Overview
- The film begins a wide theatrical run Friday through Amazon MGM after scoring a 97% early critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
- It adapts Leonie Swann’s 2005 novel Three Bags Full into a cozy mystery where a flock of sheep investigates their shepherd’s death.
- Kyle Balda directs from Craig Mazin’s script, with Hugh Jackman onscreen and voices from Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Chris O’Dowd and Patrick Stewart.
- Reviewers highlight a gentle tone that tackles grief and memory within a PG, all-ages story.
- Box office trackers see a $10–15 million domestic opening, and a Prime Video streaming window is expected later though not yet announced.