Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 American fantasy film directed by Spike Jonze and adapted from Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book of the same name. The film combines live action, performers in costumes, animatronics, and computer-generated imagery (CGI).
Max (Max Records) is a lonely boy with an active fantasy life. When his sister Claire's (Pepita Emmerichs) friends carelessly crush his snow fort in a snowball fight, and she doesn't do an...
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Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 American fantasy film directed by Spike Jonze and adapted from Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book of the same name. The film combines live action, performers in costumes, animatronics, and computer-generated imagery (CGI).
Max (Max Records) is a lonely boy with an active fantasy life. When his sister Claire's (Pepita Emmerichs) friends carelessly crush his snow fort in a snowball fight, and she doesn't do anything about it, he goes into a rage and makes a mess of her bedroom. When his mother Connie (Catherine Keener) invites her boyfriend (Mark Ruffalo) to dinner, Max throws a tantrum in which he bites her, and runs out of the house, still in the wolf costume he likes to wear. At the nearby seashore, he finds an abandoned sailboat, and sets out in it.
He eventually reaches an island, where he finds several large talking wild things, vaguely humanoid in shape with features resembling those of various animals:
Carol is in the middle of a tantrum...
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