The Sheep Detectives is an excellent movie. I wanted to clap and the end and did a little, but others did not.
How they can make the sheep work with humans, especially since the sheep only talk to themselves and not with people. But in this case they are the brains as well.
George Hardy (Hugh Jackman) loves his sheep. He would not think of butchering them, but just sells their wool. However he has leased some land to his neighbor, Caleb Merrow (Tosin Cole) who does butcher his sheep. Needless to say, Hardy does not like him. Hardy also does not like the butcher, Ham Gilyard (Conleth Hill). Hardy reads to his sheep; detective stories which they very much like, and the most clever of them, Lilly (Julia Luis Dreyfuss) seems to be able to solve the mysteries before Hardy reads the end.
There are two newcomers in town. One is the daughter of Hardy, who he has not seen for many years as she was adopted, Rebecca (Molly Gordon). Hardy has been seeking reunification with her and to introduce her to his sheep. She was adopted and the local priest, Reverend Hillcoate (Kobna Holdbrook-Smith). The other is a reporter in town to cover a cultural event which is put together by Beth Pennock (Hong Chau). It is pretty lame. She has feelings for Hardy, and steals a letter to her.
One morning Darby does not feed the sheep like usual, nor give them his medication. The sheep find him dead. Merrow bad been trying to get him to sell his sheep. He discovers the body. Officer Tim Derry (Nicholas Braun) takes over the investigation. He is not very bright and concludes it is a heart attack.
Other sheep who play in the story are Sebastian (Bryan Cranston) who is a mysterious ram who worked in a carnival fighting in a ring against dogs and was rescued by Hardy; the winter lamb (Tommy Birchall) who is ostracized being born at the wrong time of the year; Sir Ritchfield (Patrick Stewart) who is always regal; Mopple (Chris O'Dowd) who helps with the investigation, and accidentally gets his face covered with a cloth and knocks things over in the house during the reading of the will
Lastly also new in town is Lydia Harbottle (Emma Thompson), the lawyer for Hardy and there to read the will. The will leaves most everything to Rebecca and she becomes the primary suspect. It also divulges there is another brother in South Africa. Harbottle talks to him on the phone.
This movie is very fun with sheep doing crazy sheep things, and their coaching Derry with the investigation.
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