1998 Directed by William Byron Hillman
Ragtime is a miniature pet horse and the kids love him. But villains Sam and Lester think Ragtime can be their meal ticket. They kidnap the horse for ransom. Ragtime out-smarts the bad guys who are then happy to be hauled off to prison.
Las aventuras de Ragtime, Le avventure di Ragtime, As Aventuras de Ragtime
USA
USA
Yeah it's Home Alone with a mini horse. This is a very, very, broad kid aimed comedy with Jay Thomas and Shelly Long playing two (very) small time crooks whom after seeing this mini horse on a local news story decide to kidnap it and hold it for ransom...only the mini horse fights back like Maculey Culkin protecting his house in Home Alone. Weirdly Thomas and Long feel pretty close to Elmore Leonard like criminals in their dimness. They're given dialog that's sometimes amusing in an odd turn of phrase kinda way. ("Look if I wanted my cake, and I had to wait for my ice cream, I'd do it ok?") Jay Thomas at one point realizing that the mini…
Asshole horse traps salt of the earth country couple in mansion; tortures them sadistically until their minds and bodies are broken. Also there's a collie I guess.
So you know how in Itchy and Scratchy they parody loony tunes by making the "protagonist" Itchy a straight up psychopath who tortures a much less capable Scratchy? That. But with a horse.
This movie is on crack, the horse is evil, the dad gets roasted on live news, and his kids leave him hanging.
