Main Cast: Tod Fennell, Henry Czerny, Meredith Henderson, Bronwen Booth, Brian Dooley
Release Year: 1998
Country: CA
Run Time: 96 minutes
Plot
This Canadian movie about a boy and his dog during the early 1920s is set in the countryside southeast of Montreal. Twelve-year-old Sam MacKenzie (Tod Fennell) is the son of an Arctic explorer who vanished in the tundra. His mother Althea (Bronwen Booth) has remarried, but Sam isn't as close to his stepfather, country doc Asa Robinson (Henry Czerny), as he is to the wolf-like dog Kayla. Sam builds a dog sled to enter a race with Kayla, but he soon is stunned to learn a request was made to have local authorities kill Kayla. Peter Behrens' screenplay is based on the novel by Elizabeth Van Steenwik. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
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Credit
Stephane Roy - Art Director, Nicoletta Massone - Costume Designer, Nicholas Kendall - Director, Jean-Marie Drot - Editor, Milan Kymlicka - Composer (Music Score), John Berrie - Cinematographer, Colin Neale - Producer, Claudio Luca - Producer, Claude Hazanavicius - Sound/Sound Designer, Pierre L'Abbe - Sound/Sound Designer, Raymond Vermette - Sound/Sound Designer, Peter Behrens - Screenwriter, Elizabeth VanSteenwik - Book Author
