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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Ten-year-old cartographer T.S. Spivet secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute. But no one there suspects that the lucky winner is a ten-year-old child with a very dark secret...
26 October 1969, Ste-Marie-de-Kent, New Brunswick, Canada
17 October 1969, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
1938, Wimbledon, Surrey, England, UK
8 September 1955, Hampstead, London, England, UK
16 September 1978
5 December 1933
23 April 1955, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
April 02, 2016
The second English-language feature by Amélie's Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a road movie that has captured its visually striking journey in glorious 3D.
December 18, 2015
Jeunet never finds a matching aesthetic, shooting in an over-saturated 3D palette and doubling down on forced Americana, although most of the film was shot in BC and Alberta. It just doesn't work.
August 06, 2015
Even at its zippiest ... The Young And Prodigious T.S. Spivet is infused with a pervasive sense of melancholy and loss, with a family that seems as damaged as they are lovably quirky.
August 05, 2015
It should have been Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Hugo, a 3-D art film to impress critics and families during holiday/awards season. Instead, it may be his Idiocracy.
April 09, 2015
A challenging film that adults might enjoy but one that is likely to leave younger audiences bewildered.
January 01, 2016
The quirky charm, visual wit and melancholy undertow of Reif Larsen's The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet translate joyously to the screen in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spite.
December 07, 2016
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet should be counted amongst the best of children's films.
April 10, 2015
Like cross-breeding a chihuahua with a Jack Russell, the result may be doubly cute, but also doubly annoying.
January 01, 2016
It's the multilayered 3-D wizardry with a retro feel that gives Young and Prodigious a delirious sense of timelessness, all set in a magic-realist world where ghosts and dogs might suddenly speak.
August 05, 2015
Everything you expect from Jeunet: playful filmmaking, a fanciful story, strange plot twists, delightfully eccentric characters and a lot more seriousness than it appears on the surface.
January 01, 2016
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.
October 16, 2015
Sad, beautiful tale of boy genius and tragic gun accident.
