Academy Awards, USA 1978
| Nominee Oscar | Best Music, Original Song Al Kasha Joel Hirschhorn For the song "Candle on the Water". |
| Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score Al Kasha Joel Hirschhorn Irwin Kostal |
Buena Vista Distribution
Directed by Don Chaffey
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Disney)
Young waif flees his abusive hillbilly family along with his imaginary friend a dragon. He ends up in a quaint seaside town and is befriended by lighthouse keeper Helen Reddy and her alcoholic father Mickey Rooney. No one sees the dragon except the boy and Rooney, who thinks it is just a hallucination due to his alcohol consumption. However, the invisible dragon manages to do quite a bit of damage around town. Showman Jim Dale and his sidekick Red Buttons arrive with their traveling medicine show and set their sights on capturing the dragon to make a quick buck. Mostly live action Disney embarrassment with Rooney particularly awful and Reddy barely tolerable. Animated dragon by Don Bluth is underutilized.
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