So Dear to My Heart
1948 · Movie · NR · 82 min · ★ 6.6 · 58% critics
In a nostalgic rural setting, a determined farm boy raises a rejected lamb and dreams of entering it at the county fair. With support from a kind adult and resistance from a strict guardian, he learns about responsibility, persistence, and what really matters.
Based on Midnight and Jeremiah
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Details
- Years
- 1948
- Release date
- 1948-11-29
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Critic score
- 58/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (49 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy gentle classic Disney, farm-life stories, and childhood determination like Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus; Not for you if you need fast pacing.
Pros: sweet family warmth; simple moral lessons; nostalgic rural setting | Cons: slow in parts; very old-fashioned; animation feels interruptive
Themes
- indiana, usa
- lamb
- animated scene
- based on children's book
- live action and animation
- child protagonist
- 1900s
Cast & crew
Bobby Driscoll
as Jeremiah 'Jerry' Kincaid
Luana Patten
as Tildy
Beulah Bondi
as Granny Kincaid
Burl Ives
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
Harry Carey
as Head Judge at County Fair
Raymond Bond
as Pete Grundy - Storekeeper
Walter Soderling
as Grampa Meeker
Matt Willis
as Mr. Burns - Horse Trainer
- SC
Spelman B. Collins
as Judge
John Beal
as Jeremiah as an Adult - Narrator (voice)
Directed by Hamilton Luske, Harold D. Schuster