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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story

1993 · 106 min

A gentle, sentimental family adventure with a playful creature and a wistful undertow about a girl longing for her mother.

Overview: A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her paleontologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
How it feels: Warm, whimsical, earnest and melancholic. Measured and easy to follow.
About: Family, parenthood, coming-of-age, nature
Content: Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
parenthood
coming-of-age
nature
love
Places: countryside
small town
wilderness
Era: contemporary
Audience: family
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none