A 10-year-old scientist secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother, and travels across the country aboard a freight train to rec... Read allA 10-year-old scientist secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother, and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institution.A 10-year-old scientist secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother, and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institution.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 6 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe first feature film to use the Arri Alexa M camera.
- GoofsOn T.S's journey, the train stops in North Platte, Nebraska. The mistake was the city title on the screen was spelled North Plate, Nebraska.
- Quotes
T.S. Spivet: The amazing thing about water drops is that they always take the path of least resistance. For humans it's exactly the opposite.
- Alternate versionsUK versions are dubbed to replace a use of the word "motherfucker" with "melon farmer" for a 12A rating.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Est-ce que ça marche?: Episode #1.10 (2013)
- SoundtracksTchang Fou
Written by Eric Mallet and Dominique Guiot
The adventure starts off promisingly enough. T.S.Spivet (Kyle Catlett) lives on a farm in the 'Big Sky Country' of Montana with his amateur entomologist mother (Helena Bonham Carter), his cowboy father (Callum Keith Rennie) and elder sister (Niamh Wilson). A phone call to the ranch from the prestigious Smithsonian Institute in Washington informs the young Spivet that he has won a prize for one of his inventions. Since the death of his twin brother in a shooting accident, Spivet's mother and father have sidelined the surviving son. Feeling neglected and un-loved, T.S. decides to travel on his own to Washington to accept his prize. The journey takes him across America on a freight train and into a series of encounters with a gallery of colourful characters.
While the scenes in Montana are a triumph to Jeunet's bold, sweeping breadth of vision, once Spivet hops on the train, the action, conversely begins to falter. The characters he meets could have come straight from a cartoon strip – ageing sailor Two Clouds (Dominique Pinon) is a dead ringer for Popeye – and they add little or nothing to the narrative or the tone of the film.
As the lead actor, Catlett carries a lot of responsibility for one so young. No one can deny he is as cute as a button – with his oversized trousers and constant puzzled look – but he lacks the range of emotions needed to create real empathy. This may explain why a film about grief remains oddly unmoving until a a scene towards the film's finale which seems unashamedly designed to pull the heart strings. This latest Jeunet is undoubtedly a glorious visual treat, but it lacks the magic and mystery of 'Amélie' his most successful film to date. I
- prescottjudith
- Oct 21, 2013
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Неймовірна подорож містера Співета
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $33,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $173,564
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $33,658
- Aug 2, 2015
- Gross worldwide
- $9,494,789
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1