
T.S. Spivet lives on a ranch in Montana with his mother who is obsessed with the morphology of beetles, his father (a cowboy born a hundred years too late) and his 14 year-old sister who dreams of becoming Miss America. T.S. is a 10 year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. One day, he receives an unexpected call from the Smithsonian museum telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his discovery of the perpetual... (Full plot summary below)
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T.S. Spivet lives on a ranch in Montana with his mother who is obsessed with the morphology of beetles, his father (a cowboy born a hundred years too late) and his 14 year-old sister who dreams of becoming Miss America. T.S. is a 10 year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. One day, he receives an unexpected call from the Smithsonian museum telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his discovery of the perpetual motion machine and that he is invited to a reception in his honor where he is expected to give a speech. Without telling anyone, he sets out on a freight train across the U.S.A. to reach Washington DC. There is also Layton, twin brother of T.S., who died in an accident involving a firearm in the family's barn, which no one ever speaks of. T.S. was with him, measuring the scale of the gunshots for an experiment, and he doesn't understand what happened.
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| The Robot's VoiceLuke Y. ThompsonIt should have been Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Hugo, a 3-D art film to impress critics and families during holiday/awards season. Instead, it may be his Idiocracy. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekA typical Jeunet film, which means that it's amazingly accomplished from a technical point of view but synthetic and emotionally remote...a truly personal effort that has to be taken on its own terms or not at all. |
| Contactmusic.comRich ClineAs he did in Amelie, French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet tells a simple fable with witty visuals, colourful characters and a warm heart. |
| Critical WomenPrairie MillerWithin the colorful layers of humor and heartbreak summoned in equal measure by Jeunet's magical powers of visual storytelling, are stinging perceptions pertaining to difference intolerance and oppressive cultural tendencies playing out in this country. |
| ScotsmanSiobhan SynnotSpivet has the best use of 3D since Martin Scorsese's pop-up moviebook Hugo, and uses many of the same team to make its images of snakes and freight trains pop. |
| AV ClubJesse HassengerWhile it doesn’t operate at its full potential, Spivet nonetheless offers a bracing risk: a kid adventure with danger alongside its whimsy and sadness alongside its reassurances. |
| At the Movies (Australia)David StrattonThis is a very beautiful film, but somehow, despite its abundant qualities, it doesn't soar. |
| The Stranger (Seattle, WA)Charles MudedeThe result of this unforgiving artificializing of a culture that's pretty artificial to begin with is what the future will recognize as one of Jeunet's masterpieces. |
| Daily Express (UK)Allan HunterA sentimental, visually stunning adaptation of the Reif Larsen novel. |
| Urban CinefileLouise KellerAudiences of all ages will warm to this delightful tale that is all at once a road movie, a coming of age story and one about a young boy longing for his father's approval |