WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

USA, 2009

Genre: Adventure

Director: Spike Jonze

Producer: Tom Hanks, John B. Carls, Gary Goeztman, Maurice Sendak, Vincent Landay

Writer: Spike Jonze, David Egger (screenplay), Maurice Sendak (book)

Cast: Max Records, Catherine Keener

Voices: Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker

Budget: $80M

Plot Summary:

An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world--a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.