- Adventure, Drama, Family
- 105 min
- PG
Rotten Tomatoes78%Metacritic53IMDb7.0
Discover the extravagant journey.
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
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- Renoon TMDB · Jul 20168/10
> Sure, everyone finds their pine tree. The film was produced by three countries from three different continents, carved by one of my favoutire French directors that talks of a prodigy child. An English language film set in the American soil. If you had liked his films, then you would like this one as well. Like all his films, it was visually fantastic and it was his first digital 3D project. One of the underrated film of the recent time. A road adventure and a coming-of-age film that neatly rendered especially for the family and children film fans. More like it was a kid version of 'Amelie' and now I realise why the author picked this particular foreign filmmaker for the cinematic translation. This is not some kid's summer vacation tale or the school related stuff, but a rural kid and his weird family. They're united by family, but divided by their field of interest. Born in such family, the film focused his life and mostly the fighting of his loneliness. It was based on the book about a 12 year old boy T.S. Spivet who lives on a ranch in the Rockies with his family. He's a scientific research enthusiastic and so one day he receives an unusual call from the Washington DC that he h
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Cast
- Kyle CatlettT.S. Spivet
- Helena Bonham CarterDr. Clair
- Judy DavisG.H. Jibsen
- Callum Keith RennieFather
- Niamh WilsonGracie
- Jakob DaviesLayton
- Rick MercerRoy
- Robert MailletGiant Hobo
- Dominique PinonTwo Clouds
- Julian RichingsRicky
Crew
- Jean-Pierre JeunetDirector
- Guillaume LaurantScreenplay
- Jean-Pierre JeunetWriter
- Thomas HardmeierDirector of Photography
- Denis SanacoreOriginal Music Composer
- Hervé SchneidEditor
- Gilles LegrandProducer
- Frédéric BrillionProducer
- Jean-Pierre JeunetProducer
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