Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2012 • 129 minutes
4.1
567 reviews
45%
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PG-13
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Eligible
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Adapted from the acclaimed bestseller by Jonathan Safran Foer, "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father's belongings sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open. A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls "The Worst Day," he is determined to keep his vital connection to the man who playfully cajoled him into confronting his wildest fears. Now, as Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs in quest of the missing lock - encountering an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their own way - he begins to uncover unseen links to the father he misses, to the mother who seems so far away from him and to the whole noisy, dangerous, discombobulating world around him. © 2011 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Rating
PG-13

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4.1
567 reviews
Wayne Kushnier
September 7, 2015
Bogus Attempt to Rip Off 9/11 Trauma! Regardless of whether it was the director's vision or simply bad acting the way the kid behaved before trauma would have been enough for him to be sent to an institution. Completely unbelievable and foolish. Whatever the intent of the movie it fails completely - more than any other movie I've ever seen. Extremely Stupid & Incredibly Bad is a far better title. Nuff Said
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A Google user
May 19, 2012
I have read the book before I watched the movie, and to tell the truth, I kind of like the book better. But the movie was good too, but I just thou that the movie was missing a lot of which the book had. Sopilers don't read if you haven't watched the movie, or read the book. The movie did not have the 103 year old Mr.Black that was just above Oskers apartment that followed him, instead, the renter (grandpa) followed him. I the ending, it was sort of similar, but different. In the book, Osker digs up his fathers empty grave, which did not happen in the movie. I also don't remember the renter leaving in the book. He was the one who helped dig up the grave. They also left out the play, that osker was in, and his grandma being there and embaress him with her sneezing. Over all it was a good movie, but I think the book was better. More detail, more things to happen, and it is the original thing. I think Thomas horn did great if his first movie.
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KL A
July 14, 2016
Kid deserved to be miserable. Selfish, crazy little shit. I lost my father and one of my brothers only 2 years apart. doesn't make him right at all. He was a ridiculous kid before the father died, so don't say he only acted crazy after. Full of holes. Typical 21st century movie. Pathetic.
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