A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
freight train
stowaway
child prodigy
twin brother
train
boy genius
riding the rail
runaway child
brother killing brother
smithsonian
cartographer
perpetual motion machine
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Letterboxd
3.4 / 5
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Cast
Kyle Catlett
T.S. Spivet
Helena Bonham Carter
Dr. Clair
Judy Davis
G.H. Jibsen
Callum Keith Rennie
Father
Niamh Wilson
Gracie
Jakob Davies
Layton
Rick Mercer
Roy
Robert Maillet
Giant Hobo
Dominique Pinon
Two Clouds
Julian Richings
Ricky
Richard Jutras
Lecturer
Mairtin O'Carrigan
Lecturer
Crew
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Director
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer
Guillaume Laurant
Screenplay
Hervé Schneid
Editor
Thomas Hardmeier
Director of Photography
Francis Boespflug
Executive Producer
Frédéric Brillion
Producer
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Producer
Gilles Legrand
Producer
Sidonie Dumas
Executive Producer
Brian Oliver
Executive Producer
Aline Bonetto
Production Design
Popular Reviews
58 reviews
milez
8.0★ · 10/14/25
if wes anderson made young sheldon
if wes anderson made young sheldon
Sonam Dechen
9.0★ · 09/01/25
Each time he imagined his brother with him on his trip made me tear up.
Each time he imagined his brother with him on his trip made me tear up.
mew
10.0★ · 03/03/25
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Allen Teare
this is the type of movie you watch when you have a substitute in English class
this is the type of movie you watch when you have a substitute in English class
RACLETTE
9.0★ · 01/23/24
Un mixte entre Asteroid City et Little Miss Sunshine c'était vraiment trop bien ce film
Un mixte entre Asteroid City et Little Miss Sunshine c'était vraiment trop bien ce film
