Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure

Release Date: 1995-03-24

Overview: A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. When Daniel Hackett sees his father Jonas gravely wounded by the villainous Stiles, his first urge is for his family to flee the danger, and give up their life on a farm which Daniel has come to despise anyway. Going alone to a lake to try to decide what to do, he falls asleep on a boat and wakes to find himself in the wild west, in the company of such "tall tale" legends as Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Calamity Jane. Together, they battle the same villains Daniel is facing in his "real" world, ending with a heroic confrontation in which the boy stands up to Stiles and his henchmen, and rallies his neighbors to fight back against land grabbers who want to destroy their town.

Rating: 6.229 / 10

Cast

Patrick Swayze

as Pecos Bill

Oliver Platt

as Paul Bunyan

Roger Aaron Brown

as John Henry

Nick Stahl

as Daniel Hackett

Scott Glenn

as J.P. Stiles

Crew

Robert Rodat - Writer
Steve Bloom - Writer
Jeremiah S. Chechik - Director
Randy Edelman - Original Music Composer
Eugenio Zanetti - Production Design

Reviews

r96sk:

A tad messy in its execution, but a cool film nevertheless. I'll be honest, it oddly took me a while to catch on to what was happening; I found all the dots, so to speak, but didn't connect them qu...