If you loved The Tortoise and the Hare, try Pinocchio

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The Tortoise and the Hare

1935 · dir. Wilfred Jackson

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Pinocchio

1940 · dir. Ben Sharpsteen, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts

What they share

Both films are directed by Wilfred Jackson, and they both carry the cozy mood tag, and they sit in Animation / Family / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Tortoise and the Hare, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

cozy

What Pinocchio is

A small workshop, winter, a half-finished puppet. A woodcarver's wish, a fairy's gift, a puppet's strings. It is a film to watch with children on a rainy day.

If you loved The Tortoise and the Hare, try Pinocchio

The Tortoise and the Hare

Pinocchio

What they share

What Pinocchio is

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