Moonrise Kingdom

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Film TitleMoonrise Kingdom
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Length94mins
Year2012
CountryUnited States of America
DirectorWes Anderson
ActorsJared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Bob Balaban, Lucas Hedges, Charlie Kilgore, Harvey Keitel, Chandler Frantz, Gabriel Rush, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
LanguageEnglish
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Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

The hilarious and heartfelt Moonrise Kingdom is a consistent pleasure. By evoking the joys and terrors of childhood, it reminds us how to be alive.

Cheers for a Cannes director who has infused his technical mastery with radiant life. In the Museum of the World of Wes Anderson, the dolls are dancing.

Moonrise Kingdom represents a sort of non-magical Neverland — that momentous instant when the world can seem so small and a naive crush can feel all-consuming.