Wounded and widowed after his WWI service, circus equestrian Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) finds the only task waiting for him is caretaker to the troupe's elephant-and the calf she bore with freakishly large ears. 

Holt's kids (Nico Parker, Finley Robbins) take charge of the taunted little pachyderm-and are the first to marvel how his appendages have amazingly given him the gift of flight. Tim Burton's stylish reimagining of the 1941 Disney classic co-stars Danny DeVito, Michael Keaton, Eva Green, Alan Arkin.