Overview
Genre: Family Adventure
Language: English
Country of Origin: UK/ Germany
Format: 35 mm
Production Status: Completed
Year of Production: 2004
Synopsis
With extraordinary special effects and animatronics from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop (Lara Croft 2, Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone, Doctor Doolittle, 101 Dalmations), and in the tradition of E.T the Extra-Terrestrial and Free Willy, MEE-SHEE: The Water Giant is the ultimate family adventure movie! After a helicopter crash in a remote Canadian lake, Sean Cambell (BRUCE GREENWOOD – I, Robot, Thirteen Days), an oil company trouble-shooter is called in with his high-tech mini-submarine to help retrieve a unique drill head. For his disappointed ten-year-old son Mac, the news means postponing yet another Florida vacation with his father. But when they arrive at Mrs Coogan’s (PHYLLIDA LAW – Emma, Time Machine) guesthouse, Mac soon learns of a legendary creature that supposedly lives in the lake! Utterly intrigued, Mac teams up with a cute little Native-American girl called Pawnee and they go in search of the monster, urged on by the sight of a woman known as ‘Crazy Norma’ (RENA OWEN – The Crow: Wicked Prayer , Once Were Warriors) – throwing whole salmon into the water to ‘feed the creature’. When Mac is trekking through the woods by the lake, he slips and falls in to the water and nearly drowns. Amazingly, he is rescued by something huge, which buoys him up to the surface. Convinced that it was the creature, Mac locates his cave and finally comes face to face with the huge, frightened water giant, MEE-SHEE! And a very special friendship begins… Within days, a rival oil company arrives in an attempt to steal the drill, and soon these money hungry villains realise that the drill is not the only prize from the lake they need to take home with them. Mac must find a way to save his newfound friend, but first he must convince his father that the creature is real, which is not as easy as he’d hoped… In a dramatic climax with MEE-SHEE, Mac and his father in grave danger, is there anything else lurking in the lake to come to their rescue?
MEE-SHEE: The Water Giant is an epic family adventure film in the very finest tradition, combined with some of the most magical special effects ever created!
Cast + Crew
Director: John Henderson (Loch Ness, Two Men Went To War)
Producer: Rainer Mockert (EP: Last Orders, Lantana), Barry Authors
Score: Pol Brennan (When The Sky Falls)
Cast: Bruce Greenwood, Daniel Magder, Rena Owen, Phyllida Law, Luanne Gordon, Tom Jackson, Jacinta Wawatai
Distributors
Festivals
Film credits are not contractual
