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The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet (2013)

★ 7.0PG105 minDirector: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

2013 adventure-drama film

The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet is a 2013 adventure drama film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and co-written with Guillaume Laurant, an adaptation of the 2009 book The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet written by Reif Larsen. The film stars Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Callum Keith Rennie, and Kyle Catlett.

10-year-old budding scientist T.S. Spivet secretly crosses the country, from his family's Montana ranch where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother, aboard a freight train to receive an award from the Smithsonian Institution in D.C..

The film failed to recover its costs, so is considered a box office bomb.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet about?
The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet (2013) — 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
Is The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet scary?
Content rating: PG. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.