My friend's mother took my friend and I to see this movie when it first came out, when we were six, and it's about this boy whose family own these gorgeous Huskies that they use for sled-racing...
Since I saw this movie almost 14 years ago, I can't remember TOO many details, (I couldn't even remember the title, although I knew that it had the word "Toby" in it, so I searched here and found it!) except that some funny things happened, like the boy sledding through the school in his underwear, but I do remember that the main character, Toby, is trying to prove to his father that he is responsible/able enough to race the dogs on his own, and he takes them out one day without his father's permission.
I'm not going to spoil the movie by telling you what happens, but one of the dogs (the best dog, incidentally) get hurt, and I used to cry myself to sleep at night because I was so upset about it. I can remember both of my parents sitting on my bed with me trying to convince me that it was only ketchup, that it wasn't really real.
Obviously, it was pretty realistic and a good enough movie for me to remember it almost fourteen years later! There were some pretty powerful scenes involving a lot of emotion - not only between the boy, his father, and the dogs, but also with Toby's love interest, a girl called Sara. Apparently the movie was based upon a book, and now that I know the title, I'm looking forward to locating it and renting it to see if it will still have the same impact on me, all these years later.
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