Home on the Range

Theatrical Release Date: 2004 04 02 (USA)

UPC: 786936243505

Studio: Walt Disney Video

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Suitable for Children, Scatological Humor]

Summary: Disney presents the animated musical Western Home on the Range, featuring an original musical score by Alan Menken. The Little Piece of Heaven family farm is about to go under and outlaw cattle rustler Alameda Slim (voice of Randy Quaid) sets his sights on it. Three dairy cows -- tough Maggie (voice of Roseanne Barr), leader Mrs. Calloway (voice of Judi Dench), and na?ve Grace (voice of Jennifer Tilly) -- team up to save the farm. Along with ambitious stallion Buck (voice of Cuba Gooding Jr.), helpful rabbit Lucky Jack (voice of Charles Haid), and other helpful barnyard friends, the cows set out to capture Alameda Slim and collect the reward money. However, a vicious bounty hunter (voice of Charles Dennis) is also after Slim. The film features vocal performances by Bonnie Raitt, k.d. lang, and Tim McGraw. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

Category: Children's/Family

Features: ccAll-new animated short "A Dairy Tale: The Three Little Pigs"
Four deleted scenes with filmmaker intros
Games & activities: Yodel Memory Game, Yodel Maker DVD-ROM, The Joke Corral (deleted jokes)
Music video: "Anytime You Need a Friend" performed by the Beu Sisters
"Trailblazers: The Making of Home on the Range"

Home on the Range

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 09/14/2004

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Vistavision

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, THX THX-Certified Mastering

Runtime: 76 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. "Home on the Range" [2:29]
2. "A Little Patch of Heaven" [3:03]
3. Meet Maggie [2:50]
4. Foreclosure [2:56]
5. Save the Farm [2:30]
6. Grace Notes [1:08]
7. Buck's Dream [1:56]
8. City Slickers [2:51]
9. Bounty Hunting [4:20]
10. Ranch Auction [1:25]
11. Bum Steers [1:39]
12. "Yodel-Adle-Eedle-Idle-Oo" [2:47]
13. Partner or No Partner [4:03]
14. Every Last Acre Counts [2:51]
15. Up for Bid [2:08]
16. Flash Flood [3:20]
17. "Will the Sun Ever Shine Again?" [2:12]
18. Lucky Jack - Desert Sage [3:31]
19. "Home on the Range" Reprise [:30]
20. Wesley Arrives [1:09]
21. Cows Only [1:59]
22. A Simple Plan [3:25]
23. Get Slim! [2:43]
24. Buck's Turn [4:54]
25. To the Rescue [:52]
26. The Showdown [4:23]
27. Home, Sweet Home [1:38]
28. "Wherever the Trail May Lead" (End Credits) [3:29]
29. "Anytime You Need a Friend" [2:50]

Derek Armstrong

This is the way Disney's hand-drawn animation department ends -- not with a bang, but a whimper. Like a veteran ballplayer continuing to suit up after the onset of arthritis, Home on the Range stumbles in at just over 70 minutes, a pale shadow of the giants that revived the studio's clout in the 1990s. It may feature a handful of plucky cows, but the film was far short of a cash cow, returning only $50 million domestically on its reported $110 million budget. It's not that Home on the Range is bad, so much as colossally unimportant. It's easy to see why Disney rarely strays from fairy tales or other stories in the public domain, because this saga of three cows protecting the farm from Old West archetypes and other varmints is small and flavorless. Save a few angular landscapes and sharply designed characters, the animators seem to have given up on being inventive, knowing that their jobs would not survive this project. Home on the Range does have a wickedly metaphorical undercurrent, as the plot involves the closure of numerous farms and ranches -- the end of the old way of doing things. But Home on the Range would only entertain the youngest tykes even if it had been CG. Seeing as how the film is aimed at such an infantile demographic, it's all the more strange that they slapped a PG rating on what amounts to a totally inoffensive piece of insignificance. Happy trails, Disney, until we meet again -- if we ever do. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi

Cast and Crew: David Burnham  Actor 
Jason Graae  Actor 
Mark Walton  Actor 
Mark Walton  Actor 
Ja'net DuBois  Actor 
Sarah Jessica Parker  Actor 
Gregory Jbara  Actor 
Alan Menken  Composer (Music Score) 
Will Finn  Director 
Will Finn  Screenwriter 
John Sanford  Director 
John Sanford  Screenwriter 
Alice Dewey Goldstone  Producer 
Alan Mencken  Composer (Music Score) 
Roseanne Barr  Actor 
Judi Dench  Actor 
Jennifer Tilly  Actor 
Cuba Gooding, Jr.  Actor 
Randy Quaid  Actor 
Steve Buscemi  Actor 
Carole Cook  Actor 
Richard Riehle  Actor 
Charles Dennis  Actor 
G.W. Bailey  Actor 
Charles Haid  Actor 
Estelle Harris  Actor 
Joe Flaherty  Actor 
Charlie Dell  Actor 
Patrick Warburton  Actor 
Gov. Ann Richards  Actor 
Sam Levine  Actor 
Sam Levine  Actor 
Sam Levine  Actor 

Country: USA