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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

- Discover the extravagant journey.

A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.

Release Date : 2013-10-16

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Epithète FilmsCross Creek PicturesTapioca FilmsFilmarto

Production Country : CanadaFrance

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : T.S. Spivet

Original Name : Kyle Catlett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. Clair

Original Name : Helena Bonham Carter

Gender : Female

Character Name : G.H. Jibsen

Original Name : Judy Davis

Gender : Female

Character Name : Father

Original Name : Callum Keith Rennie

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gracie

Original Name : Niamh Wilson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Layton

Original Name : Jakob Davies

Gender : Male

Character Name : Roy

Original Name : Rick Mercer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Giant Hobo

Original Name : Robert Maillet

Gender : Male

Character Name : Two Clouds

Original Name : Dominique Pinon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ricky

Original Name : Julian Richings

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lecturer

Original Name : Richard Jutras

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lecturer

Original Name : Mairtin O'Carrigan

Gender : Male

Character Name : The vigilant

Original Name : Michel Perron

Gender : Male

Character Name : Marge

Original Name : Dawn Ford

Gender : Female

Character Name : Policeman

Original Name : Harry Strandjofski

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cathy

Original Name : Susan Glover

Gender : Female

Character Name : Smithsonian President

Original Name : James Bradford

Gender : Male

Character Name : Judy

Original Name : Lisa Bronwyn Moore

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jibsen's Secretary

Original Name : Felicia Shulman

Gender : Female

Character Name : Little Boy

Original Name : Dylan Kingwell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Towncar Driver

Original Name : Eric Davis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Reception Waitress

Original Name : Rebecca Amzallag

Gender : Female

Character Name : Reception Waitress

Original Name : Amber Goldfarb

Gender : Female

Character Name : Smithsonian's Receptionist

Original Name : Leigh Ann Taylor

Gender : Female

Character Name : Reception Guest

Original Name : Andrew Simms

Gender : Male

Character Name : Reception Guest

Original Name : Una Kay

Gender : Female

Character Name : Reception Guest

Original Name : Sylvia Stewart

Gender : Female

Character Name : Reception Guest

Original Name : Sabrina Reeves

Gender : Female

Character Name : Lady at train station

Original Name : Ana Alarcon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Waiter

Original Name : Zachary Amzallag

Gender : Male

Character Name : Photographer

Original Name : Kyle Allatt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Perpetual motion machine presenter

Original Name : Martin Brisebois

Gender : Male

Character Name : Airport Officer

Original Name : Victor Cornfoot

Gender : Male

Character Name : Smithsonian Scientist's Date

Original Name : Christie Claymore

Gender : Male

Character Name : Figuration

Original Name : Anne-Sophie Bozon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Student Butte Museum

Original Name : Kyle Gatehouse

Gender : Male

Reviews

Reno

@Rangan

2024-05-16

> Sure, everyone finds their pine tree. The film was produced by three countries from three different continents, carved by one of my favoutire French directors that talks of a prodigy child. An English language film set in the American soil. If you had liked his films, then you would like this one as well. Like all his films, it was visually fantastic and it was his first digital 3D project. One of the underrated film of the recent time. A road adventure and a coming-of-age film that neatly rendered especially for the family and children film fans. More like it was a kid version of 'Amelie' and now I realise why the author picked this particular foreign filmmaker for the cinematic translation. This is not some kid's summer vacation tale or the school related stuff, but a rural kid and his weird family. They're united by family, but divided by their field of interest. Born in such family, the film focused his life and mostly the fighting of his loneliness. It was based on the book about a 12 year old boy T.S. Spivet who lives on a ranch in the Rockies with his family. He's a scientific research enthusiastic and so one day he receives an unusual call from the Washington DC that he had won a prestigious award for his invention. After a sudden tragedy in the house he set to travel by his own to the other side of the country. The adventure begins as he hitchhike to his destination where he learns many things. > "The amazing thing about water drops, is that they always take the path of least resistance. For humans, it's exactly the opposite." The kid was brilliant, it was his perspective story. In one of the scenes when he gets hurt, that felt like it was real. His co-stars supported him all the way, but not as a game changer. You might agree with me that it is not a great story, somewhat familiar too, but the film topic is inspiring like how an atypical family cooperates during the bad times that compared with their negligence to each other at one point before. There are a few fun moments, but also gets emotional at the final part. The train journey had lots of effects on the narration, because I'd seen a road movie, but this is a very rare, especially it gives us some glimpse over awesome landscapes of different part of the country. Like I said, the cinematography was the best part of the film followed by many others. In the end, I was very satisfied for it is being somewhat simple with having an extraordinary boy character. Because, you know, genius boy means usually the writers goes for an extra mile to make him shine with his brain powers to perhaps face the bad guys or the bad situations for which the audience sets to go awe. Really very sad that it was not as popular as 'Hugo' where everyone who saw it comparing with, especially for the digital 3D visuals. That tells how much the people are addicted to Hollywood and of course marketing was not upto the standards as against the film's standard. In fact, it took me two years to learn such film is exist. So I definitely recommend it to all. If you have not seen it yet, just do it, you might like it, surely you would enjoy it. 8/10