Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

Recommended

USA/Germany

Feature Film

Director: Spike Jonze

Writers: Dave Eggers, Spike Jonze, Maurice Sendak

Cinematographer: Lance Acord

Composers: Carter Burwell, Karen O.

Cast: Max Records, James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker, Michael Berry Jr., Chris Cooper, Lauren Ambrose, Catherine Keener

After an argument with his mother, Max, a lonely young boy with an unhappy home life and a rich imagination, runs away to a village filled with decidedly world-weary monsters, who proceed to make him their king, in Jonze’s gently humorous, quietly moving, and surprisingly downbeat kids’ film. Iain.Stott