Moonrise Kingdom (2012) - A 1960's island youth romance present

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Partly painted poster of the kids in their nature-adventure in Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom

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A former scout flees from home with a same-aged girl on their birth island, where they are quickly searched for by worried parents, authorities and an evil child care woman. - But a fierce storm is also on its way!

Moonrise Kingdom is a mighty enjoyable, classically inventive Wes Anderson (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)) yarn, set in a charming island community.
I love the Bob Balaban (Ghost World (2001)) character and all of his odd, small introductions throughout. The escaping youths, played by debuting actors Jared Gilman (Elsa & Fred (2014)) and Kara Hayward (Quitters (2014)), are sweet, and, as usual, Anderson here has an ensemble cast at his hands that is impressive and very good: Edward Norton (American History X (1998)), Harvey Keitel (Smoke (1995)), Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)), Bruce Willis (Die Hard (1988)), Frances McDormand (Fargo (1996)) and Bill Murray (Groundhog Day (1993)).
The film also features lovely music, - quite a few old Hank Williams songs, - but one notices its wild pace as hasty a few times, where it seems to inhibit any chance of deeper emotional involvement in the characters and story, which I think is a shame.
On the whole though, Moonrise Kingdom is still an incredible and very good film.

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Notice especially on this delightful character photo for Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom Bob Balaban on the left in the red coat

Watch the stylish, colorful, eye-candy-studded trailer here

Cost: 16 mil. $
Box office: 68.2 mil. $
= Big hit
[Moonrise Kingdom opened Cannes 2012, where it was shown in competition, and it went on to have an excellent American run over the following Summer, where its very American story may have struck a chord that not all of Anderson's pictures have done in the past. It was later Oscar-nominated for Best Original Screenplay (Anderson and Roman Coppola (The Darjeeling Limited (2007)), but lost to Quentin Tarantino and his Django Unchained (2012)).]

What do you think of Moonrise Kingdom?
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