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IMDb rating 7
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Critic rating 5.7

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Critic Simon Abrams
rated 5

T.S. Spivet is a messy, warm comedy about grief, family and imagination. It's also ironically about being seen and rarely heard.

Read full review at Roger Ebert
Critic Ian Nathan
rated 6

...the hero’s brainwaves and daydreams digitally materialise as quirky marginalia afloat in the skilfully administered 3D. The movie tick-tocks like a scientific instrument.

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Critic Johan Croneman
rated 6

…en riktigt bra historia…

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A 10-year-old boy, T.S. Spivet, living on a ranch in Montana with his eccentric family, receives a prestigious award from the Smithsonian Institution for his invention of a perpetual motion machine. Despite his family's ignorance of his talent, T.S. decides to travel alone to Washington D.C. by freight train to receive the award and deliver a speech, unaware that the museum director believes he is an adult. Along the way, he meets a hobo who shares a whimsical story and faces challenges as he tries to reach his destination while keeping his true identity hidden from the public and railway staff who become suspicious of him as they realize that the prize-winner is just a child.

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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet was released in theaters on October 26, 2014.