Frogs & Toads

Apr 1, 2009

1h 15m

★ 5.9

Overview

Six year old Max has an important mission: find some frogspawn for his older brother. Together with his neighbour girlfriend Jesse he makes an adventurous and touching journey along fields, farms, animals and a forest which eventually leads to his grandma's home. There he's welcomed by his grandma, her pancakes and the desired frogspawn . On his overwhelming journey through nature he's accompanied by cheerful childrens songs.

Genres

Adventure

Drama

Family

Production Companies

Lemming Film

BosBros

Frogs & Toads Trailers

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Cast

Max

Nino den Brave

Jesse

Whitney Franker

Heleen

Georgina Verbaan

Grandma

Juul Vrijdag

busdriver Arie

Remko Vrijdag

father of Jesse

Quintis Ristie

Jannus

Thijs Goedknegt

Polish Boy

Bartek Kowalczyk

Doctor

Olaf Malmberg

Farmer's Daughter

Laura Mastwijk

Garbage Man

Bert van der Roest

Female Busdriver

Wimie Wilhelm

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