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How Long Is “Balloon Farm”?

Name: Balloon Farm
Genre: fantasy, children
Released: 1999
Duration: 120 min
Cast: Rip Torn, Mara Wilson, Roberts Blossom, Fredric Lane, Richard Riehle

2h runtime

19992hfantasy • children

Fantasy film with a runtime of 120 minutes, released in 1999. Presented in English.

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Runtime2h

Minutes120

One SittingYes

With Break2h 12m

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A man proves that hope can grow in the flintiest of soil in this made-for-TV drama for the family. A farming community is struggling to survive a severe drought when a mysterious stranger named Harvey Potter (Rip Torn) arrives in town. Potter rents a farm, a move which is believed to be the height of foolishness by his new neighbors, but one day a local child, Willow (Mara Wilson), passes by Potter's field to discover that it's full of colorful balloons. Willow is convinced that Potter has found a way to grow balloons, and while her mother Casey (Laurie Metcalf) knows better, she sees that Potter has brought an excitement and joy back into the lives of the town's children that had been all but snuffed out by the recent dry spell. Willow thinks that Potter knows some sort of magic, and Casey considers him to be a well-meaning eccentric, but a few of the locals are convinced that he has something dangerous up his sleeve. Disney's Balloon Farm was based on the book Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm by Jerdine Nolen; it premiered on the television anthology series The Wonderful World of Disney.

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Runtime2h

Can Finish TonightYes

One SittingYes

With Break2h 12m

Movie Facts

Release Year1999

Runtime2h

LanguageEnglish

Genresfantasy, children

DirectorWilliam Dear

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