Tall Tale (1995)
Released | 1995-03-24 | Adventure-Western-Family | 98m | 6.3/10
Janusz Kamiński (Director of Photography) | Jeremiah S. Chechik (Director) | Steve Bloom (Writer) | Robert Rodat (Writer) | Joe Roth (Producer) | Roger Birnbaum (Producer) | Jim Dultz (Art Direction) | Jackie Burch (Casting) | Jerie Kelter (Set Decoration) | Richard Chew (Editor) | Bill Badalato (Executive Producer) | Randy Edelman (Original Music Composer) | Rick Heinrichs (Art Direction) | Eugenio Zanetti (Production Design) | Kirsten W. Welles (Associate Producer) | Wayne A. Finkelman (Costume Design) |
A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. When Daniel Hackett sees his father Jonas gravely wounded by the villainous Stiles, his first urge is for his family to flee the danger, and give up their life on a farm which Daniel has come to despise anyway. Going alone to a lake to try to decide what to do, he falls asleep on a boat and wakes to find himself in the wild west, in the company of such "tall tale" legends as Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Calamity Jane. Together, they battle the same villains Daniel is facing in his "real" world, ending with a heroic confrontation in which the boy stands up to Stiles and his henchmen, and rallies his neighbors to fight back against land grabbers who want to destroy their town.
Patrick Swayze (Pecos Bill) | Oliver Platt (Paul Bunyan) | Roger Aaron Brown (John Henry) | Nick Stahl (Daniel Hackett) | Scott Glenn (J.P. Stiles) | Stephen Lang (Jonas Hackett) | Jared Harris (Head Thug Pug) | Catherine O'Hara (Calamity Jane) | Burgess Meredith (Old Man (uncredited)) | Scott Wilson (Zeb) | William H. Macy (Railroad Magnate) | Moira Sinise (Mary Hackett) |
