
Animal Companion Family movies
Family movies where a pet is central, driven by loyalty, caretaking, home life, and the human-animal bond.

102. Ice Age
Animation Comedy Family Adventure Family Animation2002•1h 21min
United States
Director: Chris Wedge
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Manny the mammoth, Sid the loquacious sloth, and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger go on a comical quest to return a human baby back to his father, across a world on the brink of an ice age.
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103. Chicken Run
Animation Comedy Family Stop-Motion Animation Animal Companion Family2000•1h 24min
France, United Kingdom
Director: Peter Lord
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The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly! It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her feathered friends to fly…but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o’ cluck, the fearless flock plots one last attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.
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104. Dinosaur
Animation Family Adventure Drama Family Animation2000•1h 22min
United States
Director: Ralph Zondag
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An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
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105. The Tigger Movie
Animation Family Comedy Family Animation Animal Companion Family2000•1h 17min
United States
Director: Jun Falkenstein
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Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and Rabbit are preparing a suitable winter home for Eeyore, the perennially dejected donkey, but Tigger's continual bouncing interrupts their efforts. Rabbit suggests that Tigger go find others of his kind to bounce with, but Tigger thinks "the most wonderful thing about tiggers is" he's "the only one!" Just in case though, the joyously jouncy feline sets out to see if he can find relatives.
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106. My Dog Skip
Comedy Drama Family Coming-of-Age Drama Animal Companion Family2000•1h 35min
United States
Director: Jay Russell
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A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood. Based on the best-selling Mississippi memoir by the late Willie Morris.
