The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

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

AroView: The director of AMELIE’s first American-set feature is another impressive, fairy-dusted vision bursting with child-like wonder, and as a road movie narrative is a satisfying trip for those aged in double digits.

“A dreamlike fairytale, which swims in the romanticism of childhood and the decay of the American Dream.” ~Joe Walsh, CINEVUE