All the Little Animals is a 1998 drama film directed and produced by Jeremy Thomas and starring Christian Bale and John Hurt.

He finds himself in woodlands near Cornwall in England, eventually meeting an old man after being involved in a car accident (John Hurt).

Mr. Summers, as the man calls himself, spends his time traveling and giving burials to animals that have been killed by cars, a task he refers to as "The Work".

Jeremy Thomas, by then an Academy Award-winning producer, later remembered his journey to becoming a director: I read the book when I was young, in my twenties, and it stayed with me, and I thought for a fiftieth birthday present I would try and make a movie, to direct a film.

So I wanted to make a film about the heart of this book, which is about simple animals that we see every day in nature.