Kayla (1998)
- Directed by
- Nicholas Kendall
- Genre
- adventure film, children's film
- Country
- Germany, Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In 1920s Quebec, a 12-year-old boy refuses to believe his explorer father is dead. He befriends a wild dog and trains for a sled dog race, which helps him accept his stepfather.
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What happens
Kayla is a Canadian family drama film, directed by Nicholas Kendall and released in 1998. Set in the 1920s, the film stars Tod Fennell as Sam Mackenzie, a 12-year-boy who is living with his widowed mother Althea (Bronwen Booth) and her new husband Asa (Henry Czerny) in the Estrie region of Quebec following the death of his father, a former polar explorer and sled dog racer. However, Sam has never accepted that his father is dead, and continues to believe that he will someday return to take Sam back to his old home. One day he encounters and befriends a wild dog who resembles one of his father's sled dogs; naming her Kayla, he decides to start training to compete in a sled dog race, through which he begins to learn how he can accept and embrace Asa as a stepfather without dishonoring his own father's memory. The cast also includes Meredith Henderson as Jaynie Nightingale, a friend and classmate of Sam's who is herself grieving the recent death of her mother, and Brian Dooley as Jaynie's father August, as well as Ricky Mabe, Daniela Akerblom, Vlasta Vrana, Carl Marotte, William Ford, David Deveau, Anthony Etesonne-Bedard, William Barwick, Graig O'Reilly, David Elkin, Erik Duhamel, Marika Lhoumeau and Chris Michaels in supporting roles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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