The obvious product of a corporate search for the next great fantasy franchise, this adaptation of the first in a series of popular children's books by the writer-illustrator team of Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi is a lump of leaden whimsy.
Nine-year-old twins Simon and Jared Grace (Freddie Highmore) and their 13-year-old sister, Mallory (Sarah Bolger), are uprooted when their parents separate, and their overwhelmed mom, Helen (Mary-Louise Parker), moves them from New York City to the spooky country home she inherited from dotty Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick (Joan Plowright). Mallory and Simon understand that their father left them for another woman and that in ...
Released:
2008
Rated:
PG
Length:
97 mins