Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2012)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 177
Fresh: 83 | Rotten: 94
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close has a story worth telling, but it deserves better than the treacly and pretentious treatment director Stephen Daldry gives it.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 46
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 23
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close has a story worth telling, but it deserves better than the treacly and pretentious treatment director Stephen Daldry gives it.
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Movie Info
Oskar (Thomas Horn) is convinced that his father (Tom Hanks), who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother (Sandra Bullock) and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him
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Cast
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Tom Hanks
Thomas Schell -
Thomas Horn
Oskar, Oskar Schell -
Sandra Bullock
Linda Schell -
Zoe Caldwell
Oskar's Grandmother -
Dennis Hearn
Minister -
Paul Klementowicz
Homeless Man -
Julian Tepper
Deli Waiter -
Caleb Reynolds
Schoolboy -
John Goodman
Stan the Doorman -
Max von Sydow
The Renter -
Stephen McKinley Hen...
Walt the Locksmith -
Lorna Pruce
Locksmith Customer -
Viola Davis
Abby Black -
Jeffrey Wright
William Black -
Hazelle Goodman
Hazelle Black -
Bernadette Drayton
Prayer Group Woman -
David Latham
Prayer Group Man -
Marty Krzywonos
Piano Man -
Jim Norton
Old Mr. Black -
Carmen M. Herlihy
Denise Black -
Ryka Dottavio
Maris Black -
Chloe Roe
Stable Girl -
Diane Cheng
Fong Black -
Gregory Korostishevs...
Boris Black -
Adrian Martinez
Hector Black -
Marco Verna
E.S. Black -
Brandon Jeffers
Hamlet -
Martin E. Brens
Dick Black -
Gustavo Brens
Richard Black -
Brooke Bloom
Astrid Black -
Rene Ojeda
Ramos Black -
Madison Arnold
Alan Black -
Henry Morales-Ballet
Deli Customer #1 -
Bryse Gregory
Deli Customer #2 -
William Youmans
Bartender -
Kit Flanagan
Cassidy Black -
Jenson Smith
Aurelia Black -
Ray Iannicelli
Baz Black -
Miguel Jarquin-Morel...
B.G. Black -
Benjamin McCracken
Benjamin Black -
Malachi Weir
Malachi Black -
John Joseph Gallaghe...
Harlan Black -
Sam Kaufman
Minch -
Stephen Kunken
Teacher -
Kim Rideout
Business Woman -
Chloe Elaine Scharf
Business Woman's Dau... -
Eva Kaminsky
Security Guard -
Christopher Hardwick
Estate Sale Organize... -
Kate Levy
Woman at Estate Sale -
Stephanie Kurtzuba
Elaine Black -
Catherine Curtin
Leigh-Anne Black -
Lola Pashalinski
Mona Black -
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Bailey Grey
Girl
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All Critics (178) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (83) | Rotten (94) | DVD (7)
In the end, the movie is about healing and coming to understand that some things can't be explained.
Top CriticLess a film about communication, in the end, than one with its fingers in its ears.
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is the kind of movie you want to punch in the nose.
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.
Stephen Daldry's extremely labored and incredibly crass adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel.
The difficulty is mainly with the story, which despite all the emotion hovering around it, remains thin and uninvolving.
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
This movie is exquisitely made, as Daldry provides a typically classy craft effort.
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.
It's a toss-up as to which is more annoying: the scatter-shot screenplay by Eric Roth or the increasingly grating lead performance by newcomer Thomas Horn.
Oskar expounds to excess, a problem that becomes worse as time drags on and is particularly excruciating during the one-way verbal dialogues with Von Sydow
An irritating 130-minute dripathon.
This adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's 9/11 novel is long, shallow and unconcealed in its efforts to make you cry.
As Oskar opines about his father's casket: "It's just an empty box". The same charge the film's guilty of.
Probably one of the most exploitative and heavy handed films concerning 9/11 I've ever seen.
It is the best of the 9 films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
...there's nothing very special about Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, other than the remarkable Max von Sydow and a preternaturally alert performance by young Thomas Horn
It may try too hard, and it borders on the implausible early and often, but the performance of newcomer Thomas Horn is relentlessly earnest and believable.
...threatens to make the momentous trite.
The mysteries aren't that mysterious and some may have a hard time embracing its abrasive hero.
When it was finally over, I found myself not just disappointed, but a little annoyed. Frankly, it seems more than a little like a cheat.
Es uno de esos raros ejemplos en que el original literario es visualmente mucho más rico que su versión cinematográfica. Lo mejor es su protagonista, el increíble Thomas Horn.
Despite indulgences it works well because there is a really nice message that lies at the heart of the film. When our energies are all directed towards good, amazing things can happen.
What seemed a gimmicky device on the page feels even more awkwardly whimsical and implausible on screen
Feels like a Very Special Episode of a hopelessly lightweight kids TV show, misguidedly attempting to have its say on an issue it can barely comprehend, let alone interpret.
Audience Reviews for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Super Reviewer
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- Oskar: As much as I want him to, my Dad is never coming back, and I thought I couldn't live without him. Now I know I can. I think that would make my Dad proud, which is all I ever wanted.
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- Linda Schell: I can't make the impossible, possible.
- Oskar Schell: I wish it were you. I wish it were you in the building instead of him.
- Linda Schell: So do I.
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- Linda Schell: It doesn't make sense! It's never going to make sense!
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- Walt the Locksmith: You never know what a key is going to fit. There are a million different possibilities. That's what I love about keys. they all open something.
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- Oskar Schell: There are more people alive now than have died in all of human history, but the number of dead people is increasing. One day there isn't going to be any room to bury anyone anymore.
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- Linda Schell: Sweetie, do you think I would ever let you out of my sight?
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Foreign Titles
- Extrem laut und unglaublich nah (DE)
- Extrêmement fort et incroyablement près (FR)
