Two photos of Bruce Greenwood as Nolan Walsh

(2005 feature film; released on January 14)

A family film from Warner Brothers, this unique project combines animation with actors and animals in a story about a zebra named Stripes who's been brought up on a Kentucky farm and thinks he's a race horse. After inadvertently being left behind by a circus, the baby zebra is rescued by kindly Nolan Walsh (Bruce Greenwood in one of the few human roles), who takes him home to his rural rundown farm, where his daughter Channing (Hayden Panettiere) raises him. Fascinated with the ritzy racing stables nearby, Stripes is sure he's meant to race like the thoroughbreds, and together with the other animals on the farm, he begins to train and plots to have his teenaged owner become his jockey. Channing has the same fantasy, but both their dreams are threatened by Nolan, who lost his beloved wife in a racing accident a few years before and has become overly protective of his daughter.

A charming story akin to Babe, Frederik DuChau directs from a script by David Schmidt, Kirk DeMicco and Mike Samonek. The starry cast of voices includes Dustin Hoffman as Tucker, the shetland pony who becomes Stripes' mentor, Whoopi Goldberg as Franny the motherly goat, Frankie Muniz as Stripes, Joe Pantoliano as Goose, a lost pelican who stays to help, Mandy Moore as Sandy, a thoroughbred filly who befriends Stripes, Jeff Foxworthy as Reggie the rooster and - as the only two completely animated animals in the film - Steve Harvey and David Spade as Scuzz and Buzz, two helpful flies. Shooting began just after Labor Day in South Africa and ended just before Christmas 2003.

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