Where the Wild Things Are

action/adventure, family
94 mins
Release Date: october 16, 2009
Starring: catherine keener, max records, mark ruffalo, lauren ambrose... more »
Director: spike jonze

Phoenix Review

I can’t speak for the kids, but I would rate Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s 40-page children’s picture book up there with Up and Wall•E as topping the recent renaissance in children’s movies. If pressed, I’d rank it close to The Wizard of Oz . Read More »

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Rating: pg for mild thematic elements, some adventure action and brief language
Official Site: http://www.wherethewildthingsare.com/
Cast: catherine keener, max records, mark ruffalo, lauren ambrose, james gandolfini, catherin o'hara, forest whitaker
Director: spike jonze
Writer: michael goldenberg, dave eggers, spike jonze
Producer: john b. carls, gary goetzman, tom hanks, vincent landay, maurice sendak
Synopsis: based on maurice sendak's classic book, ", where the wild things are,", a young boy named max--after being sent to bed for misbehaving--imagines that he sails away to where the wild things are. max is loved by the wild creatures who make him their king, although he soon longs to be back home with his family.

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