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List Price: $27.98 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 9455
Released: June 2, 2009 |
| Our Price: $8.61 |
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MPAA Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
What would it be like to have a fox for a friend? A 10-year-old girl who wants to know sets out to befriend a beautiful wild fox she names Lily. Bit by bit, in woods and fields blanketed by snow and carpeted by wildflowers, the girl and Lily build an extarordinary friendship as the fox leads her human companion on adventures bold, funny and even sometimes scary. Filmmaker Luc Jacquet follows his Academy Award-winning* March of the Penguins with another enduring tale of nature. A life-affirming story, astonishing vistas and warm narration by Kate Winslet (Titanic, Revolutionary Road) make The Fox and the Child a share-and-share-again family event.
The Fox and the Child Reviews:
a natural journal with fox in the forest 
2009-11-27 - This movie shown the pure and natural heart of the little girl which can attract the fox to get closer to her.
Will treasure this beautiful film 
2009-10-26 - Received this in new condition, on time. It plays wonderfully. I will treasure this beautiful film which was much less expensive through Amazon.
Deceptive and terrible! 
2009-09-24 - Allow me to describe my experience of watching this film with an analogy. It's like watching someone baking you a cake, using all of the best ingredients, cooking it perfectly, frosting it, decorating it, and then, just before they give it to you... they poop on it. Just a little, tiny poop, but, really, any amount is enough to contaminate the entire cake, rendering it repulsive and inedible.
Let me explain why this is.
When I first saw the title, the cover art, and synopsis on the back of the DVD case, I thought that this movie would be a refreshing change of pace, something enjoyable and beautiful. Foxes are among my favorite animals, and I have always loved watching movies that showcase the beauty of nature. Plus, I thought that the vicarious experience of befriending and playing with a wild fox would be fun.
And I was right. The cinematography is gorgeous, the fox is beautiful and a joy to see, the mountains and forests are some of the most breathtaking shots of nature I have ever seen, and watching the girl befriending the fox was a lot of fun. Halfway through the movie, I had already decided that this was going to rank among my favorite movies of all time.
HOWEVER! Without revealing anything specifically, something happens in the last ten or so minutes that completely destroys all feelings of well-being that the previous hour or so had instilled in me. (This may be a small spoiler, but I'll put it this way: this film in NOT another Yearling or Old Yeller) The last sequence of the film and the ultimate message of the movie came like a slap in the face. The entire time, I had been loving being with the fox in all of that beautiful nature, and then this movie has the nerve to basically say at the end, "You might have had fun doing all of that, but it was bad. Shame on you. Never do it again. Leave nature alone." Considering that the fox in this film was most certainly a tame, trained fox, this has to be one of the most hypocritical things I've ever seen.
This movie is terrible, leading you into a world of the magic and beauty of nature, giving you one of the most wonderful movie-watching experiences ever, and then punishing you for it. It tricks you into having fun so that it can make you feel bad for it. Those last ten or so minutes poison the whole film. What would have been a five-star movie becomes a one-star movie because of this betrayal on the part of the moviemakers.
Boo.
The Fox and the Child 
2009-09-12 - Its wonderful photogrpahy and its truly beautifully done. But the end is too sad for little ones like I have. It would destroy them to have the ending as it is. Just wish it could have ended on a more positive note.
Great movie!
2009-09-10 - My son and I really enjoyed this touching movie about an unbelievable friendship between a 10 year old girl and a wild fox! 5 stars!
