Prancer | | Cast : | Sam Elliott, Cloris Leachman | | Director : | John D. Hancock | | Studio : | MGM/UA Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | November 17, 1989 | | DVD Released Date : | October 02, 2001 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | G (General Audience) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | February 13, 2005 | | Summary | Not a bad children's movie, but adults may be bored | Content
 | When 8-year old Jessie (Rebecca Harrell) rescues a stray reindeer whom she firmly believes is Santa's Prancer, she tries to keep it a secret from her disapproving father (Sam Elliott). She hides Prancer in a tool shed and does chores around the neighborhood to pay for his feed (Prancer is animatronic, so I doubt he eats much). Jessie decides to write to Santa Claus about their predicament and gives her letter to a shopping mall Santa, instructing him to deliver it to the real St. Nick. But you can't trust those phony-bearded department store Santas - the guy gives her correspondence to the town paper, who publishes it. The secret is out, and Dad is mad. Unoriginal film, but cute and harmless enough.
Staci Layne Wilson
Author of Staci's Guide to Animal Movies |
| Rating | | | Date | November 27, 2004 | | Summary | Just didn't hold my interest. | Content
| I bought this DVD because the cover looked nice and the plot sounded interesting. But despite the high quality of the actual picture, the cinematography was not quite what I've come to expect of in modern movies, and I thought the whole film could have used a healthy dose of editing. I had been looking forward to watching it with a friend, but we both lost interest within 20 minutes. I tried again later on my own, but didn't make it much farther. Thankfully there was a minor glitch in the DVD menu, so I was able to persuade the store to take it back and let me get a different DVD.
If you're really into Christmas movies, you might like this one, but if you're used to the latest cinematography techniques, riveting plots, and DVD's with all the extras, then you had better at least rent this one before you buy it. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 17, 2004 | | Summary | If you believe... so shall it be | Content
| This is one of the best Christmas movies to be released since the Rankin/Bass classics of yesteryear. It touches every heart, young and old. Christmas has become so commercialized, and this brings us back to reality in a fantasy sort of way. When you have faith in something as much as you see in this film, anything is possible. Heart warming, family oriented, and just a great story! |
| Rating | | | Date | December 19, 2003 | | Summary | The Ending Kept It From Being 5 Stars | Content
| 12/19/03 Purchased this VHS recently from a supermarket which carries "archival videos" at discount. I found the story entriguing ,mainly because of the strong thread around the "hope" that the little girl(Jesse) with the help of her brother(Steve) and her dad was going to evolve away from the more agressive behaviour that she'd picked up in this household (of "boys and men") excluding herself and the aunt who lived 30 miles away from this struggling farm,who came ongoingly to help them who wanted to take her to live with her husband and herself away to the better environment for a little girl.By the end of the movie you're starting to be concerned for the Reindeer,that missed her father's bullets early in the movie ,not as a "deer hunter" but as "a mercy killer" since the deer's leg was wounded (named Prancer),she does odd jobs for ecentric neighbor(played by Cloris Leachman)to get Oat money for the reindeer,gives the dept. store Santa a letter to give to "the real Santa" to inform him that she's got "Prancer" safely stodded away";unfortunately the letter exposes to all the whereabouts of the Reindeer and just when things are looking"good"(for the Reindeer)[ her dad gets paid $200 for the Reindeer to promote the Xmas Tree business], alas they give the "tree merchant" his money back,take the reindeer out of the Xmas trees merchant's safe environment to take him back to "the Antler Ridge" which is usually used for "deer hunting" and let his little hoof prints imprint that "blizzard of a snow storm" up to a cliff as she(Jesse) then wonders did he survive a fall over the cliff..the last seen is a cameo of "the Santa & his reindeer fleet" flying across the sky with a full moon in the background.Besides the movie "All My To Give"(about a group of kids whose mother dies and the oldest kid has the task to give the kids to various families whom he thinks are best for raising his brothers and sisters):made sadder with a chained melody of flute music in the background ,this movie "Prancer" was one of the "most thought provoking "children's movies" I've seen through the years. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 06, 2003 | | Summary | Prancer | Content
| A really nice movie for kids and adults during the Christmas season. This isn't a Hollywood blockbuster like Cat in the Hat , etc. The only extra on this DVD is the movie trailer. There also wasn't any reading material included. But the movie is so well made you won't miss any of the usual bells and whistles. The quality of both sound and picture are up to what DVD viewers have come to expect.
I'm pleased with this purchase. It has good entertainment value for everyone in my family.
John Row |
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