Fresh
In the end, the movie is about healing and coming to understand that some things can't be explained.
Leah Rozen, TheWrap
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
This is not a story about September 11th, it's a story about every day after.
2011 · 2h 9m · PG-13
Drama
Directed by
Stephen Daldry
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Overview
A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.
Director and cast
- Stephen Daldry Director
- Tom Hanks as Thomas Schell
- Sandra Bullock as Linda Schell
- Thomas Horn as Oskar Schell
- Viola Davis as Abby Black
- John Goodman as Stan the Doorman
- Jeffrey Wright as William Black
- Zoe Caldwell as Oskar's Grandmother
- Max von Sydow as The Renter
- Dennis Hearn as Minister
- Paul Klementowicz as Homeless Man
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
45%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Less a film about communication, in the end, than one with its fingers in its ears.
Ben Walters, Time Out
Rotten
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is the kind of movie you want to punch in the nose.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
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.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Rotten
Stephen Daldry's extremely labored and incredibly crass adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel.
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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