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The Boxtrolls
An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.
2014 · Directed by Graham Annable · 97 min · Animation · Comedy · Family · Fantasy · Screenplay in the scene database · 10 frames
Tagline
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes... even rectangles.
Plot
In 1897, in the hilltop city of Cheesebridge in the European country of Norvenia, rumors spread that Boxtrolls, subterranean trolls who wear cardboard boxes, have kidnapped and killed a baby. When the city's pest exterminator, Archibald Snatcher, tells the city's mayor, Lord Charles Portley-Rind, they strike a deal to allow Snatcher membership in the city's cheese-loving council, the White Hats, if Snatcher can exterminate every Boxtroll, despite the fact Snatcher has severe lactose intolerance.
In reality, the Boxtrolls are peaceful and emerge from underground at night to scavenge for discarded items. The Boxtrolls’ leader, Fish, cares for the baby, who he has named Eggs. As Eggs grows up, Snatcher captures several Boxtrolls, leaving him distraught. One night after Lord Portley-Rind's daughter, Winifred, sees Eggs with Fish and another Boxtroll named Shoe, Snatcher captures Fish. Eggs sneaks to the surface to rescue Fish. He emerges in an annual fair to commemorate his disappearance, where he discovers the city's inaccurate portrayal of the Boxtrolls.
He follows Winnie, and she directs him to Snatcher's headquarters, located at an abandoned factory. Eggs rescues Fish, in the process discovering all the captured Boxtrolls are alive and are being made to work on some sort of device, alongside a strange man hanging upside down, but they are caught while trying to escape. Snatcher recognizes Eggs as the baby and reveals that he is forcing the captured Boxtrolls to build him a machine. Winnie, who covertly followed Eggs, overhears this exchange, helps Fish and Eggs escape from Snatcher and takes shelter with them in the Boxtrolls' caves.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Irena Brignull, Adam Pava
- Cinematography: John Ashlee Prat
- Edited by: Edie Ichioka
- Music: Dario Marianelli
- Production design: Paul Lasaine, August Hall, Michel Breton, Tom McClure
- Produced by: Travis Knight, David Bleiman Ichioka
Cast
- Ben Kingsley as Snatcher (voice)
- Isaac Hempstead Wright as Eggs (voice)
- Elle Fanning as Winnie Portley-Rind (voice)
- Dee Bradley Baker as Fish / Wheels / Bucket (voice)
- Toni Collette as Lady Cynthia Portley-Rind (voice)
- Jared Harris as Lord Portley-Rind (voice)
- Nick Frost as Mr. Trout (voice)
- Richard Ayoade as Mr. Pickles (voice)
- Tracy Morgan as Mr. Gristle (voice)
- Simon Pegg as Herbert Trubshaw (voice)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: LAIKA
- Budget: $60,000,000
- Box office: $108,255,770
- Themes: based on novel or book, parent child relationship, stop motion, unlikely friendship, duringcreditsstinger, 3d animation
On this film
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