# The Land Before Time (1988)

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**Runtime**: 69 min
**Genres**: Family, Animation, Adventure
**Directed by**: Don Bluth
**Written by**: Stu Krieger, Judy Freudberg, Tony Geiss
**Starring**: Gabriel Damon, Candace Hutson, Will Ryan, Judith Barsi, Helen Shaver, Pat Hingle

> *It is the dawn of time, the land of the dinosaur. Lost and alone, Littlefoot and his friends are about to embark on the journey of a lifetime.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Desert landscape, dry riverbed, a lone tree. A young brontosaurus and his new friends, a triceratops, stegosaurus, and others, journey together. Don Bluth's pre-Jurassic Park dinosaurs still hold up for kids on a rainy day.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, cozy, tender

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 7.4/10 (105330 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 65% · Metacritic 66/100

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