All The Little Animals

British producer Jeremy Thomas made his directorial debut with this drama adapted from the novel by Walker Hamilton. Hindered by a childhood auto accident, teen Bobby (Christian Bale) is a misfit from a well-to-do family; he suffers yet another setback after the premature death of his mother. His ...more

This bizarre but highly original film teaches an important lesson: Be nice to the next one down in the food chain or Mother Nature will swallow your Rolls Royce. On the surface, the production is a be-kind-to-animals homily in which a brain-damaged runaway youth and an eccentric recluse roam England's Cornwall countryside to bury animals killed by speeding cars and lorries. But beneath the surface the film is a plea for advancing civilization to slow down long enough to consider the meaning of ...more