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Summary: The Three Lives of Thomasina
Review: I watched this movie with all of my children. Now they are grown and wish to watch it with my grandchildren. It's a wonderful story, wonderully written and so enjoyable. Please try to get this video as soon as possible. I will buy it and many people I know will buy it.
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Summary: Thomasina is da bomb!
Review: I'm a cynical person who hates any kind of emotional manipulation in a film, I'm easily bored by most things except hip hop and drum n bass.
I have watched this film many times and always on my own as it is guaranteed to reduce me to tears. The funeral scene is especially moving.
Perfect Sunday afternoon viewing after a hectic saturday night if you know what I mean. ;)
Guaranteed to melt you heart and leave you feeling that the world is a loving place, full of fluffy animals and wise children.
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Summary: One of Disney's Greatest!
Review: I, like many people, enjoy most of if not all Disney movies. Thomasina is definetly one of the best Disney ever came out with. It rates right up there with Mary Poppins and Old Yeller. Unfortunately, this classic was some how forgotten through the years. If you give Thomasina a chance, I garuntee you and your kids will not be disappointed!
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Summary: Overcoming Grief
Review: It's about a girl in Scotland who loves her cat Thomasina, and her father, who is a vet, must put the cat to sleep because she has a terrible disease. The children go around spreading rumors so that the father will go out of business. They spread the message that the father supposedly hates animals and doesn't care about them- he only want to kill them. The vet's reputation is ruined, although he is a very good, caring vet. He seems uncaring because of the grief of his wife's death overshadowing his life. Friends tell him to treat his daughter with more love and to remarry, but he feels too much pain to do so. The children bury the cat, and a woman who lives in the forest who is called a witch finds her and restores her to health. This "witch" is a beautiful, kind woman who takes care of animals. The little girl will not let anyone console her- she basically goes insane and lives in her own little sad world now. She almost dies of pnemonia, until Thomasina returns after her father praying for her. A very touching tale of forgiveness and overcoming grief.
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Summary: enduring classic: full of heart, magic and tenderness
Review: magical reminder of how innocence, empathy and love for living creatures enhances the lives of both children and adults -- how much they have to teach us about ourselves and the world. One of my favorite films!
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Summary: The Three Lives of Thomasina
Review: My all time favorite movie! This movie is perfect for all ages!
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Summary: The Three Lives of Thomasina
Review: My all time favorite movie! This movie is perfect for all ages!
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Summary: Three Lives -- One Cat for all
Review: No one seems to get the point of this movie. I saw it recently, and then about five years ago, plus a few times before that. But I noticed that they used at least two noticeably different cats in this production.No problem. At least no one painted one cat to look like the other! This movie was about grief and loss and getting on with one's life in spite of it. The veterinarian (Patrick McGoohan) who has been trained to be scientific, lost his wife five years prior to the happenings in this film. When his daughter (Karen Dotrice) believes her father responsible for the death of her beloved Thomasina, she withdraws and almost dies of pneumonia, save for the fact that her beloved red tabby came back from cat heaven. I love this movie now and I did when I was a kid, but it reveals different dimensions to me now. I noticed how it addresses the apparent power of gossip to overcome good deeds. Patrick McGoohan's character saved the life of a blind man's guide dog when his daughter's Thomasina needed help, and after that, a campaign of gossip against him by Mary's friends caused some clients to turn away from his veterinary service. However, the movie did present friends arguing in his favor, and he did visit with the "witch" woman, Lori (played by Susan Hampshire), to begin a healing process which ultimately led to the conclusion of the film: Andrew MacDhui (Patrick McGoohan0, his new missus (Susan Hampshire), their housekeeper, Mary MacDhui (Karen Dotrice) and Thomasina (played by herselves), seating around their dining table enjoying a family meal together.
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Summary: Paul Gallico's endearing fable turned into a Disney classic
Review: Paul Gallico's charming little story "Thomasina" is turned into an equally lovely little Disney film from 1964 directed by Don Chaffey ("Greyfriars Bobby"). Veterinarian Andrew MacDhui (Patrick McGoohan) is a widower who is raising his young daughter Mary (Karen Dotrice) in Scotland in 1912. Andrew has no empathy for the townsfolk who love their pets and when Mary's beloved cat Thomasina is injured he quickly decides the animal should be killed. Mary is distraught and Andrew simply cannot understand why the logic of the situation is not clear to the girl. Mary and her friends prepare an elaborate funeral for Thomasina, at which point Lori MacGregor (Susan Hampshire) shows up. The children think she is a witch, but in truth she lives in the woods and nurses injured animals back to health using love and common sense. Lori recognizes the cat is not dead and takes it home to help it recover, during which time Thomasina goes to Cat Heaven in a marvelously fanciful sequence. Andrew has a bad reputation with the locals because he killed his daughter's cat and they start taking their pets to Lori. Andrew finally goes to see her and is not so busy being impressed by her healing skills that he fails to fall in love with her. But then Mary sees Thomasina walking outside her house and chases after her in a driving storm and ends up catching pneumonia. The doctors hold out no hope to the frantic Andrew, and Lori tells him that only he can help Mary recover using the power of love. Lots of Disney movies have a cold-hearted adult transformed into a human being, and "The Three Lives of Thomasina" is one of the best of this type of film, even better than "Pollyanna. " This is mainly because it has the virtue of a first-rate cast, from McGoohan, Hampshire and Dotrice as the three principles to Finlay Currie and Laurence Naismith standing out in the supporting cast. Elspeth March supplies the voice of Thomasina, who gets to comment on the action from time to time, and Matthew Garber, who went on with Dotrice to play the kids in "Mary Poppins," also has a small role. But at the heart of this film is Paul Gallico's endearing fable. I think this is just a nice little film and I am not even a cat person.
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Summary: Paul Gallico's endearing fable turned into a Disney classic
Review: Paul Gallico's charming little story "Thomasina" is turned into an equally lovely little Disney film from 1964 directed by Don Chaffey ("Greyfriars Bobby"). Veterinarian Andrew MacDhui (Patrick McGoohan) is a widower who is raising his young daughter Mary (Karen Dotrice) in Scotland in 1912. Andrew has no empathy for the townsfolk who love their pets and when Mary's beloved cat Thomasina is injured he quickly decides the animal should be killed. Mary is distraught and Andrew simply cannot understand why the logic of the situation is not clear to the girl. Mary and her friends prepare an elaborate funeral for Thomasina, at which point Lori MacGregor (Susan Hampshire) shows up. The children think she is a witch, but in truth she lives in the woods and nurses injured animals back to health using love and common sense. Lori recognizes the cat is not dead and takes it home to help it recover, during which time Thomasina goes to Cat Heaven in a marvelously fanciful sequence. Andrew has a bad reputation with the locals because he killed his daughter's cat and they start taking their pets to Lori. Andrew finally goes to see her and is not so busy being impressed by her healing skills that he fails to fall in love with her. But then Mary sees Thomasina walking outside her house and chases after her in a driving storm and ends up catching pneumonia. The doctors hold out no hope to the frantic Andrew, and Lori tells him that only he can help Mary recover using the power of love. Lots of Disney movies have a cold-hearted adult transformed into a human being, and "The Three Lives of Thomasina" is one of the best of this type of film, even better than "Pollyanna. " This is mainly because it has the virtue of a first-rate cast, from McGoohan, Hampshire and Dotrice as the three principles to Finlay Currie and Laurence Naismith standing out in the supporting cast. Elspeth March supplies the voice of Thomasina, who gets to comment on the action from time to time, and Matthew Garber, who went on with Dotrice to play the kids in "Mary Poppins," also has a small role. But at the heart of this film is Paul Gallico's endearing fable. I think this is just a nice little film and I am not even a cat person.
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