The Film “GORDY”

I apologize for the length of this posting.  I got really carried away by another piggy movie – WOWSER!

 

Last night I got to watch a new movie that has been in my Netflix que called Gordy.  OMP (oh my pig!)  Have you seen this delightful and entertaining movie?  It is wonderful!  So full of fun, love and adventure.  I highly recommend this if you haven’t see it.  Pop you some corn, get a soda and get the family together for movie night – you won’t be sorry you did!  

Gordy came out in 1995, is around 90 minutes long and takes place in Arkansas.  The movie starts at Meadowbrook Farm which is for sale.  It shows all kinds of anipals outside at the farm.  I have to admit that I was little shocked to see pigs living outside.. in nature?!  What?  Don’t all pigs live the life I do?  And there were cows, horses, goats, roosters and chickens among those pigs.  WOW !  And the anipals were talking!  It was awesome.  We could hear everything they were saying.  Just like when I talk here on my page and at the Hotel Thompson.

It gets a little sad at this point because there are humans at the farm to take the daddy piggy away to “up north”.  The rooster goes and tells Gordy, one of the piglets, that they are taking his dad.  Gordy runs back to the farm as the truck is pulling off.  I have to admit that Gordy runs fast and stays with the truck just enough for his daddy to tell him that he’s head of the family now.  Gordy promises to take care of his mom and siblings and the truck goes off.  I admit it.  Me and mommy cried at this part of the movie right there with Gordy.  It was so very sad to see them taking daddy away.

Gordy goes back to the farm crying and he can’t find his mom or family.  Gordy asks Dorothy the cow if she has seen his family and she says no.  Gordy asks Wendy the chicken if she has seen his family and she says no but tells him to ask Richard.  Gordy goes and asks Richard the rooster if he has seen his family.   Richard tells Gordy that while he was chasing the truck that took his dad “up north”, another truck came and took his mom and siblings.  What?  Can this movie get any sadder from the start?

Gordy decides to go off to find his family.  He walks a long way from the farm and it gets dark.  He comes upon a church and crawls into a basket outside to sleep.  Aaww.  Unbeknownst to Gordy, the basket was for the less fortunate and a guy comes by, picks up the items and places them in his truck.  It starts to rain and Gordy is asleep in the basket in the back of the truck.

In the next part of the movie, we are at Miss Kittys’ Saloon and Dance Hall where we see Gordy’s mom and his siblings.  They are cold and hungry and are asking where is Gordy and their dad.  A cute little girl, Jinni Sue, comes out and feeds them it looks like some lettuce.  While she is feeding them, Jinni Sue’s dad comes out and says it’s time.  Jenni and her dad then go inside the dance hall and sing.  It was like heaven – that Jenni Sue has some voice on her.  It was beautiful!

After she gets done singing, she goes back outside and the truck with Gordy’s mom and siblings are gone  But there is truck in the parking lot that has Gordy.  She takes Gordy and tells him that she is going to take care of him and she is now going to call him Pinky.  (Snorts – she didn’t know his name yet).  She sneaks him into her trailer and hides him from her dad.  She puts pajamas on him and they say their prayers before going to sleep.  When Jinni Sue’s dad comes in to say goodnight, the lights are out and Pinky – AKA Gordy – kisses dad.  It’s hilarious!  It certainly reminds me of something that I might do.

Jinnie Sue’s dad eventually finds out about Pinky and they adopt him.  They then head to Fayetteville, Arkansas to sing at Huntington Estate.  I think this is the home of the local mayor.  While Jinnie Sue is not singing, she has Pinky on a leash and meets a little boy named Hanky.  Hanky is there at the party with his mom and grandfather, who is head of Royce Industries in St. Louis.  Grandpa Royce tells Hanky to ask his mom to dance but before he can, his mom’s fiance beats him to it.  Hanky gets upset and walks away from the party going to the estate pool.

Jinnie Sue sees Hanky walk away and follows him with Pinky.  Hanky is sitting on the diving board of the pool and they talk for a bit about how lonely Hanky is.  When Hanky gets up to return back to the party, he falls into the pool.  He can’t swim and neither can Jinni Sue!  Jinni Sue runs off to get help and while she is gone, Pinky pushes a float into the pool and jumps in to safe Hanky.  As Pinky is pushing Hanky to the side of the pool, everyone from the party comes to the pool and sees the amazing piglet saving Hanky.  Cameras start flashing and this makes the news.

Afterwards, Jinnie Sue, Luke (Jinnie’s dad) and Pinky go to visit Hanky and his family.  Jinnie Sue wants to give Pinky to Hanky as a pet since he gets lonely.  The family accepts.  The next day, Hanky, his mother (Jessica), Jessica’s fiance (Gilbert Sipes), Grandpa Royce and Pinky board a plane heading home to St. Louis.  Once they are at the Royce International headquarters, they learn that a Hero Pig Fan Club has went nation wide on hero Pinky.  Hanky shows Pinky around the office.  That’s when Hanky learns that the pure of heart can understand animals.  See, that’s why all of you my friends understand me – you are pure of heart!    From that point on, Pinky tells Hanky that his name is Gordy and they understand each other completely.

Grandpa Royce is wanted a new image for the company.  Gilbert Sipes is the PR person for the business – remember he is also Grandpa Royce’s daughters fiancee.  Sipes wants Jessica to be the new image of the company.  Grandpa Royce thinks that it should be Gordy – who is a hero.  Grandpa Royce advises to take pictures, do a market campaign and let the consumers decide who should be the new image of Royce Industries.

The day comes for the filming and Gordy is under the clothes rack.  He overhears Sipes telling the photographer to change the lense in the camera when he shoots Gordy.  Gordy doesn’t understand this but tells Hanky.  Well, Hanky switches the lenses back.  The filming of Gordy then starts and you can see Gordy sporting rainwear, piglopedia, scubawear, piggy cola, hero pig – it’s so darling!  Mommy – just don’t get any ideas okay.

Then then set up for the session with Jessica and they change lenses.  Jessica then goes through all of the same poses.  When it’s all over with, Sipes says that he doesn’t need to look at the film and to go ahead and send it out rush to market ASAP.  He just *knows* that Jessica is going to win.

During this time, Jessica gets a postcard from Luke and Jinni Sue.  Let’s just say she is smitten.  She has that look in her eyes that mommy and daddy get when they look at each other.  The next day, there’s a huge meeting at Royce Industries to announce who the winner is of the image campaign.  They announce it was 100 to 1 on the results and that Gordy WINS.  Sikes can’t believe it because you know – he did the lense switch.  Then they show the film from Jessica and they see that she had the lense switch and all of her pictures look out of whack and fat.  Sikes is livid.  Gordy is signed to a lifetime contract and he is the new trademark for Royce Industries.  Grandpa Royce then says that he will supervise Gordy’s publicity personally.

Gordy goes on to make the cover of Farm Journal and News Week.  He even makes the talk shows and has a song about him that goes platinum!

But during all of this, Gordy has been talking to Hanky about his promise to his father.  He has to find his mother and siblings who were taken ‘up north’.  They make a plan to go to the park the next day and they are going to find mom and the siblings themselves.  What they don’t know is that Sikes is putting together a plan to kidnap Gordy.  Sikes wants Gordy out of the picture so that Jessica can take his place.  This way, when they are married Sikes will be rich.

At the park, Gordy and Hanky are able to get on a school bus that is heading towards Kansas City, Kansas.  Sikes incompetent henchmen, Dietz and Krugman, are following the bus in their limousine.  What they don’t see is Gordy and Hanky escaping out of a window into a feed truck.  Sikes calls the henchmen to find their status and they advise they have both Hanky and Gordy.

Hanky and Gordy get dropped off at a farm and they talk to a hog there.  The hog tells them that there was a beautiful Yorkshire mom with babies that was at the Tri States Stockyard that got auctioned.  They are now in transit ‘up north’.  So there we see Hanky and Gordy off again walking down the side of a road.  Who do you think passes the two?  That’s right – Jinni Sue and Luke in their bus.  They stop and pick them up.  Can you believe the driver, Cousin Jake, understands Gordy as well?  Then on the radio we hear that Henry Royce head of Royce Industries is sick in the hospital from having a heart attack at the age of 73.  Oh no!  Everyone is saddened by the news.  Luke tells Hanky he has take him home.

They get Hanky back at Royce Industries just in time for the reading of Grandpa Royce’s will.  That’s where we find that Jessica is not left the company – you see Sikes fuming.  The holdings of the company is left to grandson Hanky when he comes of age.  In the time being, the company goes to Gordy!  Can you imagine that PIGLET CEO!

Gordy starts telling Hanky that they need to make changes in the items they produce.  For instance, change from chemicals and go more from artificial to natural items.  This takes off and Gordy is called a Wall Street Wonder!  But still, he always has in the back of his mind that he need to go ‘up north’ to save his mom and siblings.

They get a call from Cousin Jake advising they are in Branson, Missouri.  They can’t find anywhere to play because they are nobodies.  They need someone famous to get them a job.  They want to know if Gordy will come to Branson to vouch for them and in exchange they will make an appeal to find his family.  Deal!

And this is where I’m going to end my friends.

Does mom get saved?  Does dad get saved?  Does the siblings get saved?  What happens??  

Tune back Monday for the finish!