'The Sheep Detectives' Brings Fictional True Crime to the Big Screen
Kyle Balda’s adaptation stars Hugh Jackman and a voice cast led by Julia Louis-Dreyfus as sheep who use murder-mystery books to solve their shepherd’s death.
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'The Sheep Detectives' brings fictional true crime to the big screen
It’s a fictional true-crime tale that takes viewers along on a murder investigation led by a flock of talking CGI sheep. As odd as that may sound, "The Sheep Detectives," a PG movie released on Friday, May 8, captivates a crowd. At the center of the PG-rated mystery is the murder of George Hardy, a shepherd beloved by his flock and played by Hugh Jackman. Set in the outskirts of a quaint British countryside town, the murder comes as a shock to t…
Don’t Underestimate “The Sheep Detectives”
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There is a time when one thinks that the detective sheep is going to become a torture of sheep jokes and cheap sentimentalism and calculated to sell stuffed animals. And yet something unexpected happens: the film starts to work. Not by irony or postmodern cynicism, but because it really believes in its characters and the absurd story it is telling. The premise, based on the novel Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann, seems to emerge from a fever for …
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