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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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Tom Hanks, Thomas Horn
Jan 20, 2012
PG-13, 2 hr. 9 min.

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Movie Info

Cast: Tom Hanks, Thomas Horn, Sandra Bullock, Zoe Caldwell, Dennis Hearn, Paul Klementowicz, Julian Tepper, Caleb Reynolds, John Goodman, Max von Sydow
Director: Stephen Daldry
Rated: PG-13
Running Time: 2 hr. 9 min.
Genre: Drama
Theater Release: Jan 20, 2012
DVD Release: Mar 27, 2012
Synopsis: Oskar (Thomas Horn) is convinced that his father (Tom Hanks), who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother (Sandra Bullock) and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his own loss to a greater understanding of the observable world around him. -- (C) Warner Bros

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
    The mysteries aren't that mysterious and some may have a hard time embracing its abrasive hero.
  • Tom Long, Detroit News
    "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is the kind of movie you want to punch in the nose.
  • Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
    If imagining a city where people open their doors (or don't) to a boy with a key and a ton of questions is sentimental ... then it is vitally, beautifully so.
  • Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
    Stephen Daldry's extremely labored and incredibly crass adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel.
  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
    The difficulty is mainly with the story, which despite all the emotion hovering around it, remains thin and uninvolving.
  • Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
    [It] gets far too cute.
  • Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
    The movie forgoes Foer's ambitious tweeness and presents Oskar's outbursts and moodiness - that precociousness - as a disorder.
  • Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
    Not for moviegoers who hold that heartstring-plucking is a betrayal of the contract between director and audience.
  • Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
    Innocent Oskar and his isn't-life-wondrous adventures left me disappointed, depressed and somewhat irritated.
  • Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
    Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock ... Max von Sydow, Zoe Caldwell, Viola Davis, Jeffrey Wright, John Goodman... thanks for your honest efforts in the service of a fundamentally dishonest weepie.
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