The Water Horse

The Water Horse Legend of the Deep stylised onscreen as simply The Water Horse is a 2007 AmericanBritish family fantasy drama film directed by Jay Russell. The screenplay, written by Robert Nelson Jacobs, is an adaptation of Dick KingSmiths childrens novel The Water Horse. It stars Alex Etel as a young boy who discovers a mysterious egg and cares for what hatches out of it a Water Horse loosely based on the Celtic water horse which later becomes the fabled Loch Ness Monster. The film also stars Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin, and David Morrissey. The film was produced by Revolution Studios and Walden Media, in collaboration with Beacon Pictures, and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Visual effects, which included the computergenerated imagery of the water horse named Crusoe by Etels character were completed by the New Zealandbased companies Weta Digital and Weta Workshopvisual effects companies who worked with Walden Media before on the productions of The Chronicles of Narnia films. The Water Horse was released in the United States on December 25, 2007 and in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2008. This was the last film done by Revolution Studios before their film division was shut down.

In 1942 Scotland, a boy named Angus MacMorrow lives in the large manor house of Lord Killin on the shores of Loch Ness with his mother Anne MacMorrow the housekeeper, his sister, a cook, a maid and an old gamekeeper. Later, they are joined by Lewis Mowbray, who comes to work as a handyman in the manor. Angus father Charlie Killins former handyman is now a sailor in the Royal Navy and has been missing since his ship was sunk in the war a year ago Angus is unable to accept that it is unlikely he will ever come home.One day, while collecting seashells, he discovers what appears to be a large mysterious egg in the sand, which he leaves it in his fathers shed. When he returns later, an unknown creature hatches which he calls Crusoe after Robinson Crusoe that becomes the fabled Loch Ness Monster. Angus keeps the creature a secret, but eventually tells his sister and reluctantly Lewis about it. Lewis explains to Angus that it is a genderless Water Horse that lays one egg, then dies before it hatches. ........

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