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6.7An 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.
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)
Themes
- based on novel or book
- parent child relationship
- stop motion
- unlikely friendship
- duringcreditsstinger
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Graham Annable Anthony Stacchi
- Screenplay by
- Irena Brignull Adam Pava
- Based on
- Here Be Monsters! , by Alan Snow
- Produced by
- David Bleiman Ichioka Travis Knight
- Starring
- Ben Kingsley Isaac Hempstead Wright Elle Fanning Dee Bradley Baker Steve Blum Toni Collette Jared Harris Nick Frost Richard Ayoade Tracy Morgan Simon Pegg
- Cinematography
- John Ashlee Prat
- Edited by
- Edie Ichioka
- Music by
- Dario Marianelli
- Production company
- Laika
- Distributed by
- Focus Features (North America), Universal Pictures (International)
- Release dates
- August 31, 2014 ( 2014-08-31 ) ( Venice ) September 26, 2014 ( 2014-09-26 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 97 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $60 million
- Box office
- $108 million
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Official website
The Boxtrolls - LAIKA Studios
LAIKA's The Boxtrolls is a magical family adventure about heroes in all shapes and sizes. Starring Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, and Ben Kingsley.
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Encyclopedic overview
The Boxtrolls is a 2014 American stop motion animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 2005 novel Here Be Monsters! Directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi, and produced by Laika, it features the voices of Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, Dee Bradley Baker, Steve Blum, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, Tracy Morgan, and Simon Pegg. Set in the fictional European country of Norvenia, the film tells the story of Eggs, a human boy raised by Boxtrolls, subterranean trolls who wear cardboard boxes, as he attempts to save them from being exterminated.
In 2008, Laika unveiled a slate of projects in development, including an animated feature film adaptation of the Alan Snow novel Here Be Monsters!. While the animation technique was not yet decided upon, Stacchi was set to direct the film. Originally focused on all five species of creatures found in the original book, producer Travis Knight noted that the script ultimately was hollow with all the monsters. As the result, the team ended up focusing on the Boxtrolls as Knight thought there was something that was really compelling about that group of characters. Dario Marianelli composed the film's musical score.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Boxtrolls” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.