The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet Page #7

Synopsis: T.S. Spivet lives on a ranch in Montana with his mother who is obsessed with the morphology of beetles, his father (a cowboy born a hundred years too late) and his 14 year-old sister who dreams of becoming Miss America. T.S. is a 10 year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. One day, he receives an unexpected call from the Smithsonian museum telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his discovery of the perpetual motion machine and that he is invited to a reception in his honor where he is expected to give a speech. Without telling anyone, he sets out on a freight train across the U.S.A. to reach Washington DC. There is also Layton, twin brother of T.S., who died in an accident involving a firearm in the family's barn, which no one ever speaks of. T.S. was with him, measuring the scale of the gunshots for an experiment, and he doesn't understand what happened.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Director(s): Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie, Kyle Catlett
Production: The Weinstein Company
  5 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
78%
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PG
Year:
2013
105 min
688 Views

that is inexcusable.

It's okay, it's okay.

He's just kicking.

I thought you're going to give

birth on the kitchen again?

Again? I never gave birth in kitchen.

Really?

Then, why is my name Sparrow?

No, That was Gracie's idea.

She found a dead sparrow

here in the kitchen, the day

I had you in the hospital.

So she concluded that you were

the reincarnation of the sparrow.

I know when I die, an

elephant will be born.

Statistically speaking,

there are better chances that

next newborn Spivet, will be

the reincarnation...

of a toaster.

And in mean time,

I had only one month

left to finish my plans

for a new perpetual motion machine.

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet (French: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ ʒœnɛ]; born 3 September 1953) is a French film director and screenwriter known for the films Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien Resurrection and Amélie. more…

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