Starring: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Max Von Sydow and Thomas Horn
Director: Stephen Daldry
When I first saw the trailer for this movie, I knew that I'd need a box of tissues because I teared up even in the trailer! They played a U2 song over the top of the trailer and it just worked for some reason and peaked my interest as all good movie trailers should.
When we first meet Oskar, we know there is something very special and different about him. The relationship he has with his father, Thomas Schell (Tom Hanks), is also very special. Oskar and his father are dreamers and thinkers and Thomas often likes to send his borderline aspergers son on spectacular quests and adventures around New York City, chasing answers to questions that really don't make sense to anyone other than the father and son team.
When we first meet Oskar, we know there is something very special and different about him. The relationship he has with his father, Thomas Schell (Tom Hanks), is also very special. Oskar and his father are dreamers and thinkers and Thomas often likes to send his borderline aspergers son on spectacular quests and adventures around New York City, chasing answers to questions that really don't make sense to anyone other than the father and son team.
Sadly, fate intervenes in Oskars life and the terrorist attack on New York City in September 2001 takes the life of his father among hundreds of others. Oskar is devastated and doesn't know how to grieve. He has lost the one person that truly understands him and challenges the way he see's the world. Oskar begins lying to his mother, played by the very dowdy looking Sandra Bullock, and starts to look for answers.
His adventures lead him on a chase around New York City to find someone that knows something about his father and the final mystery that his father left him.
This is a heart wrenching film with incredible performances by Max Von Sydow and the young Thomas Horn, who shows unbelievable skill beyond his years in the role of Oskar Schell. This wonderful young man could teach many so called accomplished hollywood actors a thing or two(*cough cough* Channing Tatum, Mark Walberg).
There is no message attached to this movie, it's not about 9/11 in any way, shape, or form, it's just the story of a troubled young boy whose world is turned upside down by the death of his father.
Amazing.
His adventures lead him on a chase around New York City to find someone that knows something about his father and the final mystery that his father left him.
This is a heart wrenching film with incredible performances by Max Von Sydow and the young Thomas Horn, who shows unbelievable skill beyond his years in the role of Oskar Schell. This wonderful young man could teach many so called accomplished hollywood actors a thing or two(*cough cough* Channing Tatum, Mark Walberg).
There is no message attached to this movie, it's not about 9/11 in any way, shape, or form, it's just the story of a troubled young boy whose world is turned upside down by the death of his father.
Amazing.
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