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7.312-year-old Conor encounters an ancient tree monster who proceeds to help him cope with his mother's terminal illness and being bullied in school.
Cast
- Lewis MacDougall as Conor
- Sigourney Weaver as Grandma
- Felicity Jones as Mum
- Toby Kebbell as Dad
- Ben Moor as Mr. Clark
- James Melville as Harry
Themes
- dreams
- monster
- based on novel or book
- nightmare
- grandparent grandchild relationship
- truth
- tree
- artist
- bullying
- terminal illness
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Ratings
IMDb
7.4/10
97,272 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
86%
Metacritic
76/100
- Year
- 2016
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Drama, Family
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 39 wins & 57 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- J. A. Bayona
- Screenplay by
- Patrick Ness
- Based on
- A Monster Calls , by Patrick Ness , (from an idea by Siobhan Dowd )
- Produced by
- Belén Atienza
- Starring
- Lewis MacDougall Sigourney Weaver Felicity Jones Toby Kebbell Liam Neeson
- Cinematography
- Óscar Faura
- Edited by
- Bernat Vilaplana Jaume Martí
- Music by
- Fernando Velázquez
- Production companies
- Participant Media River Road Entertainment Apaches Entertainment Telecinco Cinema Peliculas La Trini
- Distributed by
- Universal Pictures (Spain) Entertainment One Films (United Kingdom and Australia) Focus Features (United States) Lionsgate (International)
- Release dates
- September 10, 2016 ( 2016-09-10 ) ( TIFF ) October 7, 2016 ( 2016-10-07 ) (Spain) January 1, 2017 ( 2017-01-01 ) (United Kingdom)
- Running time
- 108 minutes
- Countries
- Spain United Kingdom United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $43 million
- Box office
- $47.3 million
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Encyclopedic overview
A Monster Calls is a 2016 dark fantasy drama film directed by J. A. Bayona and starring Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell, and Liam Neeson. Featuring a screenplay adapted by Patrick Ness from his own 2011 novel of the same name, the film follows a boy grappling with his mother's terminal illness who is visited and told stories by a giant anthropomorphic yew tree.
The film rights to Ness' novel were acquired by Focus Features in March 2014, after which he was hired as screenwriter and Bayona signed on as director. Jones was cast that April, Fanny joined the film in May, and the rest of the main roles were cast by September. Principal photography began on 30 September, with filming taking place primarily in West Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Lancashire in England, as well as in Bayona's native Spain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “A Monster Calls” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.