Full-screen and widescreen presentation Digitally mastered audio and video Audio: English 5.1 [Dolby Digital] and 2-channel [Dolby Surround], Spanish, Portuguese Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai Isolated music score Theatrical trailers Talent files Interactive menus Scene selections Region: 1 Audio: DD5.1/DDS
Rating: G Genre: Children's/Family Theatrical Release: 06/02/2000(USA Release Date: 11/14/2000 SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/Por/KO/TH Dubbed: English/Espanol/Por Sound: DD5.1/DDS Run Time: 85 Minutes Flags: Excellent For Children Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
Chase Moore and Arie Verveen are the human stars of this period drama about the extraordinary life and times of a horse. In 1914, a German supply ship is en route to Africa with a cargo of work horses when one of the mares gives birth to a foal. The pony is soon separated from his mother when the ship docks in a mining community, and he has a hard time getting along, but an orphaned boy who works at a stable takes a liking to the little horse and looks after him. When war breaks out, the stable is abandoned and the pony escapes into a nearby desert, where an Oryx antelope and a native girl become his companions and teach him how to survive on his own. Running Free was directed by award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov; it was produced by Jean-Jacques Annaud, who displayed a flair for unusual stories about animals with The Bear.