Trailer
Plot summary
Arthur Spiderwick records the fairies he meets in a field guide and hides the book away out of fear of Mulgarath, a shapeshifting ogre who wants its secrets. Eight decades on, Helen Grace, recently divorced, inherits the Spiderwick Estate and moves there with her children, thirteen-year-old Mallory and nine-year-old twins Jared and Simon. Jared resents the move and wants to return to his father in New York. Through a hidden dumbwaiter he finds Arthur's study and the field guide, but his family does not believe his account of the book or of magical creatures. A brownie named Thimbletack, who guards the book, gives Jared a stone with a hole in it that lets him see the fairies, and tells him of the mushroom circle that protects the house.
Cast
- Lise Durocher-Viensas Mrs. Spiderwick
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Sarah Bolger said the shoot ran four to five months and left her in front of the blue screen almost around the clock, kicking and slicing at things that were nowhere near her; her fencing scenes took five weeks of intense training, nearly three hours a day with the Canadian Olympic fencing coach.
