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Cast: Elisha Cuthbert, Anne Archer
Categories: Movies, Children's Fantasy, Children's/Family Nico the Unicorn is a family movie made in 1998, which follows the story of young Billy Hastings and his adventures with a mystical unicorn named Nico. The film is based on the children's book of the same name, written by Frank Sacks. Nico the Unicorn's filming took place in Canada's Eastern Townships.
Billy and his mother moved from Boston to rural Vermont after a car accident which left Billy fatherless and with a gimp leg. Billy has a hard time adjusting to life in Vermont and has trouble making friends. While shopping at the mall after school one day, Billy stumbles upon a ramshackle... MORE
Nico the Unicorn is a family movie made in 1998, which follows the story of young Billy Hastings and his adventures with a mystical unicorn named Nico. The film is based on the children's book of the same name, written by Frank Sacks. Nico the Unicorn's filming took place in Canada's Eastern Townships.
Billy and his mother moved from Boston to rural Vermont after a car accident which left Billy fatherless and with a gimp leg. Billy has a hard time adjusting to life in Vermont and has trouble making friends. While shopping at the mall after school one day, Billy stumbles upon a ramshackle petting zoo, where the animals are kept in poor conditions. After seeing a small pony with a horn taped to its head and finding out that it is about to be sold for slaughter, Billy instead makes a deal with the zoo keeper and buys the pony. Once Billy takes the pony home, he cleans her up and cares for her. The pony appears to be pregnant and eventually foals, under the watchful eye of Billy and his friend Carolyn. The pony's foal grows a horn and turns out to be a unicorn, who grows at a tremendous rate. Billy names the colt Nico from the letters found in the word "unicorn".
One day, while Billy LESS
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