Finding Rin Tin Tin is a 2007 Bulgarian–American family comedy film directed by Israeli filmmaker Danny Lerner. Based loosely on historical events, the film is the most recent in a long line that includes the character Rin Tin Tin.
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Finding Rin Tin Tin | |
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Directed by | Danny Lerner |
Written by | David Rolland Jim Tierney |
Produced by | Les Weldon George Furla Kirk M. Hallam |
Starring | Tyler Jensen Ben Cross Gregory Gudgeon Steve O'Donnell William Hope Todd Jensen |
Cinematography | Emil Topuzov |
Edited by | Michele Gisser |
Music by | Stephen Edwards |
Production companies | First Look Studios Metropolitan Filmexport Millennium Films Emmett/Furla Films |
Distributed by | Nu Image Films |
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Running time | 87 minutes[1] |
Countries | Bulgaria United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $9 million[2] |
The film tells the story of the original Rin Tin Tin, the legendary German Shepherd, found shortly before the end of World War I by American serviceman Lee Duncan as a shell-shocked puppy in Lorraine, France. The dog was taken to America and became the hero of several films made in the 1920s and 1930s.[3]
Finding Rin Tin Tin is the lowest ranked film on the French site AlloCiné, compiling the ratings of several film critics and was unanimously ranked 1 star.[4]
In October 2008, Daphne Hereford, an American woman breeding progeny of the original Rin Tin Tin, asked a federal court in Houston, Texas to protect her rights to the Rin Tin Tin name.[5] The judge ruled in favor of the filmmakers, declaring the use of the name in the film to be fair use.[6]