Back home - the incredible journey

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title Back home - the incredible journey
Original title Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1993
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Duwayne Dunham
script Caroline Thompson
Linda Woolverton
production Jeffrey Chernov
Franklin R. Levy
music Bruce Broughton
camera Reed Smoot (cameraman)
cut Jonathan P. Shaw
occupation
synchronization
chronology

Successor  →
An animal trio - on the road again

Back Home - The Incredible Journey (Original title: Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey ) is an American film by Walt Disney Pictures from 1993. Directed by Duwayne Dunham . The script is based on the novel The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford. The strip is a remake of the film The Incredible Journey , made 30 years earlier , also made at Disney.

action

American bulldog Chance, Ragdoll Sassy and Golden Retriever Shadow belong to children Jamie, Hope and Peter. The story is told from the perspective of the young male Chance. Furthermore, the pets can talk to each other, but not talk to wild or farm animals . Unlike Sassy and Shadow, Chance is a former stray who has only recently been living with the family and who believes he has finally found a home. Since he is still a young dog, he sometimes behaves playfully and unreasonably. Shadow, on the other hand, has been through many years and often criticizes Chance for his unreasonableness. Sassy the cat is a sarcasm- prone diva .

One day the family temporarily moves to San Francisco as Bob, the family man, is considering accepting a job offer there. It is considered best not to take the animals with you, but to leave them temporarily with a friend on a farm. However, Chance, Shadow and Sassy don't understand this and think they are being left behind. Chance accepts this tacitly as it has been abandoned in the past and considers people to be generally unfaithful. Sassy, ​​and especially Shadow, do not want to believe that they have been abandoned. When the friend goes to drive cattle for a few days and asks her neighbor to take care of the animals, Shadow takes the opportunity and breaks out. Sassy reluctantly follows him, and finally Chance joins too. Due to a misunderstanding, the neighbor believes the pets were taken to drive cattle.

The four-legged friends make their way home under Shadow's guidance, believing that they have already reached it in the evening. When they reach a mountain ridge, however, all they encounter is the endless wilderness of the Sierra Nevada . Shadow decides to venture home, whereupon Chance and Sassy follow him.

The family has since learned of the disappearance of the pets, so Bob puts up wanting cards. Meanwhile, the three runaways meet a grizzly bear , but they can escape. While crossing a raging river, Sassy falls into the water and tumbles down a waterfall. The dogs soon give up the search because they think the cat did not survive the fall. However, this is found and nurtured by a naturalist living alone in nature. At the same time, the dogs are confronted with a puma . They manage to outsmart him by setting a trap in which the predator is catapulted into a canyon by means of a transverse, elongated rock . In their joy of victory, the two of them are heard by the now healthy Sassy. A reunion follows, after which the curious chance is hurt in the face by a porcupine. Soon after, the three of them find a little girl, obviously lost, to watch over the night. The next morning, Shadow hears the search parties, rushes to them and alerts them with his barking. The girl is found together with Sassy and Chance, the animals are also identified by two rangers. They bring the four-legged friends to an animal shelter, from which they should actually be picked up by their already informed and overjoyed family. However, the three run away again, believing they have to stay in the shelter. Disappointed, the family moves back to their actual home, outside of San Francisco .

Shortly afterwards, Chance, Shadow and Sassy arrive in their owners hometown. With renewed zest for action, they embark on the last kilometers of the path ahead of them. At a construction site, Shadow falls into a pit and injures his leg. Chance, who has now realized how much his friends and family mean to him, tries to persuade the frail Shadow to continue. However, Shadow turns out to be too old and wants to be left behind. Then they separate. Shortly afterwards, Chance and Sassy are reunited with Jamie and Hope. They had already given up hope of ever seeing their pets again. Peter, however, waits in vain for his dog Shadow. When he is about to return to the house, you can see his dog approaching him from a distance. In a happy ending , the entire family is reunited with their pets.

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

continuation

In 1996 the sequel An animal trio followed again ( Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco ). Directed by David R. Ellis . Michael J. Fox and Sally Field also spoke here in the original Chance and Sassy .

Web links