Moonrise Kingdom

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  • Opened May 25, 2012 
  • 1 hr 34 min
  • PG-13 | Sexual Content and Smoking

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says OK for kids 14+. More on child suitability

  • Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two 12-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore -- and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand
  • Director: Wes Anderson
  • Genres: Drama, Romance

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Anderson Rising

by Beautifully Damned

One need only watch the first frame to see that they are headlong into the distinct and obsessively detailed world of a Wes Anderson film. Moonrise displays all the Anderson signatures: deliciously...

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Wes Anderson's best

by alangordonpartridge

It's the coolest-looking, funniest, and most action-packed movie Wes Anderson has ever made. Unlike his others, it's a little light on the oldies soundtrack, but the few songs in this one really...

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Welcome to Wes Andersonville

by willowarmadillo

Quirky and sweet, Moonrise Kingdom has similar art direction and characters as The Royal Tannenbaums. Each frame is rich in visual detail and the awkward characters and stilted dialogue works....

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Amy Biancolli

The formality of Moonrise Kingdom - the orderly structure and dreamlike perfection of it all - is as poetic as any film I've seen this year. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Wesley Morris

Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson's seventh movie, and it's the first since "Rushmore" that works from the opening shot to the final image. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

The usual complaints and caveats about Anderson - he's precious, his characters have no grounding in the real world - can be made about Moonrise Kingdom, but so what? This is his seventh feature, he has been working with a gang of collaborators in front of the camera and behind, and his worldview gets richer, and more revealing, even as the view from his lens gets smaller, closer, almost two-dimensional in its oddball tableaux. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal
| Joe Morgenstern

Beguiling and endearing. Read full review

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Bill Murray as Mr. Bishop, Tilda Swinton as Social Services, Bruce Willis as Captain Sharp, Edward Norton as Scout Master Ward and Frances McDormand as Mrs. Bishop in "Moonrise Kingdom."