Balto (1995)
DVDRip | DolbyAc3_5.1 | 698.36 MB | 576x320 | frames 25 | Runtime: 78 min | xVid - MPEG-4 Codec | 192 kbps | English
Release Date: 22 December 1995 (USA) | Genre: Family / Animation / Adventure
Balto is a 1995 animated film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, distributed by Universal Pictures, and originally released to movie theatres in 1995. Balto is very loosely based on a true story about the dog, Balto, who helped save children from the diphtheria epidemic in the 1925 serum run to Nome. The film's poor performance at the box office led to the closure of Amblimation, but it became a cult classic and it was fairly successful when it was released on video, spawning two sequels: Balto II: Wolf Quest and Balto III: Wings of Change.
The story opens with a live-action segment in Central Park, New York City. A grandmother (Miriam Margolyes), her granddaughter (Lola Bates-Campbell), and Blaze, their pet husky, search for the Balto memorial statue. The granddaughter hands her grandmother a musher's hat, and the grandmother begins telling the story of Balto.
The movie fades to a dogsled race Nome, Alaska, where two sled teams are racing to the finishing line in the town itself. In this race a dog named Steele, the leader of one of the teams, openly uses forces to gain the upper hand on his rivals. In the town, waiting for the racing teams to arrive are Balto, an outcast half-wolf half-husky, and his best friend and Russian-accented goose Boris.
As they await the oncoming team, Balto sees a young girl named Rosy and Rosy's female husky named Jenna waiting among the audience. When Rosy's hat falls on to the path of Steele's oncoming sled team, Balto enters the racing line to retrieve the hat, incuring Steele's wrath when Balto manages to outrun him. Rosy is thankful for Balto's kindness but Rosy's father is quick to dismiss him because of his part-wolf bloodline. Steele's ire with Balto is worsened when he is scorned by Jenna, whom he suspects likes Balto romantically.
Later, Rosy is growing ill. When Jenna watches the doctor examine Rosy through a window, Balto arrives and helps her enter the space beneath the floorboards of the doctor's office, where they learn that Rosy is afflicted with diphtheria, and the doctor is out of antitoxin.
In the telegraph office, the operator contacts Anchorage requesting the diphtheria antitoxin. All routes to Nome are blocked, the planes cannot get there in the bad weather, and the nearest train line runs only to Nenana. A decision is made to have a sled team pick up the medicine from the Nenana train station and take it to Nome.
A race is held to determine who will be on the team to fetch the anti-toxin. Balto, who wants to help Rosy, enters the race and manages to win, but he is not allowed to enter the team due to Steele's manipulations. The team, lead by Steele, travel to Nenanna where they pick up the medicine. However, on the way back Steele loses his the path in a blizzard and slides down a hill. The musher is knocked unconscious and the team have no way of making it home.
When the news reaches Nome, Balto decides to go out to find the sled team with Boris, Muk, and Luk. On the way, they are attacked by a large grizzly bear which tries to crush Balto, and is about to kill him when, much to his surprise, Jenna comes to the rescue. The bear eventually falls in a frozen lake and Jenna is mildly injured. Balto tells his friends to take Jenna back to Nome while he heads on alone.
Balto manages to find the sled team, but Steele does not want his help. After a brief struggle, Steele plummets down a cliff, but is still alive. Balto resets the sled and leads the team, but soon finds himself lost when the markings he'd placed on trees to show the way have been corrupted by Steele. Balto is briefly separated from the team, where he encounters a white wolf. Finding renewed strength in embracing his wolf heritage, Balto returns to the team and successfully leads them back to Nome.
Jenna, Boris, Muk and Luk are overjoyed to be reunited with Balto, who received a hero's welcome. Although he was previously shunned, Balto is now embraced by the people of Nome, and is led to Rosy's in the clinic where she tells him, "I would have been lost without you."
The movie fades back into the live-action sequence in Central Park. At the end, the grandmother says, "Thank you, Balto. I would have been lost without you." Thus revealing that she is Rosy.
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