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Where The Wild Things Are

2009, Movie, PG, 104 mins

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Obviously, a children’s book as short as Maurice Sendak’s award-winning Where the Wild Things Are requires a great deal of fleshing out in order to exist as a full-length movie. Luckily, director and co-screenwriter Spike Jonze makes the movie his own by expanding the book’s universal themes about a boy learning to work through feelings of anger, sadness, frustration, and fear. We meet that boy, Max (Max Records), in a hilarious opening scene where he tears through his ho... read more leave a comment
Year: 2009
Rated PG

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Cast
Max Records: Max
Forest Whitaker: Ira
Lauren Ambrose: KW
Michael Berry Jr.: The Bull
Paul Dano: Alexander
Catherine O'Hara: Judith

 

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Where the Wild Things Are Tops Weekend Box Office

Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are proved to be where the money was this weekend as it debuted atop the movie box office.

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The adaptation of the Maurice Sendak children's book took in $32.5 million and ended up being a bigger hit with ... read more

Where the Wild Things Are Wows Comic-Con

Author Maurice Sendak couldn't be more thrilled with Spike Jonze's adaptation of his classic children's book, Where the Wild Things Are.

In a short video kicking off Warner Brothers' Comic-Con 2009 panel on Friday in San Diego, an enthusiastic Sendak explained how did Jonze "did his without giving up mine" and "it enhances and enriches my book," according to SciFiWire.com.

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