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Where The Wild Things Are Review
filmofilia.com - 10/16/2009
Where The Wild Things Are Review
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The children’s classic “ Where the Wild Things Are ” is only nine sentences long. The new, live-action film version is more than 90 minutes long. You might expect that clever director Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) and trauma-tested co-writer Dave Eggers (A ...
Where the Wild Things Are Movie Reviews, Pictures
rottentomatoes.com - 10/16/2009
Where the Wild Things Are Movie Reviews, Pictures
— rottentomatoes.com — Synopsis: Innovative director Spike Jonze collaborates with celebrated author Maurice Sendak to bring one of the most... beloved books of all time to the big screen in “Where the Wild Things Are,” a classic... Innovative director Spike Jonze collaborates ... Where the Wild Things Are Movie Reviews, Pictures

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Some of His Best Friends Are Beasts
movies.nytimes.com - 10/16/2009
Some of His Best Friends Are Beasts
— movies.nytimes.com — Most of the snuffling, growling beasts that roam and often stomp through “Where the Wild Things Are,”... Spike Jonze’s alternately perfect and imperfect if always beautiful adaptation of the Maurice Sendak children’s book, come covered in fur. Some have ... Some of His Best Friends Are Beasts

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rogerebert.suntimes.com - 10/15/2009
Where the Wild Things Are
— rogerebert.suntimes.com — / / / October 14, 2009 by Roger Ebert "Where the Wild Things Are" reflects so much... of a plucky little kid: the flirting up of anger at a parent, the defiant escape into fantasy, the tough talk in a tight situation, the exuberance and then the ... Where the Wild Things Are

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