Little Red Riding Hood (1995 film)

Infobox Film
name = Little Red Riding Hood


size = 250px
director = Toshiyuki Hiruma Takashi
producer = Mark Taylor
writer = George Bloom, Charles Perrault (original author)
starring =
distributor = GoodTimes Home Video

released = July 31st, 1995 (USA)

runtime = 48 minutes
language = English
country = flagicon|Japan Japan
flagicon|United States United States
budget =
music = Andrew Dimitroff
awards =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 1112117

"Little Red Riding Hood" is a 48-minute direct-to-video animated film produced by Jetlag Productions. It was distributed by GoodTimes Home Video and originally released on VHS on July 31st, 1995cite web | work=The Internet Movie Database | title=Release dates for "Little Red Riding Hood"|url=http://imdb.com/title/tt1112117/releaseinfo| accessdate=17 March|accessyear=2008] . The film was produced by Mark Taylor and directed by Toshiyuki Hiruma Takashi. Writer George Bloom adapted the script from Charles Perrault's version of the story of "Little Red Riding Hood". Though it has been released on DVD in many European countries, the film has never been released in that format in the United States. It is the only Jetlag Productions animated film to not have been released on DVD in that country.cite web | work=The Internet Movie Database | title=Trivia for "Little Red Riding Hood"|url=http://imdb.com/title/tt1112117/trivia| accessdate=17 March|accessyear=2008]

Plot summary

Little Red Riding Hood, named so because of the red riding hood she wears, is one day asked by her kind mother to take some food and sweets to her ill grandmother, who lives at the other side of the big woods. Her mother warns her to be careful and to not speak to strangers, instead she is to walk straight to her grandmother's house without any distractions; the young girl promises to obey her mother and is on her way. However, Little Red Riding Hood has a hard time obeying her mother when she first hears the crying of a sad deer in the forest. The small creature had forgotten his mother's birthday and was very disappointed. Little Red Riding Hood suggests to his new friends to make her mother a lovely bouquet of wild flowers, which he does happily. As she continues walking through the forest, the young girl meets another new friend, a pretty bird who is very talented at singing, but is afraid of flying. Little Red Riding Hood encourages the bird to not be afraid, and when he finds the ability to fly without being scared and thus return to his family, the grateful bird rewards the girl by teaching her how to whistle, telling her to do so should she ever be in danger. Finally, Little Red Riding Hood meets a large family of beavers that are trying to build a dam but lack organization skills. Little Red Riding Hood offers to help, and though she is first turned away, the beavers finally accept. Working together, they learn about teamwork and their dam is finished in no time. The young girl bids her new friends farewell, and they too promise to return the favor someday. Little Red Riding Hood's friends come to her rescue when upon reaching her grandmother's house, she meets the terrible wolf that she had been told was wandering around in the woods. Working together once again, the girl and her animal friends manage to defeat the wolf and rescue the grandmother, who'd been put away in order to be serves as dessert, learning many valuable lessons from the experience.

Songs

As a common rule in Jetlag Productions' films, "Little Red Riding Hood" featured a total of three original songs sung by off-screen voices:

* "Made With Love" ("Little Red Riding Hood"): The film's opening and ending song; Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother is the persona for this tune, who sings about her especial bond with her granddaughter.
* "Whistle And I'll Be There": Tenor, the bird's song; he sings this song to Little Red Riding Hood explaining to her to whistle if she is ever in trouble and needs help.
* "We're A Team": The beavers' song about teamwork during the construction of the dam.

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