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Pete's Dragon (2016)
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The 1977 musical's Elliott is a mischievous cartoon companion; David Lowery's 2016 version makes him feel like a living animal whom a lonely child has learnt to trust. Fur, breath and the weight of a body against trees give the friendship a tactile tenderness. The new woodland story sheds most of the earlier film's plot and songs. Choose it for a quieter adventure about finding a home, while allowing for an upsetting parental-loss opening.
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About Pete's Dragon
For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales... until she meets Pete, a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie, an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.