The Yearling (1994 film)

The Yearling (1994 film)
Directed by Rod Hardy
Produced by Edwin Self
Written by Joe Wiesenfeld (screenplay)
Based on The Yearling
1938 novel
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Starring Peter Strauss
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Music by Lee Holdridge
Cinematography David Connell
Edited by Richard Bracken
Production
company
RHI Entertainment
Showcase Productions International
Distributed by CBS
Turner Entertainment
Release dates
April 24, 1994
Running time
90 min.
Language English

The Yearling is a 1994 TV movie based on The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings that aired on CBS on April 24, 1994. It was produced by RHI Entertainment and was sponsored by Kraft General Foods. This TV version was also a remake of the 1946 film The Yearling starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman.

Plot

A young, impoverished 12 year-old boy named Jody Baxter (Wil Horneff), the lone surviving child of four, lives on a farm in 1870s Florida Everglades shortly after the American Civil War. Jody develops a lasting bond with an orphaned deer named Flag.

Cast

Reception

Reviewer Drew Voros of Variety wrote that "the absence of true grit and dirt-under-fingernails feeling weaken the believability of the drama," though "like the novel and the ’46 film version, death is taken very seriously, and life is not taken for granted. For this alone, despite the glitches, young viewers should be encouraged to watch."[1]

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