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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) 6.9
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6.9/10 from 68,098 users
Metascore: 46/100
Reviews: 316 user | 272 critic | 41 from Metacritic.com A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Director:Stephen Daldry |
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Cast
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| Thomas Horn | ... | ||
| Sandra Bullock | ... | ||
| Zoe Caldwell | ... | ||
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Dennis Hearn | ... | |
| Paul Klementowicz | ... | ||
| Julian Tepper | ... | ||
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Caleb Reynolds | ... | |
| John Goodman | ... | ||
| Max von Sydow | ... | ||
| Stephen Henderson | ... |
Walt the Locksmith
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| Lorna Pruce | ... |
Locksmith Customer
(as Lorna Guity Pruce)
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| Viola Davis | ... | ||
| Jeffrey Wright | ... | ||
| Hazelle Goodman | ... | ||
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A troubled young boy, Oskar, is trying to cope with the loss of his father. Oskar starts lashing out at his mother and the world. Until a year later, he discovers a mysterious key in his father's belongings and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock, just as he used to when his father was alive. On this journey he is bound to meet a lot of people and learn a lot about himself and his family, but will he ever find the lock? Written by Koro
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
20 January 2012 (Canada) See more »Also Known As:
Tan fuerte y tan cerca See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$110,775 (USA) (30 December 2011)Gross:
$31,836,745 (USA) (23 March 2012)Company Credits
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Oskar Schell: There are more people alive now than have died in all of human history, but the number of dead people is increasing. One day, there isn't going to be any room to bury anyone anymore. So, what about skyscrapers for dead people, that are built down. They could be underneath the skyscrapers for living people, that are built up. We could bury people 100 floors down. And a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.
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Written by Willie J. Woods
Performed by Little Freddie King
Courtesy of Orleans Records
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Stephen Daldry and producer Scott Rudin worked on this adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel for five years. See more »Goofs
A Megabus drives by in a scene where Oskar is walking through Manhattan. Megabus didn't start service in NYC until May of 2008. (The bus is red at 1:03:19, blue at 1:03:32.) See more »Quotes
[first lines]Oskar Schell: There are more people alive now than have died in all of human history, but the number of dead people is increasing. One day, there isn't going to be any room to bury anyone anymore. So, what about skyscrapers for dead people, that are built down. They could be underneath the skyscrapers for living people, that are built up. We could bury people 100 floors down. And a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.
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Cleo's BackWritten by Willie J. Woods
Performed by Little Freddie King
Courtesy of Orleans Records
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At thirty minutes in I was wondering who would be the first to leave the small audience in the cinema. By the end of this movie I, and the few others, simply sat with our metaphorical mouths agape at the impact of what we had just seen. A slow, meandering, and with hindsight, entirely necessary beginning gives way to a riveting and gripping story. A story which you would expect to bring you to tears (and it will for some) but is ultimately about triumph. It may appear to be a story about 9/11 and such was the enormity of that event that it would be easy to suggest that this is just an excellently acted and well-crafted story about that day. That would be to undersell this movie. 9/11 is just the vehicle which carries the message of how our everyday, minor irritations with other people and our general lives are simply unimportant in comparison to the reality that most people are just trying to do their best in our jobs, our marriages and in our relationships. We are imperfect and the enormity of 9/11 hammered that home. These couple of hours repeats the exercise. But this movie does more than use the day's story in such a simplistic way. Rather, it weaves the tragedy into the story of lives that are already living with sadness and it allows those participants to view their personal tragedies in the context of the much bigger one. To use the "device" of a compulsive child (what a performance!)forces us voyeurs to focus more clearly on the everyday minutiae which both he and we come to see as insignificant. A wonderful experience...this movie will stay with me for the rest of my days.