The Land Before Time

1988
G
1h 9m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

101K

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Dinosaur Adventure Hand-Drawn Animation Survival Adventure Animation Drama Family

An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

101K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

3,267

453

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Awards
- 2 nominations

Narrator
(voice)
…

Gabriel Damon

Littlefoot
(voice)

Helen Shaver

Littlefoot's Mother
(voice)

Bill Erwin

Grandfather
(voice)

Candace Hutson

Cera
(voice)
(as Candy Hutson)

Burke Byrnes

Daddy Topps
(voice)

Judith Barsi

Ducky
(voice)

Will Ryan

Petrie
(voice)

Frank Welker

Spike
(voice)
(uncredited)
…

Director
- Don Bluth
Writers
All cast & crew
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Storyline

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Trivia
Judith Barsi, who did the voice for Ducky, was murdered by her father four months before the film's release. Judith was only ten years old. Her headstone includes her famous line in this film, "Yep! Yep! Yep!"

Goofs
Petrie and all other Pteranodons are portrayed as herbivores, while it has been proven that Pteranodons ate fish instead.

Quotes
Littlefoot's mother: Let your heart guide you. It whispers so listen closely.

Crazy credits
The credits roll with several backgrounds of the Great Valley at nighttime scrolling by.

Alternate versions
In the 2003 DVD, 2015 DVD and Blu-ray, and digital printings, there have been a few audible edits in addition to the film's restoration.

Connections
Edited into An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island (1998)

Soundtracks
If We Hold On Together
Music and Words by James Horner and Will Jennings
Produced by Peter Asher
Performed by Diana Ross

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7/10

My favorite movie for a very long time.

Now, having been such a raging fan of this movie when I was a kid (I still like it as an adult, just not nearly as much), I don't really know if I've got the right to write a review of it.

About the only thing I have to say, really, is that there's more personality in that one little Pterodactyl who offers Littlefoot his cherry than in the entire cast of "Disney's Dinosaur".

Other than that, I only have to offer up the following bit of trivia that fellow "L.B.T." fans should go nuts over. It turns out that shortly before "Land Before Time" was officially released, about one million dollars worth of footage was cut from the film. Think about that the next time you watch it. You'll notice things like how suddenly we cut from Sharptooth and Littlefoot's mom's battle to the earthquake sequence. If Universal *really* loved us (ahem, Money To Be Made here), they'd give us a director's cut or something. Just a thought.