Tall Tale (also known as Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill) is a 1995 American Western adventure fantasy film directed by Jeremiah Chechik, written by Steven L. Bloom and Robert Rodat, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Caravan Pictures and starring Scott Glenn, Oliver Platt, Nick Stahl, Stephen Lang, Roger Aaron Brown, Catherine O'Hara, and Patrick Swayze.

Stiles orders his men to kill them, but Pecos arrives and shoots off their trigger fingers, and the townsfolk join in to help, while Paul, who went inside while nobody noticed, cuts down the mine poles.

As Paul and John disappear with their animals, Pecos leaves his horse Widow-Maker to Daniel and twirls his lasso at a twister for his departure as Jonas witnesses it.

Caravan Pictures optioned the spec script for Tall Tale by the two writers Steven L. Bloom and Robert Rodat for $200,000 with a reported purchase price of $650,000-$750,000 in March 1993.

[2] Producer Joe Roth then offered the script to director Jeremiah S. Chechik who accepted as he was intrigued by the underlying themes of "the end" of the Old West with the advent of industrialization, and likened the film to The Wizard of Oz in how it played to adults as well as children.

[13] Ed Hulse of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B+, writing: "The exquisitely photographed landscapes pull you out of your living room and into the grandeur of the West".

[15] Joe Leydon of Variety also gave a positive review, stating the "pic is impressively larger than life, both in physical scale and heroic action.

[16] Leydon also admitted the film might have a hard time finding an audience because kids may not be as familiar with the stories of Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Paul Bunyan.

[16] In a negative review, Rita Kempley of The Washington Post wrote: "Mickey's minions herein transform three of America's rootin'est, tootin'est frontier superheroes into politically and ecologically corrected pablum-spewing icons for our time.

Aimed at kids more attuned to the niceties of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, this action adventure portrays the first of the forest-levelers, Paul Bunyan (Oliver Platt), as a benign Brobdingnagian tree-hugger".