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A Monster Calls

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7.3/10 • 3.4K

2016-10-071h 48m

FantasyAdventureFamily

Stories are wild creatures.

12-year-old Conor encounters an ancient tree monster who proceeds to help him cope with his mother's terminal illness and being bullied in school.

Directors
J.A. Bayona
Editors
Bernat Vilaplana

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  1. Lewis MacDougall

    Lewis MacDougall

    Conor

  2. Sigourney Weaver

    Sigourney Weaver

    Grandma

  3. Felicity Jones

    Felicity Jones

    Mum

  4. Toby Kebbell

    Toby Kebbell

    Dad

  5. Ben Moor

    Ben Moor

    Mr. Clark

  6. James Melville

    James Melville

    Harry

  7. Oliver Steer

    Oliver Steer

    Sully

  8. Dominic Boyle

    Dominic Boyle

    Anton

  9. Jennifer Lim

    Jennifer Lim

    Miss Kwan

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Reno

Sep 4, 2017

7/10

An alternate way to confront the reality. Based on the British novel, made by a well known Spanish director. This film might remind you the titles like 'Finding Neverland', 'Where the Wild Things Are', 'Neverwas' et cetera, but still it is unique. Particularly for the message it carried out. Many lines were awesome, inspiring for those whose world are crumbling down. Emotional, as well as one of the best recent children's films. The story of a boy whose mother is severely ill. He starts to have weird dreams, following, an appearance of a tree-monster from the nearby cemetery. The monster is to tell a few tales and at the end of it, he has to tell the truth about his nightmares to him. So as the days go by, it becomes more challenging to him to confront the reality. He can't run away from all, but to face it and those are the remaining narration. While being a kid, they believe every fantasy tale have narrated to them. Even a picture of those tales would influence to have an imagination in their daily life activity. This film does not hide anything from the viewers just to bring a breathtaking twist at the finale. So, you would know what's happening, but why, is the puzzle to solve. Even that is not a hard nut to crack. Though the purpose of the film is to reveal how some children cope a tragic event in their life, like perhaps the film 'Before I Wake', with misunderstanding the words said by the grown ups to them. This is really a wonderful film for kids, as well as for adults. I Hope you won't miss it. 7/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$43,000,000.00
Revenue
$47,309,313.00
Keywords
dreamsmonsterbased on novel or booknightmaregrandparent grandchild relationshiptruthtreeartistbullyingterminal illnessbullycancerdiseasegrandmother