The Yearling

Jody convinces his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves? Trathnóna: Tráth Spongebob, A sensitive teenager grows up with a pet fawn in the Florida wilderness in the 1930s., This charming adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Majorie Kinnan Rawlings is both a poignant coming-of-age parable and an exploration of man’s relationship with nature. Jody, the 12-year-old son of an impoverished family living in the Florida Everglades, desperately wants a pet – a ‘luxury’ his parents cannot afford. An orphaned fawn provides an ideal substitute, and Jody determines to care for and rear the young creature. But when his new pet destroys the family’s precious crops, Jody faces a painful rite of passage., This is Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ heartwarming classic about a twelve-year-old boy coming of age through his devotion to an orphaned fawn. Jody Baxter may be the son of poor Florida farmers, but his relationship with the yearling enriches him in the ways of love and family responsibility., Twelve-year-old Jody Baxter has always wanted a pet of his own. But his family is desperately poor, and so his mother would never allow it – until Jody inadvertently finds himself the caretaker of an orphaned fawn after his father is forced to kill the deer’s mother. Based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this thoughtful and touching story marks a turning point for young Jody, as he painfully comes to understand his family’s responsibilities with respect to the yearling, especially when it begins to eat their precious few crops. Peter Strauss and Jean Smart star., The touching story of a young boy from a poor family who befriends a deer. His parents allow him to keep the orphaned fawn, but when it begins eating their crops, he is told that the creature must be killed., Twelve-year-old Jody Baxter has always wanted a pet of his own. But his family is desperately poor, and so his mother would never allow it – until Jody inadvertently finds himself the caretaker of an orphaned fawn after his father is forced to kill the deer’s mother. Based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this thoughtful and touching story marks a turning point for young Jody, as he painfully comes to understand his familys responsibilities with respect to the yearling, especially when it begins to eat their precious few crops. Peter Strauss and Jean Smart star., The touching story of a young boy from a poor family who befriends a deer. His parents allow him to keep the orphaned fawn, but when it begins eating their crops, he is told the creature must be killed., This moving made-for-TV movie is a faithful rendition of Marjorie Kinan Rawling’s timeless coming-of-age tale in which a boy living a hardscrabble life with his family in a Florida swamp must grow-up and face his responsibilities after he befriends an orphaned fawn.