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How to Train Your Dragon

2025 · Fantasy · Dean DeBlois · 2h 5m

On an island where Vikings have fought dragons for generations, the chief's inventor son shoots one down and cannot bring himself to kill it. A live-action remake, big and loud, with a boy and a dragon at the centre.

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