Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

Name: Where the Wild Things Are
Released: 2009
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Catherine O'Hara

• Movies, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy

• 101 min

6.5

There's one in all of us.

Directed by: Spike Jonze
Casting: Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker, Chris Cooper, Paul Dano, Spike Jonze, Pepita Emmerichs, Mark Ruffalo, Max Pfeifer, Madeleine Greaves, Joshua Jay, Ryan Corr, Steve Mouzakis, Michael Berry Jr., Vincent Crowley, Sonny Gerasimowicz, Nick Farnell, Sam Longley, Angus Sampson, Mark McCracken, John Leary, Alice Parkinson, Garon Michael, James Epinfaniou, Joshua Evans, Tess Grimshaw Lloyd, Lucas Haynes, Nathan Veal, Skyler Brigmann, Kalia Prescott
Countries: Germany, United States of America
Premiere: 2009-10-16
Status: Released

Tags: creature, based on children's book, children's book, lying, overflowing with imagination, children's perspectives, maurice sendak

Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.