All the Little Animals (1999)

Bobby Platt is a mentally slow young man who escapes an abusive, hateful stepfather who has killed his pets one by one. To save himself, Bobby runs away and meets a strange old man who wanders the highways to bury roadkill animals. Bobby becomes the old man's apprentice and learns to see the world of nature in a strange idyllic way. But soon the shadow of his stepfath... Read all

Director: Jeremy Thomas

Cast: John Hurt, Christian Bale, Daniel Benzali, James Faulkner, John O'Toole, Amanda Boyle, Amy Robbins, John Higgins, Kaye Griffiths, Sevilla Delofski, Helen Kluger, Shane Barks, Sjoerd Broeks, Elizabeth Earl, Andrew Dixon, Michael Lewis, Ruth Wright, Leonard Brindley