White Fang (French: Croc-Blanc) is a 2018 French-Luxembourgish computer-animated film directed by Alexandre Espigares. Based on the 1906 book of the same name by Jack London, the film features the voices of Nick Offerman, Rashida Jones, Paul Giamatti, and Eddie Spears as natives of Alaska who, at different times, come to know White Fang, a free spirited and at times violent wolfdog who eventually bonds with Offerman's character, a gentle master named Weedon Scott. The film also features Dave Boat, Daniel Hagen, and Stephen Kramer Glickman in the original English version, and Virginie Efira, Raphaël Personnaz, and Dominique Pinon in the French dub.
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White Fang | |
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French | Croc-Blanc |
Directed by | Alexandre Espigares |
Screenplay by | Philippe Lioret Serge Frydman Dominique Monféry |
Based on | White Fang by Jack London |
Music by | Bruno Coulais |
Production companies | Superprod Animation Bidibul Productions Big Beach |
Distributed by | Netflix |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Countries | France Luxembourg |
Languages | English French |
Box office | $7.8 million[3] |
The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2018.[4] After a limited theatrical run in France and the United States, Netflix acquired the film and released it later that year, on July 6, 2018.[5] The film received positive reviews from critics and audiences. During its theatrical run, White Fang grossed $7.8 million worldwide.
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A young wolfdog pup gets separated from his mother, Niche, and embarks on a journey of self discovery. He is given the name White Fang by a tribe of Native Americans, who enlist him as a sled-pulling dog. After he is unable to pull sleds anymore, he is sold to a Native American man, who loses him in a gambling bet to Beauty Smith, a cruel master who forces White Fang into dogfighting. He is saved by Marshal Weedon Scott, who bonds with him before eventually setting him free.
The film received mostly positive reviews from critics and audiences. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 80% of 10 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.5/10.[6] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 61 out of 100, based on 5 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[7]
Guy Lodge of Variety called it a "a visually marvelous, dramatically uneven spin" on the source material, writing that, "close canine sympathy is one thing this kind-hearted, beautifully conceived but, well, slightly toothless 'White Fang' gets right throughout."[8] Lodge criticized the film's pacing, voice acting, and lack of personality, but praised its animation and artistic style, and felt that it was an enjoyable movie for its target demographic of young children.[8] Kate Erbland of IndieWire gave the film a B grade, wrote that it "offers up warm-hearted charms and often stunning animation", praising its animation and message.[9]
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2016 | Annecy International Animated Film Festival | Gan Foundation Award for Distribution | Won | [10] |
2018 | European Film Awards | European Animated Feature Film | Won | [11] |
Hamburg Film Festival | Michel Award | Nominated | [12] | |
Hollywood Music in Media Awards | Best Original Score - Animated Film | Nominated | [13] | |
Shanghai International Film Festival | 21st Golden Goblet Awards | Nominated | [14] |
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