Where The Wild Things Are

Synopsis: A young boy named Max has an active imagination, and he will throw fits if others don't go along with what he wants. Max - following an incident with Claire (his sister) and her friends, and following a tantrum which he throws as a result of his Mother paying more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including one named Carol who is much like Max himself in temperament. Instead of eating Max like they normally would with creatures of his type, the wild things befriend Max after he proclaims himself a king who can magically solve all their problems.
Director(s): Spike Jonze
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 7 wins & 53 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
71
Rotten Tomatoes:
73%
PG
Year:
2009
101 min
$77,222,184
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bWHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE/b

Hey, Claire!

Wanna see something great?

Who else was there?

It's an igloo.

- And?

- I made it.

Yeah, my brother.

Hey, Claire?

I can't. We're supposed to go

to my dad's that weekend.

The snowplows left some

snow across the street...

- and I dug a hole into it.

- Max, go play with your friends.

You, go that way!

You, go that way!

No, don't talk to me like that!

You're just a fence!

You can go play

with your own fence friends.

Now move out!

Hey, Claire, what's up? Are you ready?

- Hey, guys!

...and chose him, okay?

- Yeah!

Claire, is that your brother?

Get him!

He's so dead!

Max, go away!

I got him!

Come on! Come on!

Get him!

You okay?

Come on, guys, let's go!

Hey, I'm home.

What's wrong?

Claire and her stupid friends

smashed my igloo.

She didn't do anything about it.

I'm sorry, honey.

I would have done something about it.

Max, what have you done?

I took my lucky break

and I broke it in two,

Put on my worried shoes,

No, I don't want to bother you.

Just... just quickly...

Can you tell me excatly what Mr. Lasseter

didn't like about the report?

Wha... What am I supposed to do?

No, I'm just tired.

And I'd a rough day here and...

I... I cannot afford to lose this.

I know. I know it.

But I better get started because

I'd like to turn it in the morning.

No, I hear you. I hear you.

And this will be the last time,

I promise, okay?

Thanks.

My shoes took me down a crooked path

Hey.

- Hi.

I could use a story.

Sure.

There were some buildings.

There are these really tall buildings.

And they could walk.

Then there were some vampires.

And one of the vampires bit

the tallest building.

And his fangs broke off.

Then all his other teeth fell out.

Then he started crying.

And then all the other vampires...

...said...

"Why are you crying?

"Aren't those just your baby teeth?"

And...

He said,

"No, those are my grown up teeth. "

And...

...the vampires knew that

he couldn't be a vampire anymore.

So they left him.

The end.

And the sun is the center of

our solar system.

It's the reason that

all the planets are here.

It, uh, it's warmth gives the sunlight,

makes our planet livable.

And of course the sun won't

always be here to keep us warm.

It, uh, like all things will die.

And when it does,

first it expands.

Enveloping all the surrounding planets,

including earth...

...before consuming rapidly.

The sun, after all, is just fuel,

burning ferociously.

When it runs of fuel, well,

it'll be gone.

Well, after that the...

...solar system will do dark,

permanently.

I'm sure by that time, the...

...human race will have fallen to

any numbers of calamities.

War, pollution, global warming,

...tsunamies...

...earthquakes, meteors...

Hey, who knows, right?

Mom?

Mom, come up here!

Max, I'm busy.

I rebuit the fort.

You gotta get inside it.

The lava's coming.

oh, and it's a rocket ship,

and it's gonna take off.

Want me to save you a seat?

You're really... nice.

- Cute.

- No.

- Not really.

Hi, sweety.

Claire!?

It's almost dinner,

get your stuff off the table, please.

Mom, what is that?

Pate.

Frozen corn?

What's wrong with real corn?

Frozen corn is real, alright?

And get off the chair, please.

And go tell your sister

to clear her stuff of the table.

Claire, get your stuff off

the dining room table.

Max, don't pull that now.

Max, get off the counter, please.

Get off.

I have a friend here...

you're embarrassing me?

Woman, feed me!

Max, get off.

Get off the counter!

Get off the damn counter, Max!

Now! Now!

- I'll eat you up!

- Get down!

Get over here!

Stop!

What is wrong with you?

This is not acceptable behavior.

You are not acceptable.

No dinner for you, Max.

Go to your room.

- You bit me, kind of hurt!

- Connie, he can't treat you like that.

Max, what is wrong with you?

- You're out of control!

- Not my fault.

Max!

Max!

Max!

I hate you.

Hello?

That's it. Tear them all down.

Tear them down.

Burn down!

We've got a few more

to go over here.

Is anyone going to help me?

We liked them.

They were nice.

I mean, this is a problem.

Don't you see this is a problem?

- I will...

- No, I'll just do it myself.

- Help?

- As usual.

Carol, could I talk to you

for a second?

- No, Douglas, not right now. I'm busy.

- Okay.

Can you hear me from up here?

And I'm the only one

who cares enough to do this.

Or this!

Carol, is this really necessary?

- Ask KW.

- You ask KW if it's necessary.

- She's not here. She left.

I, huh, she left!

She left, exactly!

That's why it's necessary.

- I'll help.

- Okay.

Okay, good.

Come on, come on, here you go.

- Thank you.

- Glad to help.

Who else want to lend a hand?

- What do you say, Judith?

- Should I help too?

- No, you shouldn't help him!

- I just thought it'll make him feel better.

- Yup, good idea, Ira.

Go stand in this hut over here

before it gets wrecked.

I know, I know, I shouldn't.

- Ira, you're not helping.

- Go in the hut.

- I'll stand right over here.

No!

This is crazy!

No, no, it was crazy already.

I'm just eliminating the crazy.

I don't think

the crazy's been eliminated.

Isn't anyone gonna be

on my side anymore?

Yeah, well, I guess not.

Fine.

I'll just be on my own side.

By myself.

Nobody cares.

I'm the only one that cares...

...that we don't stay together.

I'm the only one

who cares about that, so...

- See? I care!

- Carol?

You don't care

and just stand there...

...and whisper to each other

about me,

- like you always do.

- That's true.

But I know what I'm doing.

Ira, what is it?

- I don't know.

Hello.

See? This guy gets it.

Hey, uh, weird little thing...

I like the way you destroy stuff.

Good technique.

There's a spark to your work,

that can't be taught.

Thanks.

Alright, you see that one over there?

You get that one,

I'll get this one.

- See who can do it faster, okay?

- Okay.

Go!

What are you doing?

- I... I...

- I'm just helping.

- My smashing our houses?

- These are your houses?

- Yeah.

- What's wrong with them?

- What do your houses look like?

- I bet his houses are funny looking.

- Look, we worked very hard on these.

Then you, sir, showed up

and started "helping. "

- Im cold.

- Who are you?

Are you one of KW's new friends?

- Are you Bob or Terry?

- I don't even know who that is.

- Looks like a Bob.

- Thing's are getting crazy here.

- This thing's dangerous.

- You're scaring me.

You know what I say,

if you've got a problem?

Eat it!

It's the only way to solve

these types of issues.

The only way.

- Oh, he's probably got those little bird bones.

- Oh, I hate those.

You've those little bird bones that

are gonna cut up my mouth, do you?

- No, I don't have bird bones.

- You better not!

You better not be difficult to eat.

Did you have even think of that?

God, you're selfish!

I hope you don't taste

as selfish as your look.

- Let's eat it.

- Stop!

- Stop!

- Oh, look at him.

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Adam Spiegel, known professionally as Spike Jonze, is an American actor, filmmaker, musician and photographer. His work includes commercials, film, music videos, skateboard videos and television. more…

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