So here's the deal: As anyone who's read the book and seen the original movie knows, the original wasn't very good. Oh, it was "barely passable" but never captured the book. It was one movie that was BEGGING to be remade. Well, it was. And, as incredible as it is to believe, the remake is actually worse. Show That was some feat they pulled off. I really don't understand how you could remake a movie like this and do it worse, but they managed to do so. The updated movie is widescreen and looks a bit more modern. That's about all it has going for it compared to the original. Here's my problems with it (in no particular order): - Pretty poor acting all the way around, but Billy's parents were the worst and neither the father or mother "feel" right for their part at all - No establishing of any "feeling" or "connection" between Billy and his dogs at all. Considering this is a big part of the book, and at least attempted to be shown a little in the original movie, this is incredible that they could tell this story without doing this. - No establishing of any "feeling" or "connection" between any of the characters. - General "wussification" as I call it of life in general back then and Billy and his family specifically. This movie lacks the "ruggedness" that even the original portrayed somewhat. It's almost impossible to believe that THIS Billy Coleman could actually be skinning any raccoons given his demeanor in this new version. - The hunting supposedly takes place at night, but most all the scenes are in daylight... - The whole big scene with the boy dying flies so fast you can't even remotely tell what happened or experience much any feelings one way or the other in regards to it... - Musical interludes with styles that really take away from the scene you're supposed to be "in" - General lack of any real engagement of feelings with the viewer. I really wasn't the slightest bit moved by this version, whereas even the original managed to move me some! - Constant feeling that this movie was made on a "shoestring budget" even smaller than the original movie's was (and again, I'm sure that's saying something!) - The whole red fern reference they throw in at the very beginning of the movie in an awkward way. At least in the original, it had a nice scene at the table where you were introduced to it. - I also downright didn't like the fact that they showed Billy "crossing his heart and hoping to die" that he would put the dogs out of his mind and a split second later they show him breaking that promise and running to go get his dogs. I don't remember it that way in the book (though it's been a while since I read the book) or the original movie (which I watched recently) - it really teaches kids that their word means very little (i.e. it's okay to lie...) For a family movie that tries to counter that message later on when it shows Billy KEEPING his word to his dogs, it just seemed really odd. He can keep his word to his dogs, but not his mama??? Anyway, all the above to say that this remake was a big disappointment. If you're going to remake a movie like this because the original movie was outdated and not very good as compared to the book, shouldn't you at least TRY to make it better?? This fails on just near every front. The magic of the book is nowhere to be found in this remake. Not that was in abundance with the original movie either, but compared to this, the original movie looks like a masterpiece (even if it IS older looking!) Bottom line: The older original version of this movie, even with it's "old" look, does a better job of telling this story than this remake, and that's sad. Unfortunately this book STILL is in need of a movie studio to come along and "do it right".
 Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs.Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming and adventurous tale for all ages about a young boy and his quest for his own red-bone hound hunting dogs. See production, box office & company info
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More like thisReview Review on the movie The movie is about a young boy named billy and his 2 hunting dogs. The boy loses bets and saves a life his friends bet him and he lost. He enters competitions to earn money for his family to move. He loves his dogs then one day that all changed the movie makes people cry. Billys grandfather runs a store and makes billy do a bet they called his grandfather pops or gramps. His store sells everything. Billy got into a fight with the whole towns boys. Billy works his butt off to buy his 2 dogs little anne and dane. The movie is a very said movie but i would highly recommend the movie
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Where can I watch where the red ferns grow?Download the Peacock app and start streaming Where the Red Fern Grows.
Where the Red Ferns grow Netflix?Based on the children's book by Wilson Rawls, this family drama set in the Ozark Mountains centers on 12-year-old Billy Coleman (Joseph Ashton), who sets his sights on a goal and succeeds in saving enough money to buy two hunting dogs.
Is there a Where the Red Fern Grows movie?Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1974 drama film directed by Norman Tokar and starring James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, Stewart Petersen and Jack Ging. It is based on the 1961 novel of the same name. 97 mins.
Is the Red Fern based on a true story?Based on a True Story
Though some of the adventures of the novel's main characters, young Billy Colburn and his two redbone coon hounds, Old Dan and Little Ann, seem fantastical, much of the book is based on its author, Wilson Rawls's, own childhood growing up in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma.
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