Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

2022 · 106 min · dir. Will Speck, Josh Gordon

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile is a 2022 American musical comedy-drama film produced and directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon from a screenplay by William Davies. Produced by Columbia Pictures and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is an adaptation of the children's story of the same name and its predecessor The House on East 88th Street by Bernard Waber. The plot focuses on a family who moves to New York City, where their struggling son befriends an anthropomorphic crocodile, Lyle, who can communicate verbally only by singing. The son tries to protect Lyle from the rest of the world. The film stars Shawn Mendes as Lyle's singing voice, alongside Javier Bardem, Constance Wu, Winslow Fegley, Scoot McNairy, and Brett Gelman. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.