Where the Wild Things Are (2009) on Netflix
PG20091h 41mAdventureDramaFamily
Max, an eight-year-old with a wild imagination, runs away from home in his wolf costume. He sails to a far island, where beasts called the Wild Things crown him their king.
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- IMDb6.7/10112,651 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes73%
Trailer
Plot summary
Max is an eight-year-old boy with divorced parents. His sister Claire will not step in when her friends crush his snow fort, so he wrecks her bedroom. When his mother Connie has her boyfriend Adrian over for dinner, Max puts on a wolf costume, bites her shoulder and runs away. A small boat at the river carries him to an island where seven monsters, the Wild Things, live. Carol is wrecking their huts because KW has gone. The monsters try to eat Max, and he claims to be a king with magical powers. They crown him their ruler.
Cast
- Pepita Emmerichsas Claire
- Max Pfeiferas Claire's Friend
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In an interview with Newsweek, Sendak said parents who deemed the film's content too disturbing for children should "go to hell", adding that he himself had seen "the most horrendous movies that were unfit for child's eyes. So what? I managed to survive."
- In 2008 test footage was leaked onto the internet, and early fan outcry over the video, along with rumored "scared children" in test audiences, led Warner Bros. to delay the film's release by a year from its original 3 October 2008 date.
- Academy Award-winning make-up effects supervisor Howard Berger turned down offers to work on the film four times: although the book had inspired him as a child to work in special effects, he felt filming it was a "horrible idea".
- Michelle Williams was originally cast as the female Wild Thing KW, only to leave the project after her voice "didn't match the original vision of how the Wild Thing should sound". She was replaced by Lauren Ambrose, and filming continued.
- In 2005, Jonze and Dave Eggers completed a 111-page screenplay for the film, expanding the original thirteen-sentence story of the picture book.
- The director also reshot several scenes and added three new ones, bringing the film's cost up from the original greenlit $75 million to $100 million.
