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Genres:
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Adventure /
Drama /
Family /
Fantasy
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Release:
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Director:
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Spike Jonze
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Actors:
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Mark Ruffalo,
Steve Mouzakis,
Max Records,
Joshua Jay,
James Gandolfini,
Catherine Keener,
Catherine O'Hara,
Forest Whitaker,
Chris Cooper,
Paul Dano
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Duration:
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101 min.
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Rating:
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(8.3/10)304
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Plot Summary:
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Max, a rambunctious and susceptible boy feels misunderstood at accommodation and escapes to where the Excited Things are. He lands on an ait where he meets mysterious and strange creatures whose emotions are as unchecked and unpredictable as their actions. The Wild Things desperately long owing a leader to counsel them, solely as Max longs fitted a area to ruling. When Max is crowned king, he promises to create a berth where one whim be contented. Max soon finds, though, that ruling his territory is not so easy and his relationships there try to be more complicated than he originally intention... .Read more Less
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Where the Wild Things Are
Claudia PuigMovies don't often allow unruly children a full palette of emotions. In Where the Wild things Are, a confusing jumble of feelings course through 9-year-old Max, making for a movie of surprising depth, poignancy and energy. He may rush headlong in his wolf costume, howling and leaping about, but Max is not just a wild child. He is creative, empathic and alienated. It's a pleasure to see director Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich), in collaboration with screenwriter Dave Eggers (Away We Go), take Max seriously. Purist fans of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book will have to set aside expectations to fully embrace the film version. But they should embrace it. Though it certainly honors the book, the film uses it mostly as a jumping-off poi...
Where the Wild Things Are
Kenneth TuranIn Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, less -- 10 sentences, 37 pages, 338 words -- became more: a much-loved children's book that's sold more than 19 million copies worldwide, 10 million in the U.S.
In the new film version of Sendak's classic, more -- admired director Spike Jonze, smart co-screenwriter Dave Eggers, top-flight actors including Chris Cooper, James Gandolfini and Forest Whitaker, and a budget estimated at $80 million to $100 million -- has paradoxically become less: a precious, self-indulgent cinematic fable that not everyone is going to love.
The difficulty starts with how little the filmmakers had to work with. A feature-length narrative had to be teased out of a tale that fit nicely into an eight-minute animated sho...
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