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Budget. $5 million [3] Box office. $22.8 million [4] Captain Fantastic is a 2016 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Matt Ross and starring Viggo Mortensen, Frank Langella, Kathryn Hahn, and Steve Zahn. The story centers on a family forced by circumstances to reintegrate into society after living in isolation for a decade.
Jun 2, 2017 · The Unofficial Reading List: Captain Fantastic and the Dirt Brown Cowboy (1975) by Elton John. The Brothers Karamazov (2002) by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fate of Human Societies (1999) by Jared Diamond. The Fabric of the Cosmos (2004) by Brian Greene, Chapter 12: The World on a String.
Captain Fantastic: Directed by Matt Ross. With Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso. In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Matt Ross
- 2016-07-29
Jun 1, 2017 · Captain Fantastic and the Dirt Brown Cowboy (1975) by Elton John; The Brothers Karamazov (2002) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fate of Human Societies (1999) by Jared Diamond; The Fabric of the Cosmos (2004) by Brian Greene, Chapter 12: "The World on a String" Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (1872) by George Eliot
Jul 1, 2016 · Matt Ross will never forget the time he met Roger Ebert. It was after a screening of his directorial debut, “28 Hotel Rooms,” at the 2012 Sundance film Festival. As a lifelong fan of “Siskel & Ebert,” Ross was starstruck when the legendary critic approached him and said “lovely things” about his movie. “He then told me that ‘if ...
Jul 8, 2016 · Captain Fantastic. “Captain Fantastic,” written and directed by “Silicon Valley”‘s Matt Ross, presents a family who have retreated from the world into the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. They are off the grid. They hunt for food. They are self-reliant. It’s “Swiss Family Robinson,” or that 1970s series of films about “The ...
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