The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013) (original) (raw)
T.S. Spivet lives on a ranch in Montana with his mother who is obsessed with the morphology of beetles, his father (a cowboy born a hundred years too late) and his 14 year-old sister who dreams of becoming Miss America. T.S. is a 12 year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. One day, he receives an unexpected call from the Smithsonian museum telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his discovery of the perpetual motion machine and that he is invited to a reception in his honor where he is expected to give a speech. Without ...(more)
T.S. Spivet lives on a ranch in Montana with his mother who is obsessed with the morphology of beetles, his father (a cowboy born a hundred years too late) and his 14 year-old sister who dreams of becoming Miss America. T.S. is a 12 year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. One day, he receives an unexpected call from the Smithsonian museum telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his discovery of the perpetual motion machine and that he is invited to a reception in his honor where he is expected to give a speech. Without telling anyone, he sets out on a freight train across the U.S.A. to reach Washington DC. (less)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Kyle Catlett, Julian Richings, Judy Davis, Niamh Wilson, Robert Maillet
Producers: Frederic Brillion, Gilles Legrand
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Review by Brian Orndorf, July 30, 2015
6 / 10
Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet doesn�t work very often, but when he ultimately winds himself up into production mode, his output is usually filled with substantial cinematic artistry, dark comedy, and flashes of tart whimsy. Responsible for �Amelie,� �The City of Lost Children,� and �A Very Long Engagement� (his lone dip into poisoned Hollywood waters, 1997�s �Alien: Resurrection,� remains woefully underappreciated), Jeunet doesn�t make lazy movies, but he doesn�t always make precise ones either. �The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet� is a head rush of big screen detail and beauty, but as a story ...read more...
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