I saw The Tiger Rising, starring Christian Convery-Playing With Fire, Venom; Madalen Mills-Summering, Jingle Jangle:A Christmas Journey; Katharine McPhee-Scorpion_tv, The House Bunny; Sam Trammell-Homeland_tv, True Blood_tv; Dennis Quaid-American Underdog, The Intruder and Queen Latifah-The Equalizer_tv, Girls Trip.
This movie is based on a kids novel with the same name, The Tiger Rising and is about how people handle loss. Katharine and Sam are ten year old Christian's parents and when Katharine dies, both handle it differently. Sam doesn't even want to talk about Katharine-he tells Christian that he can't mention her name-and Christian suppresses his feelings so much that he breaks out in hives. Sam takes Christian and moves to get away from people that are trying to console them and gets a handyman job at a motel. Dennis owns the motel-and a big chunk of the town, as well-but is a sadistic boss. Madalen is a girl in Christian's school that befriends him-they are both picked on by the other kids-and Queen is a maid at the motel, who also becomes friends to the two kids. One day, Christian is exploring in the near by woods and finds a tiger in a cage. Who's tiger is it? What is it doing there? Should they let it free? These are burning questions that have consequences.
It's rated PG for language and violence and has a running time of 1 hour & 42 minutes.
It's not one that I would buy on DVD but it is good enough for a rental.
