The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep is a 2007 fantasy film based on an adaption of Dick King-Smith’s children’s novel The Water Horse. The film which is directed by Jay Russell has grossed $94,236,489 worldwide as of March 22, 2008.
SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Alex Etel and Priyanka Xi in the movie "The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep"
The movie begins with a male tourist (Nathan Christopher Haase) looking a picture of "Water Horse" in awe. When the female tourist (Megan Katherine) says it could be real, the young man argues and an old man interrupts with his own tale of the Water Horse.
Back in the 1940’s in Scotland, a young boy named Angus MacMorrow (Alex Etel) lives in a large house with his mother and sister and a maid, and later also another handyman. Angus thinks his father is still alive and waits for him. He discovers a big mysterious egg and cares for what hatches of it: a ‘water horse’ he calls Crusoe that grows so rapidly becoming the fabled Loch Ness Monster.
Young Angus keeps the creature a secret, but later he tells his sister and the male servant. Lewis Mowbray (Ben Chaplin) who works as a handyman for MacMorrow’s tells Angus that Crusoe belongs to a species which can asexually reproduce through parthenogenesis, and always die after laying an egg.
Despite without any knowledge and permission from Mrs. MacMorrow, a group of soldiers involved in the defense against possible attacking or hiding German U-boats is stationed in and near the house. The creature is sometimes attacked by the dog of the soldiers. It grows fast and is brought to the lake.
It is still friends with Angus, and lets him ride it underwater, coming to the surface from time to time for breathing. However, it suffers from shells shot into the lake for practice, and attacks the soldiers. Angus falls into the Loch and Crusoe saves him. At first it cannot leave the lake due to an anti-submarine net intended to catch possible German U-boats entering the lake, but later it succeeds. Angus finally accepts the creature’s departure, and also that his father died.
After the story was told eventually the story-teller reveals himself to be Angus MacMorrow. It then shows another boy manages to find a new egg from the shore while his mother is calling his name.
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