An Elephant Called Slowly
by James Hill
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Actor: Bill Travers, George Adamson, Joab Collins, Vinay Inambar, Virginia McKennaDirector: James Hill
Producer: Bill Travers
Writer: Bill Travers
Cinematographer: Simon Trevor
Producer: James Hill
Writer: James Hill
Editor: Andrew Borthwick
Producer: Monty Ruben
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-11-14
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of An Elephant Called Slowly
Movie Review: Wonderful family film
Summary: 5 Stars
My two-year-old has an obsession with elephants so I did a little research to try and find something for her to watch besides Dumbo and Babar. I came across this video and actually ended up getting this and Born Free, which has the same actors. To be honest, we never made it through this movie the first several times we tried to watch it -- it seemed a little slow in the beginning. However, once we had watched Born Free five hundred times we decided to give this one another try and I'm so glad we did because this movie is absolutely darling. Every time we watch this film I love it more than the last. It really doesn't have much of a plot, it is really more of an educational tour of the wildlife of Kenya loosely tied to the story of the actors (who play themselves in the film), who are "adopted" by three orphan elephants while they are housesitting for a friend. The elephants aren't as prominent characters as the lions were in Born Free but somehow it doesn't matter, the movie is just so sweet and charming -- and the music is wonderful, it is happy, bouncy, my family loves dancing to this movie as much as watching it.
There are a couple of scenes which show the food chain in action, one with a cheetah where you don't actually get a good view of the kill and one with wild dogs where you do (though you don't see as much blood as you'd think). I think the scenes bother me most, I really don't think my daughter gets it just yet -- but when she does this will be a really gentle way to explain how things work in nature.
We couldn't love this movie more, I'm so happy we found it -- I'll probably buy a few extra copies to have just in case it's discontinued or we wear ours out.
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