Overview
Director/co-writer Wes Anderson teams with screenwriter Roman Coppola for this period comedy-drama set in the 1960s, in which a pair of young lovers (Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward) from an island off the New England coast head for the hills and throw their small town into a frenzy. Bruce Willis co-stars with Bill Murray, Edward Norton, and Frances McDormand.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Wes Anderson - Director
Bruce Willis
Edward Norton
Bill Murray
Frances McDormand
Jared Gilman
Kara Hayward
L J Foley
Robert Schleinig
L.J. Foley
Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Details
- Format: DVD (Dubbed, Widescreen, Snap Case)
- UPC: 025192115608
- Genre: COMEDIES
- Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
- Release Date: October 2012
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"The paint-tube-pure hues of MOONRISE KINGDOM evoke picture books but also reinforce subtle connections between the characters....MOONRISE KINGDOM has a spontaneity and yearning that lend an easy comic rhythm..." - 05/01/2012 Film Comment
"[B]eguiling and endearing....[The] new film, in radiant live-action, is very much its own creation..." - 05/24/2012 Wall Street Journal
"[A] warm and funny fable about kids on the cusp....Here the writer-director's tendency toward the allegorical casts a magical spell with Anderson finding a near perfect balance between the humanism and the surreal that imprints all of his work..." - 05/25/2012 Los Angeles Times
"MOONRISE KINGDOM breezes along with a beautifully coordinated admixture of droll humor, deadpan and slapstick." - 05/24/2012 New York Times
"[T]he hilarious and heartfelt MOONRISE KINGDOM is a consistent pleasure. By evoking the joys and terrors of childhood, it reminds us how to be alive." - 05/24/2012 Rolling Stone
4 stars out of 5 -- "The director of quirky fare with a rabid cult-like following has made a charming, magical and really funny new work about two unique young kids discovering love...it's the director's most accessible movie yet." - 05/16/2012 Box Office
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The success of MOONRISE KINGDOM depends on its understated gravity....What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that." - 05/30/2012 Chicago Sun-Times
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Literate, melancholy and magical, MOONRISE KINGDOM is quintessential Wes Anderson..." - 05/24/2012 USA Today
"MOONRISE KINGDOM, like all of Anderson’s films, has been made with a master miniature-cabinetmaker’s care and specificity..." - 05/24/2012 Movieline
"Anderson hasn't lost his puckishly charming genius for cinema-as-diorama visuals..." - 06/01/2012 Entertainment Weekly
4 stars out of 5 -- "The watery colours and artful compositions delight in details....The return of a distinct voice in wry, refined and high style." - 06/01/2012 Total Film
"MOONRISE KINGDOM is very funny, possibly Wes Anderson's funniest film since RUSHMORE..." - 07/01/2012 Sight and Sound
"[T]here’s no denying the extravagant pleasures MOONRISE KINGDOM affords as an erudite wish-fulfillment fantasy of empowerment and autonomy." - 06/01/2012 Washington Post