Rusty: A Dog's Tale (Known as Rusty: The Great Rescue on Home Video) is a 1998 family film directed by Shuki Levy and starring Hal Holbrook and Rue McClanahan.[1] The movie was produced by Saban Entertainment and distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment under the CBS/Fox Video label. Internationally, the movie aired on Fox Kids/Jetix.[2]
Rusty: A Dog's Tale | |
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Directed by | Shuki Levy |
Written by | Shell Danielson Shuki Levy |
Produced by | Shuki Levy Haim Saban |
Starring | Hal Holbrook Rue McClanahan Laraine Newman Charles Fleischer Blake Foster Rodney Dangerfield Bobcat Goldthwait Doug E. Doug Suzanne Somers Patrick Duffy Animals were cared for and trained by Worldwide Movie Animals |
Cinematography | Frank Byers |
Edited by | Priscilla Nedd-Friendly |
Music by | Inon Zur |
Production company | Saban Entertainment |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The film is about two orphans named Jory (Blake Foster) and Tess (Danielle Keaton). Their cousins Bart (Charles Fleischer) and Bertha (Laraine Newman) try to take them away from their grandparents (Hal Holbrook and Rue McClanahan) because the two children have trust funds from their late parents. When Bart and Bertha kidnap the newborn puppies, Rusty the dog (Matthew Lawrence) decides to save them.
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Of the film's 2006 re-release on DVD, Andre Dursin of The Aisle Seat offered that the film, a "very cute, impossible-to-dislike tele-film from Shuki Levy and Haim Saban easily trumps their more bombastic children’s fare (like the Power Rangers).[3]
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