Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) on Netflix

PG-1320112h 9mAdventure Drama Mystery

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell's father sets him missions around New York City that push him to talk to people. After his father dies, Oskar finds a key inside an envelope marked Black.

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Oskar Schell, nine, lives in New York City with his mother Linda and his father Thomas, who gives him missions that send him out to talk with people. On September 11, 2001, schools close early, and Oskar comes home alone to six messages from his father on the answering machine. A year later he breaks a vase in his father's room and finds a key inside an envelope marked Black. Believing it is a clue from his father, he looks up 472 Blacks in the phone book and plans to visit each one, hiding his outings from his mother.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

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Thomas Horn had no interest in acting. Producers approached him after he won more than $30,000 at the age of twelve on Jeopardy! Kids Week in 2010, and in December that year he was cast as Oskar Schell.
James Gandolfini shot scenes as a love interest for Sandra Bullock's character and was credited on the first poster, but test audiences disliked the pairing and his part was cut from the film.
Jonathan Safran Foer's novel never mentions autism at all. Director Stephen Daldry spent time with specialists in Asperger syndrome and invented his own version of a boy somewhere on the spectrum, defined by his fears and phobias.
Shot on the Arri Alexa, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close was the first Hollywood feature to store its footage in Arri's ArriRaw format for post-production.
The film was written off in the awards race after the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs and the Screen Actors Guild all ignored it, then it turned up with two Oscar nominations, Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor for Max von Sydow.