![]() He eagerly shows viewers around his family's ranch, regaling us with stories about his emotionally distant cowboy dad ( Callum Keith Rennie), and emotionally unavailable scientist mom (Helena Bonham Carter). But while some of the film's wide emotional turns - from over-caffeinated road movie to magically-realistic melodrama and back again-are not handled with care, the film is more than the sum of its unequal parts.Īt the start of his adventure, T.S Spivet (new-comer Kyle Catlett) is kind of annoying. ![]() It's also ironically about being seen and rarely heard. Spivet" is a messy, warm comedy about grief, family and imagination. ![]() to accept an award from the Smithsonian Institute. The film follows Spivet, a ten year-old inventor from Montana who travels to Washington D.C. Spivet" is too small of a movie to shoulder the weight of any kind of controversy. ![]() This distribution debacle is especially disheartening because "T.S. ![]() The film's current release is minuscule because Jeunet reportedly refused to make cuts that were suggested by notoriously difficult distributor mogul Harvey Weinstein (for more details, check out Sam Adams's Criticwire piece on the film.). Spivet," the latest comedic-fantasy by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet, was quietly dumped into two handfuls of theaters across the country. This weekend, "The Young and Prodigious T.S. ![]()
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