Huusild

Huusild is a 1990 animated-musical-dramedy-coming-of-age film produced by MacNamara-Pierre Pictures and distributed by Olympus Distribution around the world except in Canada, where it was distributed by Rufus Pictures. The MacNamara-Pierre's 11th animated feature, the film was directed by animation veterans JB Gallagher and Ari Stewart (being Gallagher's penultimate work and Stewart's last work) and produced by Maximilian MacNamara and Kian Pierre II (in his debut as a producer), from a screenplay written by Gualterio Grimoldi and Laila Sellers. the film is featured by a ensemble voice cast which has included Danielle York, Isabelle Murphy, Jagger Booth, Chiara Costagliola, Jenna Macdonald and Joel Butler. Its original songs were written by Belgian multi-instrumentalist, composer and lyricist Alyssa Duesterhaus, with a score by Brazilian film score composer Emanuel Quadros Borba.

Set in 1930s Wyoming, the film is named after its protagonist, a hunting dog that is a mix of several breeds called "Huusild", he was adopted as a puppy by hunter Ronan Sweeney and was trained to hunt animals in the woods near his caretaker's ranch; however, after years of hunting like any other hound dog, he ends up falling in love with a vixey named Charleigh, who since he was a child used to make fun of the occupation for which Huusild was destined, and when adults, she continued to make fun of him, but with a suggestive tone that was not common before, leaving the dog more and more attracted by the vixey's various attractions. Charleigh also has some feeling related to the dog, but is divided between falling in love with a hunting dog, historical rival of the foxes, or with an animal of her same species, the conceited and poetic fox Adam. In addition to worrying about the possibility of embarrassing his owner by falling in love with a fox, Huusild has to be at his owner's side when he is threatened by the region's influential and dubious farmer Oliver Shaw. The story is narrated by Owlette, an old barn owl who is also part of the story, and also features the humorous Gaige, Malia and Mila (rabbit trio), the snobbish wild cat Dakota, who becomes Charleigh's servant, and the bumbling and bossy peninsular mule deer Rhys and the the passionate hedgehog Gia.

Huusild was released on October 29, 1990, to critical and audience acclaim for its soundtrack, story, themes, and animation. with a worldwide box office of $574 million, it was the highest-grossing film of 1990. It was also the highest-grossing animated film in history until 1997, when it was displaced by Strange Miracle, also produced by MacNamara-Pierre. The film is also the animated film with the most Academy Award nominations to date, being the only animated film to compete in the "Best Picture" category and also won three Golden Globes.

During the mid-1990s, much was speculated about a sequel, which never existed and which MacNamara-Pierre always rejected, as they always said the 1990 title was enough, as at that time they were adept at thinking that sequels meant "lack of of creativity".

Plot
In a rural area of the state of Wyoming, United States in the 1930s, a hunter named Ronan Sweeney adopts a mixed breed puppy and starts training it to be a hunting dog, and replace his old and deceased dog. Ronan works for farmer Oliver Shaw, who demeans Sweeney whenever he can and humiliates him for being from a family that was his grandfather's rival. Huusild on the other hand is adventurous and loves to escape his home and go look at the outside world, and one of these escapes, he meets a cub vixen, she is initially scared of the puppy's presence, but after he introduces himself to her, she then decides to introduce herself as well. Huusild discovers that the name of that little fox is Charleigh, and says that he is training to be a hunting dog, which makes her laugh, after finding the word "hunting" funny, it makes him a little angry, but she notices the revolt on the puppy's face apologizes and starts playing with him. After playing for a long time, the puppy hears his owner call him and then says goodbye to Charleigh and returns home. While this was happening, an owl was smilingly looking at the situation, at this moment, the narrator reveals herself to be the smiling owl, introduces herself to the public and says her name is Owlette.

Amidst a lot of conversation, another fox comes between them, asking and asks the vixey if Huusild was bothering her, referring to him as a "hairy four-legged human", she denies that anything is happening and reveals that the intruder's name was Adam, who was a romantic companion to that female fox that Huusild was talking to, he then tries to intimidate the hound, but without success, and after which he takes him away. After that misunderstanding, Owlette introduces herself to the protagonist, and says that that grumpy and clueless fox is a kind of boyfriend to Charleigh since when she was a fox cub, when hearing the name of the female fox, Huusild remembers- remembers the days of childhood when they played happily, until the day his owner was fired by Oliver from his farm and had to rebuild his life far away and outside of Wyoming. Owlette says that Shaw has not changed, and on the contrary, his farm and profit has doubled and he has become even more haughty than before, and says that a heartless farmer seeks to take care of the land where Ronan's ranch is, knowing the high fertility land and also neutralize any kind of competition, since Ronan is also a farmer who sells what he harvests. Such a revelation makes Huusild worried about Ronan's safety and makes him return home quickly, when he passes by Oliver's plantation unintentionally and bumps into a silent cat who, in addition to looking with contempt at the dog, still violently expels him from there. The cat however chases him hits head on a tree trunk and then loses consciousness and forgets who she is, and starts screaming madly and disappears in the middle of the forest.

A few days pass and Charleigh is now talking to her best friend Gia, a young hedgehog who loves to romanticize everything she sees, the vixen talks about how her boyfriend has been inelegant the last few days, her friend retorts by asking if he has been elegant at all, since she always didn't like him. Gia asks if it's true that Adam tried to intimidate a hound dog out of jealousy and ended up getting screwed, the vixen sheepishly affirms, and is answered with a big laugh from her hedgehog friend, so then lift the rabbit Gaige, who was resting nearby and scolds Gia, who responds with a mockery of suggestive jokes, making the rabbit even more disgusted. From there, the film then follows the rabbit, who is with his two sisters, Malia and Mila, who are also laughing at Gaige, and say that he is so weak when it comes to Gia, that he can't even support himself after she starts answering his every complaint. In the middle of so much fuss with the rabbit, Rhys, the deer, appears, who complains because Gaige is still wandering around instead of doing her job, which in this case is waking up the sloth and helping her pick the fruits of the trees, to keep the stock full when winter comes and make sure no one goes hungry, the rabbit who is already angry even thinks about retaliating that bossy deer, but after sharpening his antlers on a stone, Gaige comes back and goes to work grumpy, Rhys, so does he doesn't let Gaige's sisters off the hook and orders them to send Gia to watch the lake and spy on any trespassers. However, after so many orders and complaints, there are always those who challenge him, precisely Charleigh, who, when asked why he is not watching the only accessible entrance to the forest to prevent the animals from being disturbed by hunters, mocks the deer and says to he's supposed to be taking some kind of medicine for memory problems because hunting season was going to end that day, he then huffs angrily, saying it's not the first time the fox has made fun of him, and tells Charleigh that one day all times he was ridiculed and still allowed her to get away with it would be avenged, as she always says it is a mere "false alarm" and that deep down, the deer would miss her and her rebellion if she disappeared from there. After Rhys leaves, Charleigh then bumps into the cat that chased Huusild earlier, still out of her mind, and leaves the fox confused, the cat then introduces herself as Dakota, and says that she is a wildcat who has the wild in her heart, Charleigh tries to question the pussy's sanity, but is not allowed to speak for her, Charleigh then, being an insidious fox as ever, triumphs with erudition over the mind of the Sphynx, inducing that that forest was much more aggressive than that Dakota had gotten used to, and that alone, the kitten would quickly become food for some ferocious animals from there, although even so the effect was not quite what Charleigh expected, since the Sphynx then proposes a kind of non-aggression pact with the fox, assuring that the shrewd vixen would protect her from any danger, Charleigh is then forced to give in to Dakota's request not to waste any more time.

Progressing to the film's end, one day Huusild is on a hunt with his owner, when Gaige accidentally faces the huge hunting dog, and fearing that he would bark and attract his owner to the place, begs mercy in a desperate and comic way. The dog's reaction, however, is atypical of what the rabbit expected, Huusild began to laugh wildly, which leaves Gaige unnerved as always and begins to incessantly call the dog in front of him a "fake wolf", being answered only by even louder laughs, when finally Huusild stops laughing, assures that he will leave the rabbit alive for that humorous moment he provided him, Gaige still irritated says that he made nothing more than a gesture of compassion, still under the laughing look of the dog. Right after the comedic scene with Gaige, Huusild is reunited with Charleigh, now already calling her by her name, as she had found out thanks to Owlette, the fox somehow also knows her name, which makes Huusild curious, Charleigh however now seems more seductive with the dog than the other times she saw him, she says that when she remembers who he was, she says that she never forgot the days when they played and that she remembers even more when she and Adam fought, he always comforted her warmly, and says that they still kept thinking about him even after a long time away from each other. Charleigh says he fought again with Adam and asks if Huusild doesn't want to console her, like in the old days, the dog tries to reject it, but it becomes impossible to refuse such a tempting proposal, so under such pressure, Huusild ends up revealing his most primordial feeling in relation to the fox, and licks it warmly on its cheek and lips, but after noticing that it has done so, it runs madly back to its owner, while seeing Charleigh's satisfied face looking at him, what both don't suspect is that Adam has followed Charleigh and saw it all, sending him into a rage.

In the next day, Adam is furious and is rude to everyone and everything, including Rhys who tries to fight him back but ends up being humiliated in front of all the animals in the forest, Owlette tries to give advice to calm Adam, but is answered with the fox's hateful silence. Rhys goes to complain to Charleigh about Adam's behavior, and then Charleigh replies that he cannot answer for something that did not come out of his mouth, but Rhys finally raises his voice and says that because he is someone close to her, she has Obligated to answer for all sorts of things concerning him, including why she was the way she was, Rhys's scream is so high-pitched that it ends up catching Adam's attention. Upon arriving at the fox, he is faced with a deer questioning his lover, Adam then arrives disguising calm and sarcastically says that Charleigh was flirting with a hound, which leaves Rhys completely dumbfounded, and tells Charleigh that from that moment on he would be with Adam the responsibility of guarding the entrance to the forest. After the deer leaves, Charleigh curses endlessly at Adam, who only responds to the fox asking him to calm down and harassing him. Later, Charleigh is in a secluded spot in the forest crying and curses Adam, Dakota then approaches and asks what happened, with the fox answering with silence, the Sphynx asks again, when Charleigh only replies that it was something without much importance that happened during the morning, the cat replies that if it didn't matter, Charleigh wouldn't be crying, so seeing herself defeated in argument for the first time in her life and tells Dakota what happened, and tells her to tell Huusild that do not go into the forest, otherwise Adam will end him off.

Meanwhile, Ronan Sweeney harvests the plantation in his backyard, when he is intimidated by Oliver Shaw's doormats, who threaten him that if he leaves that ranch in the next few days, it will be worse for him. Ronan, however, ignores the threat and continues to take care of his plantation, Huusild while reflecting on that encounter with Charleigh is received by the thunderous screams of Dakota, Huusild asks what the cat that expelled him from Oliver's plantation once does there, and is answered by the cat who says he shouldn't go into the forest, because Adam, the vixen's repulsive boyfriend, is waiting for him to kill him, the dog is surprised by such news, and says he immediately needs to talk to Charleigh, but Dakota asks him to stay, since he was banished from the forest for being a threat, which makes him insecure, since his owner would hunt with him the next day.

As promised, the next day Ronan goes hunting with Huusild, not suspecting that he is followed by Oliver and his henchmen, who decide to set fire to the forest seeking to kill the hunter by cremating them, when they see him entering the forest for good, they shoot fire and they run away, Huusild smells the flames approaching and tries to alert his owner, who doesn't pay attention to him, and when he begins to realize, he is already completely surrounded by flames, Huusild goes in search of someone to help, but he is surprised by a psychotic Adam, who knocks him down and tries to finish him off by biting him in the neck, but the hound gives him a half-moon blow, knocking him down and being able to get into an attack position, now being able to attack the fox, he bites her completely, causing her to become disoriented and ends up passing out from the smoke. While all animals flee the scene, except Charleigh, Rhys, Owlette, Gia, Dakota and Gaige and her sisters, who have the courage to seek a way to put out the fire, but they cannot find the lake, and end up being completely hopeless. Huusild then, when he sees them, lets out a shrill howl, he is carrying his owner, Charleigh rejoices to see the hound, and then orders Rhys to carry Ronan, and then Huusild shows them another way to go out of the forest. forest, and by coincidence, in this place there is a lake, which is where the animals are sheltered, but before Huusild and Charleigh leave the place Adam appears again, this time completely clumsy, with parts of his fur burned, marks of the fight with Huusild, and a frightening laugh in her, Gia notices the presence of the fox, and asks the others to return for help, but it is too late, and the flames have already closed the access back.

Charleigh tries to attack Adam, failing, and being answered with a kick from the fox, which makes her hit the back of her head on a stone, that scene makes Huusild awaken his worst side, and advance on Adam, giving a bite much more violent than the first time, but Adam uses his nails and scratches the muzzle of the hunting dog that has an impaired sense of smell, after that, Adam tries to apply a bite to his neck, and finish Huusild, but the dog ends up deviating and causing the fox slips down a huge ravine and falls in a place where the flames are everywhere, causing him to fall and die cremated in that fire. After the end of the fight, Huusild goes to rescue Charleigh, he is reassured to see the animals had managed to put out the flames in the place where the vixen was unconscious. Charleigh wakes up, which makes everyone rejoice in the fact that she is alive, Huusild then finally reveals his love for the fox, which reciprocates.

A few weeks pass, Oliver Shaw is arrested for forest fire, attempted murder, embezzlement, his farm is put up for auction, and Ronan claims it, due to the fact that he has to manage a lot of land, he decides to retire from hunting. Charleigh and Huusild, are now a couple, and the same is no longer a victim of estrangement on the part of the animals of the forest, Gaige finally created courage and revealed his feelings for Gia, Malia and Mila also found boyfriends, Rhys is proud because he is now parents of a successor, Dakota hit a tree trunk again and returned to her personality, or almost that, since after telling everything she did when she was in her alterego, she decides that life was much better this way and follows alongside Charleigh, Adam's body was found, most completely charred and there was no alternative but to dump his remains in a nearby river.

The film ends with all the animal characters in a circle of friends, they then see Ronan arriving with a new puppy, and decides to name him Adam, what surprises everyone is the fact that the puppy is extremely apparent to the antagonist, however they ignore this and decide to welcome the rookie, after all if he is a reincarnation of that snob fox, maybe giving him a little love will make him nice this time.

Voice cast

 * Huusild (voiced by Taylor Booth) is the protagonist who gives the film its name, a dog of an unspecified breed who lives an existential crisis after falling in love with a fox he has known since he was a boy, and who seeks a way to put an end to Oliver Shaw's tyranny alongside his caretaker, Ronan Sweeney. Over time, he nurtures a rivalry with Adam, which reaches the extreme limit of trying to kill each other, in search of winning Charleigh's heart.
 * Ryder Huff voiced Huusild as a puppy.
 * Charleigh (voiced by Danielle York) is the film's deutragonist, a young and attractive fox who manages to leave all males of all races drooling, but her real love is the dispute of only two males, the protagonist Huusild and the male fox Adam. She has a nonsense and carefree personality whose is most often responsible for putting her in embarrassing and risky situations. The main victim of her mockery is Rhys, the bossy deer who is proud to be the leader of the animals in that forest.
 * Naomi Lee voiced Charleigh as a cub.
 * Adam (voiced by Joel Butler) he is the antagonist to the story, he is a corpulent and charming fox who falls in love with Charleigh, he start to have some relationship with the vixen even when cubs, although he is never presented in his cub version, when he learns of such relationship between his beloved and the hunting dog Huusild, he gets a little more jealous and oppressive with his girlfriend, which brings a controversial scene to the film, when he is hinted by Owlette that perhaps Adam raped Charleigh at some point in the film. By the end of the film, his flirtatious personality gives way to a psychotic personality.
 * Ronan Sweeney (voiced by Camilo Valencia) the tritagonist of the film, owner of Huusild and an impeccable hunter, Ronan is a man who is around 40 years old and who seeks to lead a peaceful life on his ranch, but is pursued by farmer Oliver Shaw, who has ambition to take Sweeney the land where your house is located due to the fertile land of the place.
 * Oliver Shaw (voiced by Trevon Rose) is a secondary villain in the film, who tries in every way to remove Ronan from his land to claim the fertile land there.
 * Owlette (voiced by Chiara Costagliola) is a secondary character of the film, she is a mentor of sorts to the characters in the film except for the humans and Adam, who refuses to listen to her. She is also the voice that narrates the film and tells the viewer scenes not spoken by the characters.
 * Dakota (voiced by Jade Dawson) is a domestic Sphynx kitten with a rebel and wild alterego that is cared for by Oliver Shaw, she is initially a silent and ill-mannered cat, as well as a violent one, who expels Huusild from her owner's plantation, but after hitting her head on a tree trunk, she spends the rest of the film with another personality that is not her own, no wonder her name was different before hitting her head, after the incident, she only accepts being called "Dakota" for some unspoken reason. She becomes Charleigh's helper who helps her with some activities.
 * Gaige, Malia and Mila (voiced by Truman Mcpherson as Gaige, Isabelle Murphy as Malia and Jenna Macdonald as Mila) trio that is part of the humorous group of the film along with Dakota and Rhys. They also claim to be "disciples" of Owlette and are servants of Adam, who annoys them when he snubs them.
 * Rhys (voiced by Jagger Booth) is a bossy but clumsy peninsular mule deer, who boasts that he is treated as the leader of the animals in that forest, and who at first does not accept Huusild's entry there because he is a hunting dog. He is endlessly mocked by Charleigh, which makes him explode just hearing the vixen's name.
 * Gia (voiced by Karla Molina) is Charleigh's long-time friend who is a sweet person and who is the only one who never sees the strangeness of her friend's passion for Huusild and who disgusts Adam.