Where The Wild Things Are
I took my five year old son to see Where The Wild Things Are, the film version of Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book of the same name directed by left-of-center director Spike Jonze ( Adaptation ). I wasn't sure what to expect, to be honest. I had not read any reviews of the film, and had only seen the trailers. Knowing what I knew about Jonze and what I had read in some of the trade magazines, I did know that his vision for the film had the blessing of Sendak himself. I was not prepared for the depth and the beauty of the movie, however. In a wonderful between-the-lines interpretation of the 10 sentences found in Sendak's original story, Jonze delivers a story of hope and imagination that is surprising and joyful. At the outset of the film we meet Max (Max Records). Max is the nine year old main character of both the book and the film. We discover that Max's mom (Catherine Keener- Adaptation, 40 Year-Old Virgin ) is the single par...