DISNEY’S 1993 HOMEWARD BOUND WAS RELEASED ON FEBUARY 3RD 1993.
HOMEWARD BOUND THE INCREDABLE JOURNEY IS A 1993 REMAKE OF THE 1963 FLIM THE INCREADBLE JOURNEY BASED ON THE BEST SELLING NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME BY SHELIA BURNFORD. THE FILM WAS DIRECTED BY Duwayne Dunham WHO HAS DIRECTED OTHER FILMS LITTLE GIANTS AND TELEVISON SHOWS SUCH AS JAG AND TWIN PEAKS. THE FILM STARS A GOLDEN RETREVER NAMED SHADOW VOICED BY DON AMECHE , A HIMLAYN CAT NAMED SASSY VOICED BY SALLY FEILDS AND A BULL DOG NAMED CHANCE VOICED BY MICHEAL J FOX . THE FILM WAS RELEASED ON FEBUARY 3RD 1993 AND WENT ON TO GROSS OVER $ 40 MILLION DOLLARS AT THE BOX OFFICE. THE FILM WAS CONSIDERED A SUCCESS AND A SEQUEL WAS PRODUCED AND RELEASED IN 1996 TITLED HOMEWARD BOUND 2 LOST IN SANFRANSICO. THE SEQUEL WAS FEATURED THE SAME ANIMALS AND THE SAME ACTORS VOICEING THE ANIMALS EXECPT FOR SHADOW WHO WAS VOICED BY RALPH WAITE BECAUSE DON AMECHE WHO DIED SHORTLY AFTER PLAYING HIS ROLE IN THE FIRST FILM. THE FILM WAS SHOT AT VARIOUS LOCATION’S IN OREGON . FOUR NATIONAL PARKS, MOUNT HOOD NATIONAL FORESTS , WALLOWA- WHITMAN NATIONAL FOREST AND WILLAMETTE NATIONAL FOREST. CITIES AND TOWNS IN OREGAN THAT WERE USED AS FILMING INCLUDED PORTLAND, OREGON ,BEND OREGON , OREGON JOESPH OREGON AND WALLOWA OREGON . TWO OTHER AREAS USED FOR FILMING WERE THE COLOMBIA RIVER GORGE AND EAGLE CAP WILDERNESS AREA. THIS FILM WAS RATED G BY THE MOTION PICTURE Association OF AMARICA. PLOT CHANCE IS A AMARICAIN BULL DOG PLAYED BY RATTLER VOICED BY MICHEAL J FOX AND NARRATOR OF THE FLIM OPENS THE FLIM explaining that he is the pet of Jamie Burnford (Kevin Chevalia), but expresses no interest in his owner or having a “home” having lost faith in the concept after having been abandoned as a puppy. He shares his home with Shadow, (played by Ben and voiced by Don Ameche), an older Golden Retriever owned by Jamie’s big brother Peter Burnford (Benj Thall), and Sassy, a Himalayan cat (played by Tiki and voiced by Sally Field), owned by their sister Hope (Veronica Lauren). Bob Seaver (Robert Hays) is marrying Laura Burnford (Kim Greist), joining the family. Shortly after the wedding, the family goes on a trip to San Francisco, leaving the pets at a ranch belonging to Kate (Jean Smart), a family friend. Kate later goes on a cattle drive, leaving the animals at the ranch to be looked after by one of her ranch hands. HOWEVER BY
by this time, the animals think they have been abandoned, and Shadow begins to worry about Peter, so he decides to head for home. Sassy and a reluctant Chance follow. They head into the rocky, mountainous wilderness, with Shadow leading by instinct. After a night spent in fear of the woodland noise, the group stops to catch breakfast at a river. Two black bears steal Chance’s fish, and when Chance barks at them in protest, they suddenly leave the fish and climb a tree. Chance cockily assumes that he has scared them off, but then a huge brown bear appears, causing the group to quickly flee, also. At another river, Sassy refuses to swim across to follow the dogs, running along the river until she reaches a path of wood that seems to cross its breadth. Halfway across, it breaks apart and she falls in. Shadow jumps in to try to save her, but she goes over a waterfall. Shadow and Chance search for her along the bank, but as night falls, they mourn their loss and continue without her.
A half-drowned Sassy is rescued from the river by a man who lives in the woods, who nurses her back to health. Without Sassy, the dogs struggle to catch fish from the river. A mountain lion begins stalking them. Chance spots the mountain lion while he is fishing. He tells Shadow, but Shadow does not believe him until he sees it himself. The mountain lion follows them to the edge of a cliff. Chance, in a “just in case I don’t make it, this is where my treasures are” statement, tells Shadow where he has buried everything at home. When Chance mentions that the remote control is buried under the seesaw, Shadow sees a balanced rock shaped like a seesaw, which gives him an idea. Shadow comes up with a plan to defeat the mountain lion. While Shadow acts as the bait, Chance waits until the mountain lion steps onto the end of the rock that’s touching the ground, and jumps on the other end, sending the mountain lion flying over the cliff and into a river. The mountain lion retreats, filled with humiliation and irritation at its defeat. Sassy hears them barking in celebration and follows the sound to rejoin them.
The animals continue on their way, but Chance tries to befriend a porcupine, ending up with a load of quills from its tail in his muzzle when it grows irritated at him and swats him in retaliation. His friends are unable to pull them out, and as they journey on, they find a little girl named Molly (Mariah Milner), who is (for an unexplained reason) lost in the woods. Too loyal to ignore her, they stand guard over her during the night and keep her warm. In the morning, Shadow finds a rescue party, which includes Molly’s parents, and leads them back to her. Molly’s father thanks Shadow for saving his daughter’s life.
The forest rangers with the party recognize the animals from a “missing pets” flyer they received and take them to the local animal shelter, which is dubbed by Chance as the “Pound”. Because Chance has had previous experiences with being in a dog pound and a subject that Shadow never believed was an actual place, he panics and warns the others to run. Sassy gets away while he and Shadow are taken inside. As the medical staff remove the quills from Chance’s muzzle, Sassy sneaks in and frees Shadow. Together they retrieve Chance, now quill-free, and escape the shelter, without realizing that their owners were on their way to get them and take them home.
Finally, after much traveling, the trio reaches the outskirts of their hometown. By this point Chance is actually looking forward to seeing Jamie again, having a change of heart. They cross through a train yard when Shadow falls through some old boards into a muddy pit, injuring his leg. With Sassy and Chance persuading him, he tries to climb out of the pit, but is unable to do so. Lying down, he says he is too old and that they should go on without him. Chance jumps into the pit to try to get him going, but Shadow refuses to move. He almost dies, much to Chance’s sadness. Near dusk, the family is out in the backyard playing basketball, when Jamie claims to hear Chance barking. The others think he is imagining things, but moments later Chance comes running over a hill, happily tackling “his boy”. Sassy follows to be reunited with Hope, and Peter hopefully looks for Shadow, but when he doesn’t show up, Peter says he was too old and it was too far of a walk for him and turns to go back inside. As he does, Shadow, very much alive, is seen limping over the hill (how he able to get out of the muddy pit is unknown). Peter turns back around and shouts Shadow’s name as the two run towards each other.
As everyone watches, Chance narrates how it was Shadow’s belief that brought them home and how the years seemed to lift off of him, making him a puppy again after being reunited with his best friend. While everyone goes inside, Chance stays behind for a moment, ending his narration by saying he had a family and for the first time in his life, he was really home before happily running into the house. I REALLY REALLY REALLY LOVE THIS 90S LIVE ACTION DISNEY MOVIE THERE ARE NO BAD GUYS EVERYONE IS THE GOOD GUYS I GIVE 50,OOOOOOOOOO PINK PURPLE GOLD SILVER AND ORANGE STARS HEARTS AND SMILEY FACES.
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