The water horse : legend of the deep
(DVD)

Title from container.

Based on a novel The water horse by Dick King-Smith.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.

Director of photography, Oliver Stapleton ; editor, Mark Warner ; music, James Newton Howard ; costume designer, John Bloomfield ; production designer, Tony Burrough ; special effects supervisor, David Harris ; visual effects supervisors, Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, R. Christopher White, Erik Winquist.

Bruce Allpress, Eddie Campbell, Ben Chaplin, Peter Corrigan, Brian Cox, Carl Dixon, Alex Etel, Nathan Christopher Haase, Craig Hall, Ian Harcourt, Megan Katherine.

Present day Scotland. A tale is told to a couple of American tourists by a kindly gentleman in a pub. Angus is a lonely boy who pines for his father, who is serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. Angus, along with his sister and mother, live on an estate that has been billeted by soldiers in the Scottish Highlands, near Loch Ness. The troop's commander has an eye for mom, is suspicious about a mysterious handyman, Lewis, who is also a war hero, and an absurd contention that the Highlands are the real frontline in the war against Germany. Angus discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Celtic mythology. The creature befriends Angus and will eventually be known as the Loch Ness Monster. Trying to hide the dinosaur-like creature, nicknamed Crusoe, Angus enlists Lewis to transfer it to the lake, where boy and serpent have extraordinary adventures together until human stupidity threatens Crusoe's existence.

MPAA rating: PG; for some action/peril, mild language and brief smoking.

DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) and anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital.

English or dubbed French dialogue, English or French subtitles; closed-captioned.