![]() While most adaptations so far managed to put enough plot into their runtime to not make it feel padded (albeit some were only around 45 minutes), this one reminds us why Irving’s story is a short story. This at least an interesting development on her character, and Rachelle Lefevre does a fine, if not particularly memorable, job. Brom wants to move her to a different farm in the still frontier-ish Ohio, while Ichabod wants to take over her father’s farm. It does show Katrina as particularly adventurous, wanting to travel the world and visit Amsterdam. Ichabod comes to teach school, he falls for Katrina, he teaches singing, he eats a lot. Instead, it really seems like it was rushed out in the wake of Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow. Now, that would be fine if the performance made up for it, but it clearly doesn’t.Īs for the story, it follows all the beats it has to, but it just doesn’t have any heart. While most of the residents of Sleepy Hollow speak in a sort of faux-British accent, Brom Bones (Paul Lemelin) speaks like he just walked out of a ’90s high school comedy.Īlso, he doesn’t seem to have the physical presence of the typical Brom Bones, who’s played up as the town bully. It does kind of seem that everyone’s acting in their own different movie. Someone really needed to tone him down here, or everyone else needed to ham it up equally. I kept trying to get into this movie, because the scenery is just fine and the music is nice enough, but Carver’s hammy performance kept drawing me out of it. Here, Carver is playing up Crane as a ridiculous caricature against others who aren’t playing that, and it shows. Sure, he’s this way in the actual cartoon, but everyone is a cartoon there. He’s so posh and pseudo-intellectual, which is his character in the story, but it’s played up ridiculously here. Ichabod Crane is played by Brent Carver, who portrays him as a total cartoon character. In the prologue to Irving’s tale, he claims that “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was found among Diedrich Knickerbocker’s papers, so it’s a nice little shout-out to fans of the story. It’s a clever little spin on what we may be expecting, and it’s eventually revealed that this man is named Knickerbocker. The man says he’s collecting stories for his travel journal, so the locals then begin to tell him the tale of Ichabod Crane. His name is not given outright, so we’re led to believe this could be Ichabod Crane. It is very obscure, and features no famous actors, so is this rightfully lost to history or a lost gem?Ī young man (Paul Hopkins) comes to a Sleepy Hollow tavern and begins talking with the locals. The third adaptation of Irving’s story to come out in 1999, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a Canadian-produced television film. Starring: Brent Carver, Rachelle Lefevre, Paul Lemelin.
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