A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. When Daniel Hackett sees his father Jonas gravely wounded by the villainous Stiles, his first urge is for his family to flee the danger, and give up their life on a farm which Daniel has come to despise anyway. Going alone to a lake to try to decide what to do, he falls asleep on a boat and wakes to find himself in the wild west, in the company of such "tall tale" legends as Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Calamity Jane. Together, they battle the same villains Daniel is facing in his "real" world, ending with a heroic confrontation in which the boy stands up to Stiles and his henchmen, and rallies his neighbors to fight back against land grabbers who want to destroy their town.
Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure has generally received mixed reviews.
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Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure was released in 1995 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 56 reviews, giving Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure (1995) an average rating of 57%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 74%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 70%.
With a score of 57%, Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1995, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 1995 with similar scores include films like Assassins, Total Eclipse and Nick of Time.
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