Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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[edit] Plot
In 1993, Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker) is a guide at an Antarctica research base under contract with the National Science Foundation. UCLA professor, Dr. Davis McClaren (Bruce Greenwood) arrives at the base and presses Shepard to take him to Mount Melbourne to attempt to find a rare meteorite from the planet Mercury. Shepard does so against his own intuition, which tells him that it is too late in the season (January) to complete such a treacherous route. Worried about the snowmobiles breaking through the thinning ice or falling in a crevasse, Shepard tells his boss and McClaren that the only way to get to Mount Melbourne is by dog sled.

Shepard and McClaren make it to Mount Melbourne but are immediately called back to base camp due to an approaching storm. McClaren begs for some time, and Shepard gives him half a day. McClaren finds what he was looking for and the two head back to the sled.

Shepard pauses to patch up one of the dogs (Old Jack) whose paw is bleeding. McClaren, while walking around to get a better radio connection with base, slides down an embankment when a soft ledge gives way. His landing at the bottom cracks the thin ice and McClaren ends up breaking through. Shepherd is able to get his lead dog Maya to bring a rope to McClaren and the dog team pulls him from the water.

Now, battling hypothermia, frostbite and near whiteout conditions, it is the dogs' stamina and keen sense of direction that get Shepard and McClaren back to base. They are immediately evacuated, along with all other personnel, due to the storm, which is expected to intensify. With too much weight in the plane to carry both people and dogs, the human team medically evacuates Shepard and McClaren with a plan to return later for the dogs. The dogs are temporarily left behind, but the storm is worse than expected and it soon becomes apparent that no rescue will be attempted until the next spring.

Back at home, Shepard experiences angst about leaving his dogs and stops working as an Antarctic-conditions guide. Five months later, and after a heart-to-heart session with an older, veteran guide, Shepard decides to throw his all into rescuing the dogs. Before leaving for the trip, Shepard patches things up with McClaren, and tells him about his intentions to rescue the dogs. McClaren learns that Shepard does not have enough money to pay for the trip, but tells him that he cannot help him. Soon afterwards, McClaren sees a drawing of the dog team made by his young son, with the title: "My Hero is... THE DOGS WHO SAVED MY DADDY." McClaren realizes the magnitude of his ingratitude and uses the remaining balance of his grant money to finance a rescue mission.


[edit] The dogs' story
Four days after the dogs were left at base camp, they eventually break free of their chains, except for Old Jack, who's too old to go with the others on their journey and dies at base camp. The dogs now begin hunting in order to keep from starving. However, one night whilst looking at the Southern Lights, one of the dogs, Dewey, falls off a steep slope and is fatally injured. The dogs show their affection for their teammate, but eventually have to move on. The youngest dog, Max, stays with Dewey a little longer and is separated from the rest.

Max finds his way back to where McClaren fell into the ice earlier and spots a dead Orca. At first, he has a nibble until he realizes that nearby is a leopard seal that fiercely guards its meal. The other dogs also find their way to the dead Orca and Max decides to get the leopard seal's attention so the rest can eat. But the leopard seal quickly sees what's happening, bites Maya in the leg and nearly kills her. Max and the other dogs fiercely chase him off. Maya manages to survive, but her leg is seriously injured.

The rest of the pack continue to hunt for food. Maya refuses food brought for her, and gives pack leadership to Max, who has shown bravery, leadership and compassion.

The dogs manage to find their way close to the base camp where Shepard and his rescue team are arriving. Shepard and the dogs, including a well Maya, have a happy reunion. The final scene shows a grave for Old Jack and Dewey.


[edit] Background
The 1958 ill-fated Japanese expedition to Antarctica inspired the 1983 hit movie Nankyoku Monogatari. Eight Below is the fictional adaptation of the events of the 1958 incident moved forward to 1993, the last year that sled dogs were used in Antarctica.[1] In the 1958 event, fifteen Sakhalin Husky sled dogs were abandoned when the expedition team was unable to return to the base. When the team returned a year later, two dogs were still alive. Another seven were still chained up, and six unaccounted for.


[edit] Sled dogs
In Eight Below there are two Alaskan Malamutes (Buck and Shadow) and six Siberian Huskies (Maya, Max, Truman, Dewey, Shorty and Old Jack). Each actor-dog had help from other dogs who performed stunts and pulled sleds. In all, over 30 dogs were used to portray the film's eight canine characters. Max and Old Jack were played by dogs seen in Disney's Snow Dogs.[2]


[edit] Cast
Paul Walker as Jerry Shepard
Bruce Greenwood as Davis McClaren
Moon Bloodgood as Katie
Jason Biggs as Charlie Cooper
Gerard Plunkett as Dr. Andy Harrison
August Schellenberg as Mindo
Wendy Crewson as Eve McClaren
Belinda Metz as Rosemary
Connor Christopher Levins as Eric McClaren
Duncan Fraser as Captain Lovett
Dan Ziskie as Navy Commander
Michael David Simms as Armin Butler
Daniel Bacon as Bureaucrat #2
Laara Sadiq as Bureaucrat #3
Malcolm Stewart as Charles Buffett

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The movie follows the story of Buddy and Molly's offspring in Washington. The puppies are playing hide-and-seek one morning when Budderball finds an ice-cream truck. Rosebud spots the hapless canine and follows him in an attempt to help. Hilarity ensues when Buddha finds them both in the truck and B-Dog and Mud-Bud end up in the truck which is shipping to Alaska.

In Alaska, the Buddies meet Shasta, a young husky whose owner wants nothing more than to mush. The puppies take a vote to help a grateful Shasta to pursue his dreams. Unfortunately, as Shasta has no parents, this puts the puppies in a predicament as there is nobody to teach them how to become snow dogs and the local population of older puppies sneers at the thought of them learning how. Luckily, they find Talon, his father's mentor, in the mountains. Although initially reluctant, Shasta manages to persuade Talon into teaching the over-zealous puppies into becoming his new protégés by reminding him that "It's not the size of the dog that counts but the heart of team".

When Shasta introduces his owner, Adam, to his new sleigh team, the child is delighted at the prospect of his dreams coming true and the team pursue vigorous training routines often to comedic effect.

Adam begins building a new sleigh with his team of hard-working puppies. Talon proudly watches as the team's efforts come to fruition and it seems as though they are cooperating as a team. The older town huskeys, however, are not impressed and begin to plan their downfall. They reveal to the Buddies that Shasta's parents died when the ice beneath them shattered to dishearten them.

Back in Washington, Buddy and Molly find Budderball's toy American football on the back of the ice-cream truck and proceed to take the same route the puppies did to Alaska.

Talon calls the puppies to the mountain late on night to view the Northern Lights before he departs telling Shasta that knows all he needs to know and that he can become the great leader that his father was. The following morning, the puppies enter the race with Adam. After being reminded by how treacherous the race is by the sheriff, the puppies begin their trek.

Meanwhile, Buddy and Molly go looking for the puppies in Alaska where the rescue dog Bernie informs them of their participation in the race and, without further hesitation, the trio try to find the puppies. Adam's father also begins looking for his son.

The team manage to make it to the midway checkpoint without much difficulty. The sheriff finally checks his email and finds out that the puppies in his town are actually the missing puppies from Washington. The snowstorm becomes more and more dangerous as Adam's father gets snowed in and Adam's main competitor and owner of the rival snow dogs begins cheating by sabotaging the competing sleds. Adam and the team take shelter in an igloo provided by an inuit until the storm subsides. They come head to head with their opponent, Jean George and Adam gets injured.

Luckily Adam recovers. Jean George's dogs, the bullies from earlier get into trouble when the ice beneath them shatters. Jean George continues and abandons his dogs while Adam and the puppies begin a rescue operation despite Shasta's fears of his parents' deaths. The puppies pull the dogs out of the icy waters and Jean George resumes the race without any gratitude.

Jean George's dogs realize they owe nothing to their owner and everything to Shasta and the Buddies, and so, slow down causing Jean George to lose the race. Adam is victorious and the Buddies reunite with Buddy and Molly. Jean George gives out to his dogs and they respond in kind by chasing him around the Arctic. The Buddies, all seven of them return home via airplane.They Land and live happily ever after.


[edit] Cast

[edit] Acting
Dominic Scott Kay as Adam Bilson
John Kapelos as Jean George
Mike Dopud as Joe Bilson
Charles C. Stevenson Jr. as Officer
Lise Simms as Meg Bilson
Dylan Minnette as Noah Framm
Richard Karn as Patrick Framm
Cynthia Stevenson as Jackie Framm
Lothraine Blutheau as Icelandic Sledder
Lucas Zayonc as Joel the Goalie

[edit] Voice Roles
Josh Flitter as Budderball (voice)
Henry Hodges as Mudbud (voice)
Liliana Mumy as Rosebud (voice)
Skyler Gisondo as B-Dawg (voice)
Jimmy Bennett as Buddha (voice)
Dylan Sprouse as Shasta (voice)
Tom Everett Scott as Buddy (voice)
Molly Shannon as Molly (voice)
Kris Kristofferson as Talon (voice)
Jim Belushi as Bernie (voice)
Paul Rae as Phillipe (voice)
Lothaire Bulteau as Francois (voice)
Whoopi Goldberg as Miss Mittens (voice)




One of the Best Doggy movie !!! I watched it more than 30 times!!!!

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Genesis 37:9
And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me. - (KJV)


Exodus 8:25
And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. - (KJV)


Chronicles I 7:14
The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead - (KJV)


Chronicles I 11:27
Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, - (KJV)


CAST AND CREW-FULL VERSION

Tom Hanks ... Capt. John H. Miller

Tom Sizemore ... Sgt. Mike Horvath

Edward Burns ... Pvt. Richard Reiben

Barry Pepper ... Pvt. Daniel Jackson

Adam Goldberg ... Pvt. Stanley Mellish

Vin Diesel ... Pvt. Adrian Caparzo

Giovanni Ribisi ... T-5 Medic Irwin Wade

Jeremy Davies ... Cpl. Timothy P. Upham

Matt Damon ... Pvt. James Francis Ryan

Ted Danson ... Capt. Fred Hamill

Paul Giamatti ... Sgt. Hill

Dennis Farina ... Lt. Col. Anderson
Joerg Stadler ... Steamboat Willie

Max Martini ... Cpl. Henderson (as Maximilian Martini)

Dylan Bruno ... Toynbe
Daniel Cerqueira ... Weller

Demetri Goritsas ... Parker

Ian Porter ... Trask
Gary Sefton ... Rice
Julian Spencer ... Garrity
Steve Griffin ... Wilson
William Marsh ... Lyle
Marc Cass ... Fallon
Markus Napier ... Maj. Hoess
Neil Finnighan ... Ramelle Paratrooper
Peter Miles ... Ramelle Paratrooper
Paul Garcia ... Field HQ Major
Seamus McQuade ... Field HQ Aide
Ronald Longridge ... Coxswain

Adam Shaw ... Delancey
Rolf Saxon ... Lt. Briggs

Corey Johnson ... Radioman
Loclann Aiken ... Soldier on the Beach
John Barnett ... Soldier on the Beach
Maclean Burke ... Soldier on the Beach

Victor Burke ... Soldier on the Beach
Aiden Condron ... Soldier on the Beach
Paschal Friel ... Soldier on the Beach
Shane Hagan ... Soldier on the Beach
Paul Hickey ... Soldier on the Beach

Shane Johnson ... Soldier on the Beach

Laird Macintosh ... Soldier on the Beach
Brian Maynard ... Soldier on the Beach
Martin McDougall ... Soldier on the Beach
Mark Phillips ... Soldier on the Beach
Lee Aaron Rosen ... Soldier on the Beach (as Lee Rosen)
Andrew Scott ... Soldier on the Beach
Matthew Sharp ... Soldier on the Beach

Vincent Walsh ... Soldier on the Beach

Grahame Wood ... Soldier on the Beach
John Sharian ... Corporal
Glenn Wrage ... Doyle
Crofton Hardester ... Senior Medical Officer
Martin Hub ... Czech Wehrmacht Soldier

Raffaello Degruttola ... Goldman (as Raph Taylor)
Nigel Whitmey ... Pvt. Boyd
Sam Ellis ... Pvt. Hastings

Erich Redman ... German #1

Tilo Keiner ... German #2
Stephan Grothgar ... German #3 / Voice on Bullhorn

Stephane Cornicard ... Jean
Michelle Evans ... Jean's Wife
Martin Beaton ... Jean's Son
Anna Maguire ... Jean's Daughter

Nathan Fillion ... Pvt. James Frederick 'Minnesota' Ryan

Leland Orser ... Lt. DeWindt
Michael Mantas ... Paratrooper Lieutenant

David Vegh ... Paratrooper Oliver

Ryan Hurst ... Paratrooper Mandelsohn

Nick Brooks ... Paratrooper Joe
Sam Scudder ... Paratrooper #1
John Walters ... Old French Man
Dorothy Grumbar ... Old French Woman
James Innes-Smith ... MP Lieutenant
Harve Presnell ... Gen. George C. Marshall

Dale Dye ... War Department Colonel

Bryan Cranston ... War Department Colonel
David Wohl ... War Department Captain
Eric Loren ... War Department Lieutenant
Valerie Colgan ... War Department Clerk
Amanda Boxer ... Mrs. Margaret Ryan
Harrison Young ... Ryan as Old Man
Kathleen Byron ... Old Mrs. Ryan
Rob Freeman ... Ryan's Son
Thomas Gizbert ... Ryan's Grandson
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John de Lancie ... Letter Reader (voice) (uncredited)

James Embree ... German Paratrooper (uncredited)

Declan Geraghty ... Soldier (uncredited)

Taylor Murphy ... Sergeant Blaine (uncredited)
Nina Muschallik ... Ryan's Granddaughter (uncredited)

Mac Steinmeier ... Waffen SS Soldier (uncredited)

Vincent Ventresca ... Soldier on beach (uncredited)

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Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film set during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. The film is notable for the intensity of its opening 24 minutes, which depict the Omaha beachhead assault of June 6, 1944. Afterward, it follows Tom Hanks as Captain John H. Miller and several men as they search for a paratrooper, who is the last surviving brother of three fallen servicemen.

Rodat first came up with the film's story in 1994 when he saw a monument dedicated to eight brothers who died during the American Civil War. Inspired by the story, Rodat decided to write a similar story set during World War II. The script was submitted to producer Mark Gordon, who then handed it to Hanks. It was finally given to Spielberg, who had previously demonstrated his interest in WWII themes with films such as Schindler's List, and decided to direct Saving Private Ryan after reading the film's script. The film's premise is very loosely based on the real-life case of the Niland brothers.

Saving Private Ryan was well received by audiences and garnered considerable critical acclaim, winning several awards for film, cast, and crew as well as earning significant returns at the box office. The film grossed US$480 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of the year. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated the film for eleven Academy Awards; Spielberg's direction won him his second Academy Award for Best Director. Saving Private Ryan was released on home video in May 1999, earning $44 million from sales.







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