Home on the Range
Home on the Range is a 2004 American animated Western musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 45th Disney animated feature film, it was the last traditionally animated Disney film released until The Princess and the Frog (2009). The film was written and directed by Will Finn and John Sanford (in their feature directorial debuts) and produced by Alice Dewey Goldstone, from a story by Finn, Sanford, Mark Kennedy, Michael LaBash, Sam Levine, and Robert Lence.
Plot
Amidst the Old West, wanted cattle rustler Alameda Slim steals most of Dixon Ranch's cattle. The ranch owner, Mr. Dixon sells the remaining cow, Maggie, to Pearl, a kind, aging woman who runs a small farm called Patch of Heaven. Sam, the local Sheriff, arrives to tell Pearl that unless she pays back the bank in three days, her farm will be sold to the highest bidder. Hearing this, Maggie convinces farm cows Grace and Mrs. Calloway to go to town with her to win prize money at a fair. While the cows are in town, a bounty hunter named Rico drops off a criminal, collects their reward, and looks for a replacement horse while his rests. Idolizing him, Sam's horse Buck convinces Rico to take him. Upon seeing this and learning the reward for capturing Slim will cover Pearl's debt, Maggie convinces the other cows to help her collect the reward to save Patch of Heaven.
More details
author | John Sanford Mark Kennedy Michael LaBash Robert Lence Sam Levine Will Finn |
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director | John Sanford Will Finn |
editor | H. Lee Peterson |
genre | animation comedy western |
keywords | bounty hunter cattle cattle rustler fall out flash flood hear learn old west prize money ranch owner reward steer the old west want yodel |
musicBy | Alan Menken |
producer | Alice Dewey Goldstone |
productionCompany | Walt Disney Feature Animation Walt Disney Pictures |
publisher | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
theme | animated buddy buddy comedy female buddy musical musical comedy |