The director of Pixar film Onward has said he hopes the film gives children dealing with grief some tools to help express themselves.
Dan Scanlon wrote the animated film based on his own experience of losing his father as a very young child. Both he and his brother had no memory of their father until a relative sent them a brief audio recording with his voice.
Onward, which is now streaming on Disney+ in the UK, follows two teenage elf brothers, voiced by Tom Holland and Chris Pratt, who also lost their father when they were young, who hear a recording of their father’s voice and try to perform a spell that will bring him back for a day, however it all goes wrong and all they manage to revive is his lower half.
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