- Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy
- 114 min
- PG-13
Metacritic58Rotten Tomatoes80%IMDb6.6
The Neo-fairytale Film
Three mischievous children embark on a woodland odyssey when their mother sends them on an errand.
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Warm, plot-driven, cool and comic.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20247/10
This reminded me of the films produced in the UK by the Children's Film Foundation. It all centres around the adventures of three paintball-armed kids who meticulously plan a raid on a warehouse that holds games consoles. They manage to pinch one and get it home, but there they find that the television needs a password! That requires their mother - poorly with flu in bed upstairs. They manage to get her to agree to release the code if they go get her a blueberry pie. Snag? Well the baker's don't have any and the baker is on holiday. Then they decide to try to make one themselves, so coax the recipe out of "Miss Celia" (Colleen Baum) and head to the supermarket to "borrow" the ingredients. The last, most vital, speckled eggs is stolen from under their nose by "Redrye" (Charles Halford). They're not having any of this so follow him home so they can pinch them back, only to find he is part of a gang led by "Anna-Freya" (Lio Tipton), a witch of sorts, who is determined to kill the 'Prince of the Forest" (a grand and majestic old stag). Luckily for our intrepid trio, her daughter "Petal" (Lorelei Olivia Mote) had snuck out on the hunting trip and soon the four children are using all of
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Cast
- Lio TiptonAnna-Freya Hollyhock
- Charles HalfordJohn Redrye
- Charlie StoverHazel A'Dale
- Skyler PetersJodie A'Dale
- Phoebe FerroAlice
- Lorelei Olivia MotePetal Hollyhock
- Andrea BrowneKels Hollyhock
- Rachel BrowneSuds Hollyhock
- Weston RazooliMarty Hollyhock
- Austin ArcherChip / Dana Troubadour
Crew
- Weston RazooliDirector
- Weston RazooliWriter
- Jake L. MitchellDirector of Photography
- Weston RazooliEditor
- Lio TiptonProducer
- Weston RazooliProducer
- David AtrakchiProducer
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