Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) on Netflix
PG-1320162h 7mAdventureDramaFamily
Jake Portman grew up on his grandfather's tales of a Welsh home for children with strange powers. After Abe dies, Jake goes to Cairnholm and finds the children in 1943.
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Plot summary
Jake Portman leads an ordinary life in Florida until the night he finds his grandfather Abe dying near his ransacked house, after years of stories about monsters and a Welsh home for children with unusual abilities. His therapist urges him to travel to Cairnholm, the island off Wales where Abe grew up. Jake and his father Frank find only ruins until Jake meets the children themselves: Emma, who manipulates air and wears lead shoes so she will not float away; Olive, who can make fire; Hugh, who has bees living inside him; Millard, the invisible boy; and Enoch, who brings the dead briefly back to life. Miss Peregrine, their headmistress, explains that they live inside a time loop set on the day in 1943 when German bombers struck the house, keeping them hidden from the outside world.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- On July 28, 2014, Eva Green was set to play Miss Peregrine in the film; Mischa Barton, Lucy Hale and Alison Sudol had also been considered for the role.
- Director Tim Burton makes a cameo appearance in the film as a visitor at the fun fair in Blackpool who gets a skeleton thrown at him by a Hollow.
- The opening was on par with Dark Shadows' $29.7 million in 2012, Burton's last big budgeted film, and Variety called it "a mediocre start" given the film's $110 million budget.
- It is the second Tim Burton film to be shot in the Tampa Bay area, the first being Edward Scissorhands, in 1990.
