The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet

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Original title: L'extravagant voyage du jeune et prodigieux T. S. Spivet (The Young and Prodigious Spivet)
Year: 2013
Running time: 105 min.
Country: France
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Screenwriter: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant (Novel: Reif Larsen)
Music: Denis Sanacore
Cinematography: Thomas Hardmeier
Cast: Kyle Catlett, Helena Bonham Carter, Robert Maillet, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie, Julian Richings, Rick Mercer, Jakob Davies, Dominique Pinon, Niamh Wilson, Amber Goldfarb
Producer: Co-production France-Canada;
Genre: Adventure. Comedy | Comedy-Drama. Road Movie. Childhood. Family Relationships. 3D
Synopsis / Plot: A 10-year-old 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.

Awards: 2013: César Awards: 3 technical nominations

Critics' reviews

"'The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet' is the perfect 3D vehicle and Jeunet takes full advantage, offering a feast of amusing visual flourishes suited to the book’s playfulness."

Jay Weissberg: Variety
"The film's greatest achievement is in the way the accomplished 3D treatment (...) emerges entirely naturally, as the precise expression of a gifted child’s vivid imagination."

Jonathan Holland: The Hollywood Reporter
"For all it boasts in ingenious style, this genial American yarn lacks the delicious bile of Jenuet's early days. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"

Ian Nathan: Empire
"The two adjectives in the title should be replaced with 'annoying' and 'unendurably tiresome'. (...) Rating: ★ (out of five)"

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian

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