“Discover the extravagant journey.”
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
6.9
896 votes·2013
·1h 45m
·MovieAdventureDramaFamily
Overview
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Commercial Verdict
Disaster
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Significant financial loss
Keywords
freight trainstowawaychild prodigytwin brothertrainboy geniusriding the railrunaway childbrother killing brothersmithsoniancartographerperpetual motion machine
Cast
Kyle Catlett
T.S. Spivet
Helena Bonham Carter
Dr. Clair
Judy Davis
G.H. Jibsen
Callum Keith Rennie
Father
Niamh Wilson
Gracie
Jakob Davies
Layton
Rick Mercer
Roy
Robert Maillet
Giant Hobo
Dominique Pinon
Two Clouds
Julian Richings
Ricky
Richard Jutras
Lecturer
Mairtin O'Carrigan
Lecturer
Michel Perron
The vigilant
Dawn Ford
Marge
Harry Standjofski
Policeman
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