Home on the Range

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Home on the Range
File:Homerangeposter.jpg Promotional Poster for Home on the Range
Directed by	Will Finn John Sanford
Produced by	Alice Dewey
Written by	Will Finn John Sanford
Starring	Roseanne Barr Judi Dench Cuba Gooding Jr. Randy Quaid Jennifer Tilly Steve Buscemi
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	April 2, 2004
Running time	76 min.
Language	English
Budget	$ 110,000,000
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Home on the Range is a 2004 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on April 2, 2004. The film is the forty-fourth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, and was named after the popular country song "Home on the Range".

The film stars the voices of Roseanne Barr, Judi Dench, Jennifer Tilly, Steve Buscemi, G.W. Bailey, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Randy Quaid.

WARNING: Spoilers follow here.
If you have not seen this film, it is recommended to skip to another section.

Contents 1 Plot 2 History 3 Trivia 4 Soundtrack listing 5 Cast 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Plot

The story is set in the Old West (about 1966). Unusually for a Western movie (but not a Disney film), the main characters are female: three dairy cows, brash, adventurous Maggie, prim, proper Mrs. Caloway and ditzy, happy-go-lucky Grace (voiced by Roseanne Barr, Judi Dench and Jennifer Tilly respectively), who must capture an infamous cattle rustler in order to save their idyllic farm from foreclosure. (As Grace puts it, "Who better to catch a cattle thief...than a cow?") Aiding them in their quest is Lucky Jack, a feisty, peg-legged rabbit, while an overeager stallion named Buck (Cuba Gooding Jr.) selfishly seeks the bounty – and the glory – for himself.

[edit] History

Prior to the film's release, Disney stated that it would be their last film in their animated features canon to use traditional animation. Although Disney animated films have featured some computer-generated effects for many years, Disney announced plans to move entirely to computer animation after Home on the Range, beginning with [2005]'s Chicken Little, and laid off most of its animation department. However, after the company's acquisition of Pixar in early 2006, new leaders John Lasseter and Ed Catmull decided to revive traditional animation, and announced the upcoming 2-D film, The Frog Princess. Still, Home on the Range is the final feature in the canon to use the CAPS system, which was first fully used in The Rescuers Down Under.

While critics did not generally like the film, which they felt was weak on plot^{(citation needed)}, it was universally praised for Alan Menken's return to Disney animated features.^{(citation needed)} The lyrics were written by Glenn Slater.

The film began pre-production after the release of Pocahontas in 1995. In August 2000, the film was announced as Sweating Bullets and scheduled for a fall 2003 release. The title was changed to Home on the Range in April, 2002.

This film was originally slated to have been released in November 2003, but story and production problems forced Disney to swap release dates with Brother Bear (originally slated for spring 2004) in December 2002. It was also expected to be given a G rating by the MPAA. However, sources inside Disney have indicated that a joke during the movie's opening sequence, one in which a cow's udder is subtly compared to surgically-enhanced breasts, resulted in the movie being slapped with a PG rating instead, possibly alienating some of Disney's general audience and lowering the studio's expectations of the movie at the box office.^{(citation needed)} The studio also broke from its own tradition of releasing major films at either Thanksgiving or summer vacation (to maximize the family audience), releasing it on April 2nd. There also was some speculation that Michael Eisner who had a made a controversial decision to end production of hand-drawn, 2-D animation chose this ill-timed release date to prove his contention that traditionally animated films were no longer viable. The movie went on to make $50 million in the U.S. and became one of the lowest-grossing Disney animated features ever.

[edit] Trivia

• This was the first Disney animated film to feature three female main characters. However, several of its predecessors included female heroes and villains (see Female protagonists in Disney animated films)

• The film premiered on the Starz! cable channel on the night of April 2, 2005, exactly a year after its theatrical release.
• This was the last traditionally animated Disney film released in theaters, although The Frog Princess is expected to be a return to the format.

• In the Spanish version, the movie's name is Cowboy Cows.

• In the Italian version the movie's name is Cows to the Revolt (Mucche alla Riscossa)

• In one scene, Maggie insults Buck by saying something like, "Spirit: Stallion of the Ci-moron." Since this (title) was a Dreamworks film, this studio would always poke fun at certain Disney films on their own movies, so Disney returned the favor.

[edit] Soundtrack listing

1. (You Ain't) Home On The Range - Chorus
2. Little Patch Of Heaven - K D Lang
3. Yodel-Adle-Eedle-Idle-Oo - Chorus
4. Will The Sun Ever Shine Again - Bonnie Raitt
5. (You Ain't) Home On The Range - Echo Mine Reprise - Chorus
6. Wherever The Trail May Lead - Tim McGraw
7. Anytime You Need A Friend - The Beu Sisters
8. Cows In Town/Saloon Song
9. On The Farm
10. Bad News
11. Storm And The Aftermath
12. Cows To The Rescue
13. Buck
14. My Farm Is Saved/Little Patch Of Heaven - Finale
15. Anytime You Need A Friend

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Roseanne Barr	Maggie
Judi Dench	Mrs. Caloway
Jennifer Tilly	Grace
Cuba Gooding Jr.	Buck
Randy Quaid	Alameda Slim
Charles Dennis	Rico
Charles Haid	Lucky Jack
Carole Cook	Pearl Gesner
Joe Flaherty	Jeb the Goat
Steve Buscemi	Wesley
Richard Riehle	Sam the sheriff
Lance Legault	Junior
G.W. Bailey	Rusty
Patrick Warburton	Patrick
Estelle Harris	Audrey the Chicken

[edit] See also

• List of animated feature films

[edit] External links

• Official web site
• Home on the Range at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Home on the Range at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB)

• Home on the Range at UltimateDisney.com
• Home on the Range at Rotten Tomatoes
• Home on the Range at Metacritic
• Home on the Range at Box Office Mojo

v • d • e Disney theatrical animated features
Official canon (Walt Disney Animated Classics)	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) • Pinocchio (1940) • Fantasia (1940) • Dumbo (1941) • Bambi (1942) • Saludos Amigos (1942) • The Three Caballeros (1944) • Make Mine Music (1946) • Fun and Fancy Free (1947) • Melody Time (1948) • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) • Cinderella (1950) • Alice in Wonderland (1951) • Peter Pan (1953) • Lady and the Tramp (1955) • Sleeping Beauty (1959) • One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) • The Sword in the Stone (1963) • The Jungle Book (1967) • The Aristocats (1970) • Robin Hood (1973) • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) • The Rescuers (1977) • The Fox and the Hound (1981) • The Black Cauldron (1985) • The Great Mouse Detective (1986) • Oliver & Company (1988) • The Little Mermaid (1989) • The Rescuers Down Under (1990) • Beauty and the Beast (1991) • Aladdin (1992) • The Lion King (1994) • Pocahontas (1995) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) • Hercules (1997) • Mulan (1998) • Tarzan (1999) • Fantasia 2000 (1999) • The Emperor's New Groove (2000) • Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) • Lilo & Stitch (2002) • Treasure Planet (2002) • Brother Bear (2003) • Home on the Range (2004) • Chicken Little (2005) • Meet the Robinsons (2007) • Bolt (2008) • Rapunzel (2009) • The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Live-action films with animation	The Reluctant Dragon (1941) • Victory Through Air Power (1943) • Song of the South (1946) • So Dear to My Heart (1949) • Mary Poppins (1964) • Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) • Pete's Dragon (1977) • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) • The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) • Enchanted (2007)
DisneyToon features	DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) • A Goofy Movie (1995) • Doug's 1st Movie (1999) • The Tigger Movie (2000) • Recess: School's Out (2001) • Return to Never Land (2002) • The Jungle Book 2 (2003) • Piglet's Big Movie (2003) • Teacher's Pet (2004) • Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
Other	The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) • James and the Giant Peach (1996) • Dinosaur (2000)
See also	Pixar • Walt Disney Animation Studios

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