Dinosaur

Name: Dinosaur
Genre: Family, Animation, Adventure, Drama
Released: 2000-05-19
Duration: 1 h 22 min
Rating: 7
Cast: D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere

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Dinosaur (2000)

Timing: 1:22 (82 min)

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Release date

2000-05-19

Country

United States

Production

Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Feature Animation, The Secret Lab

Genre

Family, Animation, Adventure, Drama

Budget

$127 500 000

Revenue

$349 822 765

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Director

Ralph Zondag, Eric Leighton

Actors

D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere, Samuel E. Wright, Julianna Margulies, Peter Siragusa, Joan Plowright, Della Reese
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Scenario

Producer

Pam Marsden

Operator

Steven Douglas Smith

Composer

James Newton Howard

Artist

Walter P. Martishius, Owen Klatte

Audition

Ruth Lambert, Mary Hidalgo

Editing

H. Lee Peterson, Pam Marsden
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Short description

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

What's left behind the scenes

A plot hole that some pointed out concerned the herd of dinosaurs that produced offspring, yet for some reason, no young remained in the area after birth. The reason is that severe cold set in during the winter and the land became barren, forcing the herd to leave the area.
Initially, it was assumed that the film would not have any dialogue at all, however, the head of Disney, Michael Eisner, insisted on including it in the script.
Directors Eric Leighton and Ralph Zondag initially intended to make a Tyrannosaurus the main antagonist; however, due to the 1997 release of Steven Spielberg's 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park', it was replaced by a Carnotaurus, although the Carnotaurus was made larger than it was in reality.
It was originally intended that the film would have no dialogue at all, but Disney CEO Michael Eisner insisted on including it in the script.
An Oviraptor steals a surviving egg from Aladar. According to modern research, Oviraptors, contrary to their name (literally “egg thieves”), did not steal eggs from other nests.
The coastline over which a pteranodon flies with an egg resembles the landscape of modern Australia.
Initially, directors Eric Leighton and Ralph Zondag intended to make a Tyrannosaurus Rex the main antagonist, however, due to the release of Steven Spielberg's 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park' in 1997, they switched to a Carnotaurus, but the Carnotaurus was made larger than they actually were.
Initially, the film was to open with a shot of a meteor moving through space, but this idea was abandoned when it was used in Michael Bay's adventure film "Armageddon" (1998).
A plot hole that some pointed out concerned a herd of dinosaurs that produced offspring, but for some reason did not remain in the area after the birth of the young. The reason was that severe cold set in during the winter period, and the land was barren, forcing the herd to leave.
The backdrop of the film consisted of photographs of exotic locations in Venezuela, Tahiti, and Hawaii superimposed onto the image in the frame.
It was originally intended to show a meteorite moving through space at the beginning of the film, but this idea was abandoned after it was used in Michael Bay's adventure film 'Armageddon' (1998).