Salt Water Moose

Feb 23, 1996

1h 33m

★ 5.2

A boy, a girl, a moose. An adventure of a lifetime!

Overview

When Bobby and his Mom move from Toronto, away from his dad and his baseball team, to a small town in Nova Scotia, he's picked on by all the local kids, except for Jo. And Jo has also befriended a lonely male moose who lives on an island, and she has a wild plan to capture and relocate a female moose to be company for him. Together, Bobby and Jo, with the help of their single parents, Eva and Lester, attempt to put Jo's plan into operation.

Genres

Family

Adventure

Production Companies

Norstar Filmed Entertainment

Salt Water Moose Trailers

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Cast

Bobby Scofield

Johnny Morina

Lester Parnell

Timothy Dalton

Eva Scofield

Lolita Davidovich

Richard

Maurice Godin

Josephine 'Jo' Parnell

Katharine Isabelle

Grandma

Corinne Conley

Luke

David Roemmele

Slug

Dan Warry-Smith

D.J. Barnes

Michael Colton

Quinn Simpson

Ashley Brown

Dennis O'Connor

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