Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
23 November 1971, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
20 June 1952, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
11 December 1937, Columbus, Ohio, USA
24 October 1962, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
10 August 1959, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
10 April 1929, Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
7 February 1936, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
4 January 1938, Dublin, Ireland
August 11, 2014
Dull and lifeless.
February 14, 2012
Less a film about communication, in the end, than one with its fingers in its ears.
January 20, 2012
Stephen Daldry's extremely labored and incredibly crass adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel.
September 25, 2013
Eric Roth's nimble screenplay and composer Alexandre Desplat's delicate score also help solidify "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" as one of the best movies movies of 2011
May 12, 2015
Ghastly.
March 02, 2012
In the end, the movie is about healing and coming to understand that some things can't be explained.
January 20, 2012
...the cure for Oskar's severe case of shell-shock, in Eric Roth's adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, seems artificial and contrived to me.
September 14, 2014
Horn dives into one of the most complex character's I've seen created for a child and shakes loose.
June 28, 2013
Daldry delivers a surprisingly engaging adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's stridently voiced novel about a precocious boy dealing with the death of his father in the terror attacks.
January 20, 2012
If imagining a city where people open their doors (or don't) to a boy with a key and a ton of questions is sentimental ... then it is vitally, beautifully so.
September 08, 2013
This movie is exquisitely made, as Daldry provides a typically classy craft effort.
January 20, 2012
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is the kind of movie you want to punch in the nose.
