PREVIEW: My Father’s Dragon (PG)

WHO’S IN IT?

Jacob Tremblay (Room), Gaten Matarazzo (Honor Society), Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost), Ian McShane (Coraline), Golshifteh Farahani (Paterson), Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters), Rita Moreno (West Side Story), Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids), Judy Greer (Halloween Kills), Alan Cumming (Spy Kids), Yara Shahidi (The Sun Is Also A Star), Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children), Mary Kay Place (Girl, Interrupted), Leighton Meester (The Roommate), Spence Moore II (film debut), Adam Brody (Jennifer’s Body), Charlyne Yi (Knocked Up), Maggie Lincoln (film debut), Jack Smith (Lords of Dogtown)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner), director; Meg LeFauve (Inside Out), writer; Bonnie Curtis (A.I. Artificial Intelligence), Julie Lynn (Albert Nobbs), Tomm Moore (Song of the Sea) and Paul Young (Wolfwalkers), producers; Jeff Danna (Onward) and Mychael Danna (Life of Pi), composers; Richie Cody (Wolfwalkers), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Elmer (Tremblay), a young boy struggling to fit in to his new life in the city, runs away from home and ventures to a mysterious island populated by fantastical creatures, including a dragon named Boris (Matarazzo). Elmer and Boris soon form a strong friendship as they go on a perilous adventure together…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Cartoon Saloon, the Irish animation studio behind Oscar-nominated hits like Song of the Sea and Wolfwalkers, teams with Netflix for a bright and colourful new animated adventure for the whole family to enjoy.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 11TH NOVEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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