i recommend family if possible and to show this to older child only . some of the stuff in this film maybe too disturb for little one to handle . now that thats out of the way and let me explain about this movie . this be in reality a documentary of a male fox and who in the beginning be protect his territory and seek a mate . the beginning with the gorgeous sunrise and music score and be breath take . you have good soak in as much of the scenery a possible and it will get ugly later . they give both the fox and the vixen name and but i can not remember what they be for the like of me . he fight off this invade male and to win her love . they later on create a den and and the vixen give birth to four adorable cub while one of which be blind . there be many happy and playful moment feature the fox family and but tragedy and bad luck strike all too soon . the first victim be the blind pup and who get too close to a high tide and be wash away . the second victim be the mother and who while steal chicken be deceive by a dead chicken hang on a pole . she unknowingly walk into a foot trap . while try to escape she rip off part of her foot and cause her to bleed to death . the rest of the fox family be force to watch her die under a tree . the male be now a single dad and force to take on the roll of mom and dad . he alone have to teach them the skill they need for life . it later prove not to be enough and when two of the now grown pup meet an ugly fate of their own while thanks to the carelessness and cruelity of man . i would not spoil the surprising end for you and but it do show the farmer and his dog close on his tail . and it be a well deserve end after what the audience and the fox family be put through . i want to say that i saw this when it first come out in early 1980s and when we have a thing call showbiz cable . i be only 4 when i saw it and but i could never understand why they wouldn not let me see all of it . now i know why and after i secretly watch it when it come on disney and when i be 9. i felt emotionally gutted after see all this evil go on . i be move to tear . but a dark and ugly a it be and it serve a purpose . to let people what be go to these and other kind of animal and and why they be endanger . this documentary want to get the message across about this endanger specie and and i hop it work . it not fake like the true life nature film by disney and they do not teach about why animal be go extinct . the encroachment of land and the kill off of the fox main prey and and senseless killing of these beautiful animal while have result in them become endanger . i wish they would make sequel to this movie and ( glacier fox 2005 ) to see if theyre be treat well . maybe have it be about a vixen pup name teresa and her sibling grow up . this movie also kind of reflect what happen to human family sometimes and especially when one of the parent suddenly die . the survive parent take on the roll of both and and try to teach the important lesson of life . it isn not always enough to protect them when theyre adult and especially when some of their life becomes ruin . or they fall victim to tragedy themselves . best all around soundtrack and musical score i have ever hear .