Meanwhile, Lewis decides Crusoe is so big they have to free it in the loch.Ĭaptain Hamilton proclaims Lewis to be a bad influence, and Angus' mother allows him to teach Angus some discipline. An artillery battery is set up near the lake to defend against German U-boats while the troops set up on the grounds. Royal Air Force troops arrive at the house, commanded by Captain Thomas Hamilton – a friend of Lord Killin. Lewis explains that it is a genderless " Water Horse" that lays one egg, then dies before it hatches. He decides to keep the creature a secret, eventually telling his sister and Lewis. One day, while collecting seashells, Angus discovers a large, mysterious egg in the sand, and an unknown creature hatches, which he calls 'Crusoe' after Robinson Crusoe. Angus' father Charles, the former handyman, is a sailor in the Royal Navy, missing since his ship was sunk in the war a year ago Angus is unable to accept that he won't return. Lewis Mowbray comes to work as a handyman there. In 1942 during World War II, a boy named Angus MacMorrow lives in the manor house of Lord Killin on Loch Ness with his mother Anne MacMorrow and his sister, Kirstie. In present-day Scotland, a couple of American tourists meet an old man who, upon request (after seeing the surgeon's photo), tells them about the Loch Ness Monster and why the photo is a fake. The Water Horse was released in the United States on 25 December 2007 and in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2008. Visual effects were completed by the New Zealand-based companies Weta Digital and Weta Workshop. The film was produced by Revolution Studios and Walden Media, in collaboration with Beacon Pictures, and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film also stars Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin and David Morrissey. It stars Alex Etel as a young boy who discovers a mysterious egg and cares for what hatches out of it: a " water horse" (loosely based on the Celtic water horse) which later becomes the fabled Loch Ness Monster. The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (stylised on-screen as simply The Water Horse) is a 2007 fantasy drama film directed by Jay Russell and written by Robert Nelson Jacobs, based on Dick King-Smith's children's novel The Water Horse.
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