Robert Redford wears an unidentified watch

Robert Redford plays Mr. Meacham in Pete's Dragon, an old woodcarver in the Pacific Northwest who has been telling stories about a dragon in the forest for decades while everyone assumes he is making it up. David Lowery directed this 2016 remake, which reimagines the Disney original as a quieter, more grounded story about a boy named Pete who has been living in the woods with a giant green dragon since his parents died in a car crash. Bryce Dallas Howard plays Meacham's daughter Grace, a forest ranger who discovers Pete and has to decide whether her father's stories were true all along. Redford plays Meacham as gentle and unbothered by skepticism, a man who knows what he saw and does not need anyone else to believe him. The film treats the dragon with surprising restraint, making it feel more like a wild animal than a cartoon sidekick. His watch has not been identified.