My Pet Dinosaur

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Matt Drummond directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Profitable at the box office. Produced in Australia. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Shot for just $0.6M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
• 2Released 9 years ago.
• 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
• 4Jordan Dulieu and Joanne Samuel and David Roberts carry the top of the cast.
• 5Marketing tagline: "Making friends is easy, keeping them is impossible...".
• 6IMDB entry: tt6055082 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 7Only 61 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime

96 min · 1h 36m

Aspect ratio (typical)

1.37:1 (Academy)

Status

Released

Budget

$550,000

Box office

$1,483,677

Return

270% of budget

Original language

EN

Certification (US)

PG

IMDB

My Pet Dinosaur (2017) ↗

Also by

Matt Drummond

• 
  The Secret Kingdom

  2023 · ★ 6.3
• 
  Dinosaur Island

  2014 · ★ 5.4

Stills · wallpapers

Selected frames

Full-resolution frames — open one to save it as a wallpaper.

Wallpaper

Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

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  My Pet Dinosaur - (HD) Official Trailer, 2017.

  Trailer

Community reviews

What people are saying

• Reno2018-02-04
  ★ 3/10

  The story that has been told a thousand times before this! There are lots of low rated Aussie films, this is definitely not one of them. I thought it was deliberately bashed, but after watching it, I realised it's not any good and deserved those remarks. With such production, they should have come up with a nice storyline. Visually, it was okay-okay kind, but the story, the filmmakers are lucky that no one sued them for copying it from other flicks. Kids with bikes, a science experiment gone wrong, annoying brother and mom's new boyfriend, A new girl in the town, it was everything you have already seen. All the above, that army general was insanely bad. Why did not they get a decent actor for that important role! Performances of those soldiers were even worse, very bad than a television film made for little kids. A young kid discovers a baby dinosaur in his room, that might have come from the chemical reaction from the materials he and his gang got while exploring the woods nearby. He finds hard to hide instantly growing this unknown species, especially from the army who are sweeping the town. Where the story heads and ends are the rest of the film with some adventures. The kids were good, but not the rest. As I said the story was the worst thing happened to it. The film failed to give a proper answer to all the puzzle at the end. It's worth a watch only if you haven't seen many films in your life. But that's impossible among the majority. Yet I believe the children might enjoy it. However, I suggest films like 'ET', 'Earth to Echo', Goonies' many more over this one anytime. 3/10

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Production companies

Who made it

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  Splendid Film

  DE

Key crew

• MusicChris Wright
• Line ProducerCarol Drummond
• ProducerMegan Williams
• Associate ProducerPat Drummond
• Executive ProducerFaisal Toor

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• dinosaur
• family

Release history · US

When it landed

• Digital2017-11-07PG

Also known as

International titles

• 我的寵物恐龍TW
• My Pet DinosaurIT
• 宠物恐龙CN
• Mijn Dino en IkNL
• Mi pequeño dinosaurioMX