{5\/5} “‘Does it concern you that your daughter’s just run away from home?’ ‘That’s a loaded question.'”<\/p>\n
It’s 1965. Sam and Suzy are 12-year-olds who both have trouble making friends, but they’ve formed a bond with each other. After writing back and forth a few times they decide to run away together. Sam is a member of the khaki scouts and therefore knows a fair amount about how to survive in the wilderness. But once they’re discovered missing a search effort is mounted — how long can they elude the searchers, given that they’re on a fairly small island?<\/p>\n
Moonrise Kingdom<\/strong> was released in 2012.<\/p>\n It’s a brilliant movie with an amazing cast. If you haven’t seen it yet, put it at the top of your list.<\/p>\n I found it very funny, and I was cheering for a happy outcome for the two kids.<\/p>\n The movie features music by Benjamin Britten, as well as new whimsical music by Alexandre Desplat (The Ghost Writer<\/strong><\/a>). You’ll want to watch to the end of the credits — or least listen to it.<\/p>\n Jared Gilman plays Sam and Kara Hayward plays Suzy — these were their first movie roles.<\/p>\n Edward Norton (The Illusionist<\/strong>) plays Sam’s scout master and Bruce Willis (Looper<\/strong><\/a>) plays the police chief. Bill Murray (Quick Change<\/strong><\/a>) and Frances McDormand (Burn After Reading<\/strong>) play Suzy’s parents. Tilda Swinton (Possible Worlds<\/strong>) plays Social Services and Jason Schwartzman (The Darjeeling Limited<\/strong>) plays somebody’s cousin.\u00a0Bob Balaban (Gosford Park<\/strong><\/a>) plays a narrator of sorts.<\/p>\n The movie was directed by Wes Anderson. His movies are all similarly quirky — my favourites are\u00a0The Royal Tenenbaums<\/strong>, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou<\/strong>, and Fantastic Mr. Fox<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {5\/5} “‘Does it concern you that your daughter’s just run away from home?’ ‘That’s a loaded question.’” It’s 1965. Sam and Suzy are 12-year-olds who both have trouble making friends, but they’ve formed a bond with each other. After writing back and forth a few times they decide to run away together. Sam is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,6,5],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}