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Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale is a film of genre Comedy released in USA on 9 april 1987 with John Clarke
Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale (1986)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 9 april 1987
Length 1h11
Rating69%
Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale (stylised on posters and titles as Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tail Tale) is a 1986 New Zealand-Australian animated comedy film directed by Murray Ball, produced by John Barnett and Pat Cox with music by Dave Dobbyn and written by Tom Scott and Murray Ball. It was based on cartoonist Murray Ball's comic strip Footrot Flats. The film features the voices of John Clarke, Peter Rowley, Rawiri Paratene, Fiona Samuel, Peter Hayden, Dorothy McKegg, Billy T. James, Brian Sergent, Marshall Napier and Michael Haigh. It was New Zealand's first feature-length animated film. The film was theatrically released on 9 April 1986 by Kerridge-Odeon. Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale grossed $2,500,000 at the New Zealand box office (making it one of the most successful local films of the 1980s).
In Australia it grossed $4,317,000 which is equivalent to $8,677,170 in 2009.
The film began as an idea from producer Pat Cox who suggested to Murray his popular comic strip be made into a feature-length movie. Once Murray and writer Tom Scott had worked together to complete the script animator Robbert Smit was brought on to ensure the animation was successful. The main challenge faced in the animation was to get the voice acting right so that audiences who had created their own voice for the characters through the comic strip could relate it. This was solved by employing a cast of New Zealand's best comedy talent at the time. Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale was first release in October 1986 on VHS. It was later release on DVD on the 9 of April 2004 for its 18th anniversary. It was re-released on DVD and for the first time on Blu-ray on the 12th of January 2011.
Synopsis
Wal Footrot (John Clarke) and Cooch Windgrass (Peter Hayden) are shearing sheep on Wal's farm. Cheeky Hobson (Fiona Samuel), Wal's girlfriend, is driving on the highway when she is driven off the road by the Murphy brothers, Spit (Brian Sergent) and Hunk (Marshall Napier), flying in a helicopter. The Murphys then terrorise Wal's property, leaving Dog (Peter Rowley) to drown in a sheep pit. As he is in the water, he has a flashback of when he was a little pup: how he was united with Wal for the first time, a gift from Aunt Dolly (Dorothy McKegg), and how he met Jess, who was nearly drowned by Spit and Hunk. Soon, Wal wakes Dog and Cooch and the dogs manage to foil the Murphys, who were in the process of capturing Cooch's deer.Actors
John Clarke
(Wal (voice))
Rawiri Paratene
(Rangi (voice))
Peter Rowley
(Dog (voice))
Billy T James
(Pawai (voice))
Marshall Napier
(Hunk Murphy (voice))
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