Lassie, the famous collie, returns in director Daniel Petrie's updated feature-length family adventure. Baltimore living hasn't agreed with Steve Turner (Jon Tenney). He's been having job trouble for months, and now he's fed up with the filth and crime. So he and his family move to his deceased wife's ancestral family farm in Virginia's lush Shenandoah Valley, population 148. Driving through the countryside, Steve and his new wife, Laura (Helen Slater), stop at the scene of a car accident where they discover a beautiful, newly orphaned collie that they name Lassie. Without hesitation, Lassie (a descendant of the original Lassie of television fame) adopts the Turner family, transforming their son, Matt (Thomas Guiry), from an MTV generation butthead into a sensitive explorer of unspoiled farmland. Matt and his little sister, Jennifer (Brittany Boyd), have trouble adjusting to their new rural hometown but with Lassie's help they soon discover the beautiful secrets of their farm and even begin to repair the tense relationship with their new stepmother. Lassie also helps Matt to romance April (Michelle Williams, in her film debut), a young local girl. All is well until Steve has a run-in with Sam Garland (Frederic Forrest), an ornery sheep-ranching neighbor who is determined to make Turner family life miserable. Lassie and the Turners unite to fight the corrupt Garland empire in this rousing and fun-loving adventure.

Lassie's back in this charming family film by director Daniel Petrie.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
Dolby Digital Stereo - French
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection

Tom Guiry: American Actor, U-571 (2000), TIGERLAND (2000)
Helen Slater: American Actress
Frederic Forrest: American Actor
Richard Farnsworth: American Actor
Michelle Williams: American Actress, DAWSON'S CREEK television series

Daniel Petrie: Director/Producer, A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1961)

"...A stubbornly sweet, picturesque children's film....It gets some help from our memories..."
"...Sit back and be lulled by Kenneth MacMillan's photography of woods and waterfalls in the summer's most housebroken movie..."
"...Believably modern young people in a believably old-fashioned plot....Downright fetching." -- Rating: A-
"...There's good feeling in this movie....LASSIE is a movie that's old-fashioned in a lot of the right ways..."