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From director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) comes FANTASTIC MR. FOX, based on the book by Roald Dahl. Featuring the voices of George Clooney...
- 3 min
- 8.9M
- SearchlightPictures
Fantastic Mr. Fox is a delightfully funny feast for the eyes with multi-generational appeal ... Release Date (Theaters) Nov 25, 2009, Wide. Release Date (Streaming) Mar 1, 2013.
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- Wes Anderson
- PG
- Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
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Given that the screenplay was co-written by ‘Marriage Story’auteur Noah Baumbachand Anderson (no stranger to stories of familial dysfunction — ‘The Royal Tenenbaums,’ ‘The Darjeeling Limited,’etc.), ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ is a movie deeply concerned with one of the unavoidable elements of Thanksgiving itself: family. Mr. Fox’s (voiced by George Cloone...
Thanksgiving, when it’s all said and done, is about one thing – food. The movie’s antagonistic trio of dastardly mega-farmers Boggis (chicken), Bunce (duck and goose), and Bean (turkey and apple), who rule over Mr. Fox’s valley, all specialize in a unique strain of cash crop or signature brand of livestock. In a hilariously efficient exposition sce...
Wes’ instinctual sense of film grammar and his inimitable visual style made him a natural fit for the medium of stop motion since it requires so much deliberate, pre-determined arrangement and fastidious attention to detail. One can picture Anderson staring at the myriad of expertly-crafted miniatures for his film, and obsessing over the precise sy...
In a devastating scene between Mr. and Mrs. Fox that takes place at the feet of a cascading underground waterfall (possibly the film’s single most jaw-dropping visual embellishment), the couple engages in a long overdue reckoning about the fundamental flaws of their union, and Mr. Fox’s inability to not let his roguish ego drive him to make decisio...
Fantastic Mr. Fox premiered as the opening film of the 53rd edition of the London Film Festival on October 14, 2009, and was released in the United States on November 13, to critical acclaim, with praise for its humor, stop-motion animation and Anderson's direction. However, it underperformed at the box office, grossing $46.2 million against a $40 million budget.
Feb 10, 2014 · It may take one by surprise, but this month will feature the first-ever animated release for The Criterion Collection. What should arrive as less of a shock is that it is Wes Anderson ‘s Fantastic Mr. Fox, coming from a helmer whose is well known in the library. To gear up for the February 18th release date, they’ve unveiled a new trailer ...
Nov 23, 2022 · However, another animated film deserves to be in that same conversation, as it touches on elements that make the season special. 2009's The Fantastic Mr. Fox, the George Clooney-led adaptation of the Roald Dahl novel, is a wonderfully sweet film. While it may not be codified as a Thanksgiving film in the text of the movie, the thematic elements of the movie make it a perfect film for families.
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