His pet comrades are Chance, a young, immature American bulldog and Sassy, a Himalayan cat who respects Shadow despite him being a dog.
Given his age, he sees the way of a dog as his own law. Shadow is a wise, old golden retriever, who is very loyal and obedient to his owner Peter, a teenage boy who loves him very dearly. Coincidentally, both actors died at the age of 85. In the sequel, he was voiced by the late Ralph Waite. In the first film, he was voiced by the late Don Ameche (who died after the film came out). Shadow is a golden retriever and the deuteragonist of Homeward Bound and Homeward Bound 2. " You'll never catch anything if you're not patient." A difficult balance to create and sustain, but "Housebound" makes it look easy.Shadow was loyal, Shadow was faithful. It is organically funny at the same time that it is terrifying. Johnstone knows what he is doing, that's clear, but in the fight scene he reveals his particular stamp. Everything makes sense, and everything is also completely absurd. These scenes shine with humor and invention. There are a couple of standout sequences, one involving a talking teddy-bear and one involving a group brawl where people fight one another using the objects closest to hand: an egg whisk, a cheese grater, a laundry hamper. You never get a feel for the house's layout. Simon Riera is the talented cinematographer, filling the screen with dark shadows and off-kilter angles, making the house seem like an endless maze.
The wallpaper is dark and flowered, creating a mood of claustrophobia, the walls closing in.
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The house is crammed full of useless knick-knacks, detritus from a life spent never throwing anything away. Jane Bucknell's production design is evocative and spooky. Kylie's situation is exacerbated by the fact that even if she wanted to flee from the house to save her life, her ankle monitor would go off, and she would be hauled back to meet her doom. O'Reilly is great as the classic misfit, angry and antisocial, contemptuous of her mum, before events start to dovetail, bonding them together. Amos is reduced to standing on the sidelines, watching helplessly through binoculars. She is a fearless burglar, with lots of practice. Some of the film's scariest sequences have to do with Kylie sneaking around in places she shouldn't be. Amos and Kylie start an investigation, focusing first on the house itself, before narrowing their lens onto the weird next-door neighbor with the straggly beard and the recluse habits (Mick Innes). Kylie's court-ordered sessions with a condescending and infantilizing counselor ( Cameron Rhodes) don't go well. She finds an ally in Amos ( Glen-Paul Waru), the security officer in charge of monitoring her ankle bracelet who also turns out to be an amateur ghost buster. Kylie makes fun of her mother for this, but soon becomes convinced that, yes, something very, very strange is going on in the house. Kylie's mother has always thought they had a ghost in the house, and calls in to paranormal radio shows to talk about it. Her mother tiptoes into the room, asking, almost in tears, if she can please have the television for one hour to watch her show? For example, as sullen Kylie is fitted with the ankle monitor, her mother says, brightly, supportively, "Aren't you lucky, Kylie, having all that high-technology on your foot?" Kylie spends her time at home sitting on the couch, watching television, eating all the food in the kitchen. She is resentful, querulous, but she tries to look on the bright side. She is a nonstop-talker of the completely inane. Kylie's mother is played by the brilliant Rima Te Wiata. She had left home as soon as she possibly could.
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The windows seem to peer down at Kylie judgmentally. Kylie is transported through the verdant green countryside to her childhood home, situated in an overgrown lawn filled with the gnarled crooked trees of a fairytale forest. She has to wear an ankle monitor that will beep any time she goes past the perimeter of the front lawn. Since she has been in and out of drug rehab facilities multiple times, Kylie is ordered to live at home with her mother for a period of 8 months. As cops swarm into the parking lot, she jumps into her car and flees the scene, getting stranded on a speed bump, screaming like a feral animal. In the opening sequence, she uses a sledgehammer, and then a small explosive, to bust open an ATM. Kylie ( Morgana O'Reilly) is going nowhere fast.
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