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Festivale Spring 1997

PAWS If a boy's best friend is his dog, and the boy is a computer nerd, than having a dog called PC is just dog-gone obvious. Of course, Zac (musician Nathan Cavaleri) is not the dog's original owner. That was Alex, the brilliant scientist who taught PC to use the computer and was, until his untimely murder, hiding in Sydney from his nefarious wife, played by Sandy Gore.

We took a couple of kids to a child-laden preview of Paws. They loved it -- especially the end. The film is a masterpiece of casting, who else but Billy Connolly could carry off the doggy-bum humour he delivered as the voice of a little Jack Russell (played by Forrest). As a computer nerd myself I had trouble with the 'science', but once the script had established that PC could type and the computer could remotely translate his barks and whines, then the film remained true to the premise.

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	The characters, except for the immediate family, are drawn with a very broad brush, played for humour. The family was the weakest part of the film, not getting deep sympathy from the kids or the adults in the audience. A winner with the kids, accompanying adults will find something to entertain them as well.

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Enter movie, TV show, or person   Provided by Internet Movie Database.	Just the facts: Title: PAWS Written by: Harry Cripps, based on a book by Directed by: Karl Zwicky Produced by: Rebel Penford-Russell (exec), Andrena Finlay and Vicki Watson Edited by: Nicholas Holmes Director of Photography: Geoff Burton, ACS (87 mins, PG) A PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Release
	The Players: Nathan Cavileri, Billy Connolly (voice), Sandy Gore, Emilie Francois, Forrest. Animal Trainer: Luke Hura

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