Pete's Dragon

Pete's Dragon (2016) is a family fantasy from director David Lowery you can watch online on iFILM. After a crash leaves a small boy alone in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, the thing that finds him is not a search party. It is a huge green dragon that can vanish in plain sight, and it raises Pete for six years as its own.

When forest ranger Grace stumbles onto the now ten-year-old Pete (Oakes Fegley), the tall tales her father Mr. Meacham (Robert Redford) used to tell about a dragon in the deep woods stop sounding like tales. Pete talks about a creature named Elliott, and the details line up too well. Soon a local logging family wants to track the animal down, and the boy faces a choice between the only family he remembers and the human world he half-forgot. Bryce Dallas Howard, Wes Bentley and Karl Urban round out the cast.

Lowery reworks Disney's 1977 original into something quieter and oddly melancholy, more interested in belonging than in spectacle. Stream Pete's Dragon (2016) online on iFILM.