Home on the Range (2004)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Directors:

Will Finn
John Sanford

Writers:

Will Finn (written by) and
John Sanford (written by) ...
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Release Date:

2 April 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Music | Western

Tagline:

Bust a Moo.

Plot:

To save their farm, the resident animals go bounty hunting for a notorious outlaw.

Plot Keywords:

Farm | Cow | Cattle Rustler | Horse | Rabbit

Awards:

5 nominations

Cast

G.W. Bailey	...	Rusty, the Dog (voice)
Roseanne	...	Maggie (voice) (as Roseanne Barr)
Bobby Block	...	Piggy (voice)
Steve Buscemi	...	Wesley (voice)
Carole Cook	...	Pearl Gesner (voice)
Charlie Dell	...	Ollie, the Pig (voice)
Judi Dench	...	Mrs. Caloway (voice)
Charles Dennis	...	Rico (voice)
Marshall Efron	...	Larry, the Duck (voice)
Joe Flaherty	...	Jeb, the Goat (voice)
Cuba Gooding Jr.	...	Buck (voice)
Charles Haid	...	Lucky Jack (voice)
Estelle Harris	...	Audrey, the Chicken (voice)
Lance LeGault	...	Junior, the Buffalo (voice)
Sam J. Levine	...	The Willie Brothers (voice)
Randy Quaid	...	Alameda Slim (voice)
Ann Richards	...	Annie (voice) (as Governor Ann Richards)
Richard Riehle	...	Sheriff Sam Brown
Keaton Savage	...	Piggy (voice)
Ross Simanteris	...	Piggy (voice)
Jennifer Tilly	...	Grace (voice)
Mark Walton	...	Barry & Bob, the Longhorns (voice)
Patrick Warburton	...	Patrick (voice)
Dennis Weaver	...	Abner (voice)
Mike Bell	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Tim Blevins	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Bob Bouchard	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Tami Tappan Damiano	...	Additional Voice (voice) (as Tami Tappin Damiano)
Debi Derryberry	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Randy Erwin	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Troy Evans	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Bill Farmer	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Linda Griffin	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Pam Hamill	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Roger Jackson	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Leslie Jordan	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Linda Kerns	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Kevin Ligon	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Edie McClurg	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Mickie McGowan	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Jordan Orr	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Wilbur Pauley	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Phil Proctor	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Evan Sabara	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Garnett Sailor	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Peter Samuel	...	Additional Voice (voice)
John Sanford	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Peter Siragusa	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Jim Ward	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Joe Whyte	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Bruce A. Young	...	Additional Voice (voice)
Roger Yuan	...	Additional Voice (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Burnham	...	Willie Brother #1 (voice)
Jason Graae	...	Willie Brother #2 (voice)
Gregory Jbara	...	Willie Brother #3 (voice)

Directed by
Will Finn
John Sanford

Writing credits
Will Finn		(written by) and
John Sanford		(written by)
Will Finn		(story) &
John Sanford		(story) &
Michael LaBash		(story) &
Sam J. Levine		(story) (as Sam Levine) &
Mark Kennedy		(story) &
Robert Lence		(story)
Shirley Pierce		(additional dialogue)
Keith Baxter		additional story
Don Hall		additional story (uncredited)
Mike Kunkel		additional story
Anthony Leondis		story
Jason Lethcoe		additional story
Davy Liu		additional story
Donnie Long		additional story
John Norton		additional story (uncredited)
Brian Pimental		additional story
David Moses Pimentel		additional story
Ralph Zondag		additional story

Produced by
Alice Dewey	....	producer (as Alice Dewey Goldstone)
David J. Steinberg	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Alan Menken

Film Editing by
H. Lee Peterson

Casting by
Matthew Jon Beck
Mary Hidalgo

Production Design by
David Cutler

Art Direction by
David Cutler

Production Management
Tamara Boutcher	....	production manager
Fred Herrman	....	assistant production manager
Tim Kwan	....	assistant production manager
Cathy McGowan Leahy	....	production manager
Tina M. Pedigo	....	assistant production manager
Berenice Robinson	....	post-production manager

Art Department
Dennis Blakey	....	artistic coordinator
Mike Gabriel	....	visual development artist
Vance Gerry	....	additional visual development
Michael Giaimo	....	visual development artist
Carter Goodrich	....	additional visual development
Joe Grant	....	additional visual development
Dennis Greco	....	additional visual development
Kevin Harkey	....	storyboard artist
Carole Holliday	....	additional visual development
Michael Humphries	....	visual development artist
Karen A. Keller	....	visual development artist
Craig Kellman	....	additional visual development
Sam J. Levine	....	storyboard artist (as Sam Levine)
Jill Petrilak	....	visual development artist (as Jill A. Petrilak)
Carol Kieffer Police	....	visual development artist
Caren Scarpulla	....	visual development artist
Chris Ure	....	visual development artist (as Christopher J. Ure)
Mark Walton	....	storyboard artist
Fred Warter	....	visual development artist
Will Weston	....	assistant layout artist

Sound Department
Jim Brookshire	....	adr supervisor
Vince Caro	....	adr recordist
Tim Chau	....	sound designer
Dan Cubert	....	sound mixer
Diana Flores	....	adr mixer
Albert Gasser	....	sound editor
Randall Guth	....	first assistant sound ediotr
Nils C. Jensen	....	sound effects editor
Steve Kohler	....	pre-mix recordist
Alyson Dee Moore	....	foley artist
Chris Pinkston	....	sound
Terry Porter	....	sound re-recording mixer
John Roesch	....	foley artist
Dean A. Zupancic	....	sound re-recording mixer

Special Effects by
Dorse A. Lanpher	....	special effects
Mauro Maressa	....	effects animator
Joseph C. Pepe	....	effects key assistant

Visual Effects by
Sean Applegate	....	visual effects animator
Allen Blyth	....	visual effects animator
Edward Derian Boyke	....	technology support
Bruce D. Buckley	....	digital artist
Craig Caton	....	layout technical director
Dan Chaika	....	visual effects animator
Glen Claybrook	....	scene planner
Peter DeMund	....	visual effects animator
James DeValera Mansfield	....	senior effects animator
Ty Elliott	....	effects key assistant
Christian M. Elsensohn	....	render I/O administrator: Walt Disney
Bill Fadness	....	visual effects supervisor
Joel Fletcher	....	digital artist
Derrick Huckvale	....	scene setup
Andy Jolliff	....	technical director
Michael Kaschalk	....	supervising effects animator
David M. Kcenich	....	visual effects
Chris Keene	....	layout technical director
Ted Kierscey	....	visual effects animator
Cynthia Neill Knizek	....	visual effects animator
Dorse A. Lanpher	....	visual effects
Heidi Lin Mahoney	....	color stylist
Mauro Maressa	....	visual effects animator
Thomas C. Meyer	....	technical director: production support
David 'Joey' Mildenberger	....	visual effects
Jimmie Nelson	....	render i/o administrator
Amanda Normington	....	effects key assistant (as Amanda J. Talbot)
Masa Oshiro	....	visual effects animator
Peter Pepe Jr.	....	effects key assistant (as Pete Pepe)
Philip Pignotti	....	visual effects
Eric Powers	....	lead technical director
Mark Pudleiner	....	CGI lead animator: 3D herd cow
Tonya Ramsey	....	visual effects animator
Jason Salata	....	scene setup: effects department
Brad Smith	....	render I/O administrator
Phillip Vigil	....	visual effects animator
Marlon West	....	visual effects supervisor
David J. Blumenfeld	....	assistant technical director (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Suzy Zeffren	....	camera department coordinator

Animation Department
Drew Adams	....	clean-up animator
Kevin R. Adams	....	layout artist
Raul Aguirre	....	rough inbetweener (as Raul Aguirre Jr.)
Tim Allen	....	animator: "Maggie"
Sunny Apinchapong	....	background artist
Dale Baer	....	supervising animator: "Alameda Slim" and "Junior"
James Baker	....	animator: "Rico", "Willie Brothers" and "Horses"
Doug Ball	....	background artist
Tony Bancroft	....	animator: "Maggie"
Jared Beckstrand	....	animator: "Maggie"
George Benavides	....	rough inbetweener
Mitchell Bernal	....	additional layout artist
Nicolette Bonnell	....	animator
Dan Boulos	....	lead animator: "Rusty"
Chris Buck	....	supervising animator: "Maggie"
Jennifer Cardon Klein	....	additional animator (as Jennifer Cardon)
Jerry Yu Ching	....	animator: "Maggie"
Chang Yei Cho	....	breakdown animator
Sandro Cleuzo	....	supervising animator: "Sheriff" and "Jeb" (as Sandro Lucio Cleuzo)
Casey E. Coffey	....	rough inbetweener (as Casey Coffey)
Regina Conroy	....	breakdown artist
Fred Craig	....	additional layout artist
Bob Davies	....	animator: "Mrs. Caloway" and "Barry & Bob"
Bill Davis	....	additional layout artist
Andreas Deja	....	animator: "Slim" and "Junior"
Anthony de Rosa	....	animator: "Maggie"
Frank Dietz	....	animator
Mike Disa	....	animator: "Slim" and "Junior"
Roberto Espanto Domingo	....	animator: "Slim" and "Junior"
Adam Dykstra	....	animator: "Grace", "Wesley" and "Rusty"
Russ Edmonds	....	supervising animator: "Rico", "Willie Brothers" and "Horses"
Thomas Estrada	....	clean-up artist
Brian Ferguson	....	animator: "Rico", "Willie Brothers" and "Horses"
Wendie Fischer	....	rough inbetweener (as Wendie Lynn Fischer)
Larry R. Flores	....	rough inbetweener
Doug Frankel	....	animator: "Slim" and "Junior"
Edmund Gabriel	....	rough inbetweener
Danny Galieote	....	animator: "Maggie"
Miguel Gil	....	background artist
Ben Gluck	....	story artist
Dean Gordon	....	background artist
Steven Pierre Gordon	....	animator: "Buck"
Mike Greenholt	....	rough inbetweener
Joe Haidar	....	animator: "Rico, " "Willie Brothers" and "Horses"
Kris Heller	....	assistant animator
Mark Henn	....	supervising animator: "Grace", "Wesley", "Rusty" and "Pearl"
Arturo A. Hernandez	....	assistant animator
Mina Ho Ferrante	....	additional layout artist
T. Daniel Hofstedt	....	additional animator
Richard Hoppe	....	animator: "Sheriff" and "Jeb"
Chris Hubbard	....	animator: "Farm Animals" (as Christopher Hubbard)
Daniel Hu	....	additional layout artist
Dietz Toshio Ichishita	....	assistant animator
Jay Jackson	....	additional animator
Noel C. Johnson	....	additional layout artist
Carl Jones	....	background artist
Clay Kaytis	....	animator: "Farm Animals"
Karen A. Keller	....	key layout artist
Shawn Keller	....	lead animator: "Lucky Jack"
Sang-Jin Kim	....	animator: "Buck"
Mark Koetsier	....	animator: "Buck"
Michael Kurinsky	....	background artist
John Lee	....	background artist
Ely Lester	....	rough inbetweener
Michael Lester	....	rough inbetweener
James Lopez	....	supervising animator: "Farm Animals"
Cristy Maltese	....	background supervisor (as Cristy Maltese Lynch)
Duncan Marjoribanks	....	supervising animator: "Mrs. Caloway the Cow"
Alex Mark	....	animation research and development (as Alexander Mark)
Joseph Mateo	....	animator: "Maggie", "Rico", "Willie Brothers" and "Horses"
Mark Mitchell	....	animator: "Buck" (as Mark Alan Mitchell)
Rick Moore	....	layout artist
Joseph C. Moshier	....	character stylist (as Joe Moshier)
Michael O'Mara	....	additional layout artist
David Moses Pimentel	....	additional animator
Carol Kieffer Police	....	layout stylist
Jean-Christophe Poulain	....	layout supervisor
Robb Pratt	....	animator: "Mrs. Caloway"
Mark Pudleiner	....	animator: "Grace", "Wesley" and "Rusty"
Mark Pudleiner	....	lead animator: "3-D Herd"
Sheldon Ramones	....	scene set-up: animation
Dan Read	....	background artist
Richard Rocha	....	key assistant animator
Bobby Rubio	....	rough inbetweener (as Bobby Alcid Rubio)
Chris Sauve	....	animator: "Slim", "Junior" and "Barry & Bob" (as Christopher Sauve)
Mike Show	....	animator: "Mrs. Caloway" (as Michael Show)
Bruce W. Smith	....	supervising animator: "Pearl"
Kevin M. Smith	....	rough inbetweener
Marc Smith	....	animator: "Maggie"
Chris Sonnenberg	....	rough inbetweener
Michael Stocker	....	animator: "Maggie"
Juliet Stroud	....	assistant animator
Wes Sullivan	....	rough inbetweener
Michael Surrey	....	supervising animator: "Buck"
Trevor Tamboline	....	key assistant animator
Barry Temple	....	animator: "Mrs. Caloway"
Aliki Theofilopoulos	....	rough inbetweener
Steven K. Thompson	....	assistant animator: "Maggie"
Marshall Lee Toomey	....	clean-up supervisor
Raffaello Vecchione	....	character sculptor
Bill Waldman	....	animator: "Mrs. Caloway"
Doug Walker	....	additional layout artist
Andreas Wessel-Therhorn	....	additional animator
Joe Whyte	....	additional layout artist
Dougg Williams	....	animator: "Maggie"
Theresa Wiseman	....	additional animator
Anthony Ho Wong	....	additional animator
Ellen Woodbury	....	animator: "Mrs. Caloway"
Michael Wu	....	animator: "Maggie"
Phillip Young	....	additional animator (as Phil Young)

Editorial Department
Robert Bagley	....	post-production coordinator
Terry Claborn	....	color timer
Valerie Flueger	....	assistant post-production supervisor
Robert J. Hansen	....	transfer room operator
Mark A. Hester	....	associate editor (as Mark Hester)
Rich Mackay	....	negative cutter (as Rick Mackay)
Craig Paulsen	....	first assistant editor
Mary Beth Smith	....	negative cutter
Bruce Tauscher	....	digital color timer

Music Department
Doug Besterman	....	orchestrator
Earl Ghaffari	....	music editor
Michael Kosarin	....	music director, conductor, vocal arranger
Tom MacDougall	....	music production supervisor
Booker White	....	music preparation
Frank Wolf	....	score mixer

Other crew
Lia Abbate	....	production supporter
Debra Armstrong	....	key assistant
Thomas Baker	....	scene planning supervisor
James Colby Bette	....	render i/o engineer/lead
Bobby Block	....	additional voices
Rik Bomberger	....	technical supporter
Stephen D. Bowline	....	software engineer
Scott L. Burris	....	technology crew
Dwayne Colbert	....	production assistant: story/editorial
Mary T. Corgan	....	digital guru
Tom Corrigan	....	technology crew
Kelley Derr	....	assistant production manager: publicity
Liane Abel Dietz	....	administrative manager
Brett Drogmund	....	development team
Ronald A. Fischer	....	technology crew
Lisa Fisher	....	digital trainer
David Patrick Flynn	....	technology crew
Kathleen Marie-Frainier Fredrickson	....	production accountant
Jonathan E. Geibel	....	technology crew
Dennis Greco	....	visual development artist
Thomas Greer	....	technology crew
Julianne Hale	....	production accountant
Michael J. Henderson	....	technology crew
Mark Henley	....	caps supervisor: scene planning
Stephanie C. Herrman	....	assistant manager: Digital and Film Print Services
Paul Hildebrandt	....	technology crew
James P. Hurrell	....	software developer
Darrian M. James	....	avid technical support
Amindra Jayasinghe	....	technical supporter
Jason Phillip Johnson	....	software engineer
Lawrence Jonas	....	production assistant
Marc Jordan	....	technology crew
Sally-Anne King	....	final check
Frank William Knittel	....	assistant production accountant
Cindy Leggett-Ford	....	assistant department manager
Tamara Lusher	....	visual development (as Tamara D. Lusher)
Nathan Massmann	....	production assistant
Michael McClure	....	technology crew
Teri McDonald	....	assistant final check supervisor
Dara McGarry	....	technical supporter
Kevin A. McGuire	....	technology crew
Peter Megow	....	technical director: Digital Herd
Mary Jo Miller	....	production assistant
Charlene Moncrief	....	production assistant
Thomas Moore Jr.	....	technology crew
Colleen Murphy	....	additional production supporter
Madlyn O'Neill	....	senior blue sketch artist (as Madlyn Zusmer O'Neill)
Alan A. Patel	....	technology production supporter
James Pirzyk	....	technology crew
Jeff Rochlin	....	manager: systems
Brian Rodriguez	....	technology crew
James A. Sandweiss	....	technology crew
Melissa K. Schilder	....	production management intern
Matthew F. Schnittker	....	senior software engineer
Clay Speicher	....	technology crew
Carolyn Suzuki	....	production secretary
Wendy M. Tam	....	technology crew
Mark M. Tokunaga	....	manager: technical services
John Trosko	....	production assistant
Howard Wilczynski	....	technology crew
Lisamarie Worley	....	assistant production accountant
Terence Worley	....	senior software engineer
Fran R. Zandonella	....	software developer
Michael Zarembski	....	principal engineer
Jill Gable	....	production assistant (uncredited)
Clint G. Reagan	....	production assistant (uncredited)

Thanks
Troy Conrad	....	special thanks
Doug Engalla	....	special thanks
Chad Frye	....	special thanks
Shon Georgie	....	special thanks
Tamara Khalaf	....	special thanks
Tamara Lusher	....	special thanks (as Tamara D. Lusher)
Mark Martin	....	special thanks
Floyd Norman	....	special thanks
Cat Thelia	....	special thanks
Peter John Vaughan	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• Walt Disney Pictures
• Walt Disney Feature Animation

Distributors

• Buena Vista Pictures (2004) (USA) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (Sweden) (2004) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International Italia (2004) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2004) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2004) (Brazil) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2004) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2004) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2004) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2004) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Falcon (2004) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
• Gaumont Buena Vista International (GBVI) (2004) (France) (theatrical)
• Prooptiki (2004) (Greece) (theatrical)
• British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (2007) (UK) (TV) (BBC1)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2004) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Buena Vista Home Video (2004) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Gativideo (2004) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Gativideo (2004) (Argentina) (VHS)
• RTL (2009) (Germany) (TV)

Other Companies

• Buena Vista Sound  re-recording services (as Buena Vista Sound Services)
• Skylark Sound Studios  voice recording (recording for DVD bonus game)
• Technicolor  prints
• Walt Disney Music Library, The  music preparation
• Walt Disney Records  soundtrack
• Warner Bros. Studios  foley recording

Also Known As:

Sweating Bullets (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG for brief mild rude humor.

Runtime:

76 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

USA:PG (certificate #40071) | South Korea:All | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Brazil:Livre | Finland:S | Germany:o.Al. | Netherlands:AL | Norway:7 | Peru:PT | Philippines:G | Singapore:G | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:0 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:U | Greece:K

Company:

Walt Disney Pictures

Trivia:

Although this film is number 44 on the list of traditionally animated Walt Disney Feature Animation (WDFA), it is actually only number 35 of the traditionally animated WDFA that is made up of a single story. Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 consists of several animated segments, this is also the case for the so-called "package films" (made up of smaller shorts, rather than one long narrative), which were produced during and shortly after the WWII, from 1943 to 1949. These films are Saludos Amigos (1943), The Three Caballeros (1945), Make Mine Music (1946), Fun and Fancy Free (1947), Melody Time (1948) and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mister Toad (1949). The same procedure was used once more with The Many Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh (1977).

Goofs:

Continuity: When Buck and Rusty are playing tic-tac-toe, a horse shoe print appears, then disappears and is marked again as Buck walks across the board.

Quotes:

Rico: Lord of mercy.Is this the end of Rico?

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Little Caesar (1931)

Soundtrack:

Home On The Range (Echo Mine Reprise)

IMDb says the budget was over 100 million...

where did it all go because it certainly wasn't spent on the animation. It was just your regular Saturday morning cartoon animation. I guess most of the money must have been spent on the stars who played the voices. Since Rosanne's been out of work lately, she probably asked for a pretty penny to do this.

It didn't have any fun songs that stand out in my mind. Plus, the plot was very generic. And it needed more animals. The main animals were cows, a rabbit, and a horse. There's also a goat, pigs, buffalo, and chickens, but they weren't shown a lot. One of the reasons people liked the story of Finding Nemo so much was all the different animals used to tell the story.

FINAL VERDICT: I guess 5 year olds will like it, but I didn't think it was too great.