Some secrets are too big to keep.
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.
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Classical in form, effortless, resolved and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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Cast
- Oakes FegleyPete
- Bryce Dallas HowardGrace
- Wes BentleyJack
- Karl UrbanGavin
- Oona LaurenceNatalie
- Robert RedfordMr. Meacham
- Isiah Whitlock Jr.Sheriff Gene Dentler
- John KassirElliot the Dragon (voice)
- Marcus HendersonWoodrow
- Aaron JacksonAbner
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- David LoweryDirector
- Toby HalbrooksScreenplay
- David LoweryScreenplay
- Bojan BazelliDirector of Photography
- Daniel HartOriginal Music Composer
- Lisa Zeno ChurginEditor
- Jim WhitakerProducer
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