The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep is a 2007 fantasy film directed by Jay Russell. The screenplay was written by Robert Nelson Jacobs, based on the novel The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith. The film stars Alex Etel as the juvenile lead, and Emily Watson and David Morrissey as the principal adult characters. The film was released in the United States on December 25, 2007 and will be released in the United Kingdom on February 1, 2008.
The story combines fantasy with real world legend as a young Scottish boy named Angus discovers a mysterious egg that soon hatches a bizarre dragon/dinosaur-like creature. Angus names him Crusoe. Soon after Crusoe grows too big to be hidden within Angus’s home, he’s placed in Loch Ness, where he becomes the famous Loch Ness Monster.
Fictional musician Dewey Cox skyrockets from humble beginnings in Springberry, Alabama and eventually gets caught up in the fame of rock and roll. He begins to hang out with the big time people such as Elvis Presley and the Beatles. Jenna Fischer plays his backup singer and second wife, Darlene. His was first married to his first wife Edith with whom he had many kids, but the marriage was over when she found Dewey about to have sex with Darlene. One of the pervasive themes of the movie is the fact that he accidentally cut his brother in half at the waist when he was a child (a reference to Johnny Cash’s older brother Jack, who was almost cut in half by a table saw and died from his injuries).
