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Plot summary
Elmer Elevator and his mother Dela run a candy shop in a small town, until its customers move away and the shop must close. They settle in Nevergreen City, rent an apartment from the landlady Mrs. McClaren, and plan a new store, but the savings they were counting on are gone. Elmer befriends a cat, and the cat speaks, telling him of a dragon on Wild Island beyond the city who might help him. Elmer crosses to the island on Soda, a bubbly whale. There a gorilla named Saiwa relies on a young dragon to hold the island above the water.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about My Father's Dragon (2022)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film is dedicated to John Morgan, who co-wrote the story with Meg LeFauve and died of cancer in March 2016 while My Father's Dragon was in production.
- My Father's Dragon became Cartoon Saloon's first film to not achieve a Best Animated Feature nomination at the Academy Awards.
- Cartoon Saloon kept using TVPaint Animation for the hand-drawn brush and pencil strokes in the character animation, as in its films since Song of the Sea, but for the first time used Toon Boom Harmony for effects and digital ink-and-paint.
