Robert Nelson Jacobs (screenplay)
Dick King-Smith (book)
Casts
Brian Cox
Emily Watson ... Anne MacMorrow
David Morrissey ... Captain Hamilton
Ben Chaplin ... Lewis Mowbray
Alex Etel ... Angus MacMorrow
Joel Tobeck ... Sgt. Walker
Craig Hall ... Charlie MacMorrow
Marshall Napier ... Sgt Strunk
Geraldine Brophy ... Gracie
Priyanka Xi ... Kirstie MacMorrow
Adam Smith ... Artillery Soldier
Reviews, Comments
A lonely young boy vows to protect the rapidly growing hatchling that emerges from a mysterious egg found on the shores of a Scottish loch in My Dog Skip and Tuck Angus MacMorrow (Alex Etel) has made a most unusual discovery, and he's about to find out just how one innocent boy's greatest fantasy can also be a frightened adult population's greatest threat. Unable to identify the egg that he found while walking the sandy shores, Angus is even more perplexed about the discovery and the creature that emerges resembles what comes to be known as a Water Horse. As the bizarre new life form begins to grow at an alarming rate, it soon becomes obvious that Angus will not be able to keep it a secret for very long. It seems that the government has formed a particularly acute interest in Angus' recent find, and now, as Captain Hamilton (David Morrissey) of the Royal British Navy transforms the small-town diner run by Angus' mother Anne (Emily Watson) into his base of operations, the young boy will have to do some seriously quick thinking if he is to keep his newfound friend out of the hands of research scientists and get it back into the acquatic environment in which it thrives. Everlasting director Jay Russell's screen adaptation of writer Dick King-Smith's popular children's novel.
