Charlotte's web / Paramount Pictures and Walden Media present ; a K Entertainment Company production ; a Nickelodeon Movies production ; directed by Gary Winick ; screenplay by Susannah Grant and Karey Kirkpatrick ; produced by Jordan Kerner.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 34275 | Paramount Home Entertainment2064776 | Paramount Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French Original language: English, English Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : K Entertainment, 2006Description: 1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 1415728615
- 9781415728611
- French title: Petit monde de Charlotte
- Charlotte's web (Motion picture : 2006)
- Director of photography, Seamus McGarvey ; editors, Susan Littenberg, Sabrina Plisco ; music, Danny Elfman.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's DVD | CHARLOTT | Available | 33111009904158 | ||||
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Children's DVD
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Northport Library | Children's DVD | CHARLOTT | Available | 33111010424923 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
E.B. White's classic children's story comes to the screen in this live-action adaptation with an all-star voice cast. Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) is a young girl growing up on her family's farm. When a sow gives birth to some piglets, Fern's father (Kevin Anderson) intends to do away with the runt of litter, but Fern has become attached to the little pig and persuades her father to let him live. The pig, named Wilbur (voice of Dominic Scott Kay), becomes Fern's pet, but when he grows larger, he's put in the care of Homer Zuckerman (Gary Basaraba), a farmer down the road. Fern is still able to visit Wilbur regularly, and it soon occurs to both of them that pigs tend to have a limited life expectancy on a farm, and that unless something unusual happens, Wilbur will eventually becomes someone's dinner. Charlotte, a friendly spider, hatches a plan to make Wilbur seem special enough to save by weaving messages about the "terrific" pig into her web, and she soon persuades her barnyard friends to join in her plan. Charlotte is voiced by Julia Roberts, while the other actors who provide the voices of the animals on Zuckerman's farm include Robert Redford, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Buscemi, Kathy Bates, Cedric the Entertainer. Thomas Haden Church, and André Benjamin. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Widescreen.
Based on the book by E.B. White.
Special features: Commentary by director Gary Winick [optional audio feature]; Commentary by producer Jordan Kerner and visual effects supervisor John Andrew Berton Jr. [optional audio feature]; Making some movie [featurette] (29 min.); Some voices [featurette] (9 min.); Flacka's pig tales [featurette] (12 min.); How do they do that? [featurette] (5 min.); What makes a classic [featurette] (5 min.); Where are they now? [featurette] (7 min.); Music video "Ordinary Miracle" by Sarah McLachlan [featurette] (3 min.); Music video "Make a Wish" by Bob Carlisle and Lucy Kane [featurette] (3 min.); A day at the fair [slide show] (1 min.); Farm photo album [slide show]; Gag reel [featurette] (3 min.); Deleted scenes with optional commentary by director Gary Winick [featurette] (7 min.); World reading record [text feature]; DVD-ROM features [requires a DVD-ROM drive and Internet access]; Previews (8 min.).
Unfair & unjust -- Wilbur & Fern -- Wilbur tries to make friends -- Charlotte -- Rotten news -- Childhood phase -- Some pig -- Terrific -- Summer to fall -- Find some words -- Radiant -- County fair -- Humble -- Goodbye -- Greatest promise of all -- End credits.
Director of photography, Seamus McGarvey ; editors, Susan Littenberg, Sabrina Plisco ; music, Danny Elfman.
Julia Roberts (Charlotte), Dakota Fanning (Fern), Steve Buscemi (Templeton), John Cleese (Samuel), Oprah Winfrey (Gussy), Cedric the Entertainer (Golly), Kathy Bates (Bitsy), Reba McEntire (Betsy), Robert Redford (Ike), Thomas Haden Church (Brooks), André Benjamin (Elwyn), Dominic Scott Kay (Wilbur), Narrated by Sam Shepard, Kevin Anderson (Mr. Arable), Gary Basaraba (Homer Zuckerman), Beau Bridges (Dr. Dorian), Essie Davis (Mrs. Arable), Siobhan Fallon Hogan (Mrs. Zuckerman), Nate Mooney (Lurvy).
In ordinary Somerset County, a young farm girl named Fern rescues the runt of a litter of pigs from her father's ax. Fern names the pig Wilbur, takes care of him, and continues to visit him every day after he is moved to her Uncle Homer Zuckerman's barn across the road. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house" when Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her web, along with a little help from Templeton the rat and the other barn inhabitants, turns the Zuckerman farm into a tourist attraction.
MPAA rating: Rated G; Canadian Home Video rating: G.
Originally produced as an American motion picture in 2006.
In English or dubbed French with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned.