<Tr> <Th> Language </Th> <Td> English </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $84.4 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Land Before Time is a 1988 animated adventure drama film directed and produced by Don Bluth and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, and Frank Marshall . </P> <P> Produced by the American companies Amblin Entertainment and Lucasfilm, and the American - Irish Sullivan Bluth Studios, it features dinosaurs living in the prehistoric times . The plot concerns a young Longneck named Littlefoot who is orphaned when his mother is killed by a Sharptooth . Littlefoot flees famine and upheaval to search for the Great Valley, an area spared from devastation . On his journey, he meets four young companions: Cera the Threehorn, Ducky the Bigmouth, Petrie the Flyer, and Spike the Spiketail . </P>

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