S. theatrical release. The film was given a UK theatrical release on March 12, 2010, courtesy of  Entertainment Film Distributors , and opened in over 25 countries throughout 2009 and 2010. The film's foreign box office retfurns total $46.7 million as of January 2011. [ 1] Hachi is a story of love and devotion between a dog and