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The Spiderwick Chronicles
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
2008 · Directed by Mark Waters · 95 min · Family · Adventure · Fantasy · Action · 30 frames
Tagline
Their world is closer than you think.
Crew
- Screenplay: John Sayles, Karey Kirkpatrick, David Berenbaum
- Cinematography: Caleb Deschanel
- Edited by: Michael Kahn
- Music: James Horner
- Production design: James D. Bissell
- Produced by: Karey Kirkpatrick, Mark Canton, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Larry Franco
Cast
- Freddie Highmore as Jared Grace / Simon Grace
- Sarah Bolger as Mallory Grace
- David Strathairn as Arthur Spiderwick
- Mary-Louise Parker as Helen Grace
- Nick Nolte as Mulgarath
- Joan Plowright as Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick
- Andrew McCarthy as Richard Grace
- Seth Rogen as Hogsqueal (voice)
- Martin Short as Thimbletack (voice)
- Jordy Benattar as Young Lucinda Spiderwick
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Nickelodeon Movies
- Budget: $90,000,000
- Box office: $164,200,000
- Themes: sibling relationship, parent child relationship, elves, fairy, halloween, twin brother, family relationships, single mother, twins, alternative reality
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