History Film / TheWaterHorseLegendOfTheDeep

* AndThatLittleBoyWasMe: The story of the old man to the tourists ends with shaking hands and telling them his name: Angus [=MacMorrow=].

* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, a little boy finds an egg just like Crusoe's]]

* TrulySingleParent: a water horse is a hermaphroditic creature that produces an egg without any assistance from another organism.

The film also stars Emily Watson as Anne [=MacMorrow=], Ben Chaplin as Lewis Mowbray, David Morrissey as Captain Thomas Hamilton, and Creator/BrianCox as the older Angus [=MacMorrow=].

'''''The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep''''' (known sometimes as just ''The Water Horse''), is a 2007 family fantasy film loosely based on a book by Creator/DickKingSmith, directed by Jay Russell and co-produced by the same company who co-produced ''Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', and the last film to be co-produced by Creator/RevolutionStudios. The plot revolves around Angus [=MacMorrow=] (Alex Etel), a boy who lives with his mother and sister in a mansion on the shores of Loch Ness. One day while looking for shells in the tidepools, he discovers what appears to be a large egg in the sand. He takes it home and puts it into his father's shed, but when he comes back to check on it later, he finds that it hatched a mysterious creature that he decides to call "Crusoe" after Literature/RobinsonCrusoe. Thus begins an adventure in secrecy and discovery that entangles itself in the age old mystery of the Loch Ness Monster.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Averted. While the Loch Ness Monster legend's only scientific answer is a surviving plesiosaur (which, contrary to popular belief, is not a dinosaur) species living in Loch Ness, Crusoe is never referred to as a plesiosaur, but rather a water horse, which is the mythological equivalent to the plesiosaur theory. That said Crusoe in both the film and book does resemble a plesiosaur in multiple ways more than the mythological water horse, which often looks like a seal or actual horse.

* ShownTheirWork: The famous "Surgeon's Photograph" of the Loch Ness monster was indeed a hoax, though the reason for the hoax is different than in the film.

* HistoricalInJoke: The [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Hoaxed_photo_of_the_Loch_Ness_monster.jpg famous supposed photograph]] of the Loch Ness is explained by two fishermen who ''did'' manage to see it, but were unable to catch it in action but needed to get evidence for a quick buck.

* ShownTheirWork: The famous "Surgeon's Photograph" of the Loch Ness monster did indeed turn out to be a hoax.

** Loch Ness is depicted as opening almost directly into the sea (hence the subplot about Crusoe being mistaken for a U-Boat. In reality, Loch Ness is five miles inland and eighty feet above sea level, the only access to the sea being the shallow River Ness, making it impossible for a U-Boat to enter the loch.

* StockNessMonster: Somewhat averted in that the story actually tries to make Crusoe into the legend of the Loch Ness monster, meaning that he's what its actually based on. This would mean that Crusoe's ancestors were probably the monsters sighted many many years before Crusoe's birth.

* TrulySingleParent: a water horse is a hermaphroditic creature that produces an egg without any assistance from another organism.

* StockNessMonster: Somewhat averted in that the story actually tries to make Crusoe into the legend of the Loch Ness monster, meaning that he's what its actually based on. This would mean that Crusoe's parent was probably the monsters sighted many many years before his birth.

* StockNessMonster: Somewhat averted in that the story actually tries to make Crusoe into the legend of the Loch Ness monster, meaning that he's what its actually based on. This would mean that his parents were probably the monsters sighted many many years before his birth.

* SingleSpecimenSpecies: The eponymous species, in a non-magical, non-FridgeLogic way. It's explained that each water horse lays a single egg and does not live to see it hatch. Whether there has ''always'' been only one water horse is not stated, but that's what the legends say and it certainly seems to be that way now.

* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his giant water beast.

The film also stars Emily Watson as Anne [=MacMorrow=], Ben Chaplin as Lewis Mowbray, David Morrissey as Captain Thomas Hamilton, and Creator/Brian ox as the older Angus [=MacMorrow=].

The film also stars Emily Watson as Anne [=MacMorrow=], Ben Chaplin as Lewis Mowbray, David Morrissey as Captain Thomas Hamilton, and Brian Cox as the older Angus [=MacMorrow=].

'''''The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep''''' (known sometimes as just ''The Water Horse''), is a 2007 family fantasy film loosely based on a book by Creator/DickKingSmith, directed by Jay Russell and co-produced by the same company who co-produced ''Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', and the last film to be co-produced by Creator/RevolutionStudios. The plot revolves around Angus [=MacMorrow=] (Alex Etel, with his older self portrayed by Brian Cox), a boy who lives with his mother and sister in a mansion on the shores of Loch Ness. One day while looking for shells in the tidepools, he discovers what appears to be a large egg in the sand. He takes it home and puts it into his father's shed, but when he comes back to check on it later, he finds that it hatched a mysterious creature that he decides to call "Crusoe" after Literature/RobinsonCrusoe. Thus begins an adventure in secrecy and discovery that entangles itself in the age old mystery of the Loch Ness Monster.