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Tall Tale (also known as Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill) is a 1995 American Western adventure fantasy film directed by Jeremiah Chechik, written by Steven L. Bloom and Robert Rodat, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Caravan Pictures and starring Scott Glenn, Oliver Platt, Nick Stahl, Stephen Lang, Roger Aaron Brown ...
Mar 24, 1995 · A boy's dream of Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Calamity Jane comes true in the old west. They help him fight a villain who wants to take his family's farm in this adventure film directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik.
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- Adventure, Family, Fantasy
- Jeremiah S. Chechik
- 1995-03-24
A tall tale is a narrative that exaggerates the adventures of folk heroes, often associated with the American frontier. Learn about the origin, famous examples, and literary use of tall tales, such as Paul Bunyan, Mike Fink, and Baron Munchausen.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual. Some tall tales are exaggerations of actual events, for example fish stories ("the fish that got away") such as, "That fish was so big, why I tell ya', it nearly sank the boat when I pulled it in!"
May 3, 2024 · Learn the meaning of tall tale/story, a story that is very difficult to believe or greatly exaggerated. See examples of tall tale/story in sentences and related articles.
Mar 24, 1995 · A 1995 movie review by Roger Ebert praises the originality and humanism of a film that features legendary heroes like Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and John Henry. The movie follows a boy who saves his farm with their help from a greedy villain.
Legendary American folk heroes come to life as young Daniel Hackett (Nick Stahl) embarks on a quest to save his father's farm from a greedy land baron (Scott Glenn).
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- Kids & Family, Fantasy
- PG
