Tow-Truck Pluck

Tow-Truck Pluck (2004)

Pluk van de Petteflet

Pluk has a great red crane truck, but no home. Like every little boy, he needs a place to live. So it fits well that a tower room is available in the colorful Petteflet apartment block. Pluk can move in here and immediately makes new friends, but he also gets in a lot of trouble: With Ms. Sauberer, who always cleans, and the architect who wants to cut down the idyllic Turtelpark ...

Date of release
2004-11-17
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Family, Fantasy
Director
Ben Sombogaart, Pieter van Rijn

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Pluk van de Petteflet
  • Awards: 2 · Nominations: 0. Including: Platinum Film; Golden Film

Tow Truck Pluck, also known as Pluk and his Tow Truck, is a 2004 Dutch comedy musical family film directed by Ben Sombogaart and Pieter van Rijn. It's an adaptation of the 1971 children's book Pluk van de Petteflet by Annie M.G. Schmidt, starring Janieck van de Polder as the titular character.

Production

The film was originally planned to be a stop-motion animated film, but was scrapped in favor of live-action with puppetry due to budget constraints.

Janieck van de Polder, Suzanne Zuiderwijk, Hanneke Riemer, Arjan Ederveen, Erik van Muiswinkel, and ex-politician Erica Terpstra were cast in March 2004. Filming took place at NOB-Studios in Almere.

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