Toby McTeague (1986)
Directed by Jean-Claude Lord
Genres - Action, Drama |
Sub-Genres - Animal Picture, Family Drama |
Release Date - Mar 7, 1986 (USA) |
Run Time - 96 min. |
Countries - Canada |
MPAA Rating - PG
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Toby McTeague (Yannick Bisson) is a teen-aged boy, living in a flyspeck town in Northern Canada with his father and younger brother. Toby's thriving livelihood, raising and training sled dogs, is threatened by a dip in the local economy. His problems are intensified by the ongoing hostilities between Toby and his dad (Winston Reckert). Running away from home, Toby makes the acquaintance of elderly Indian chief George Wild Dog (George Clutesi), who years earlier had been "shaman," or spiritual advisor, to Toby's father. It is Chief Wild Dog who mystically brings father and son together at the film's climax, in addition to rescuing Toby's sled-dog business in a near-miraculous fashion.
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sled-dog, teenagers, chief, Native-American, small-town, Shamanism