Stories are wild creatures.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell, Ben Moor, James Melville, Oliver Steer |
| Director |
J.A. Bayona |
| Screenplay | Patrick Ness, Siobhan Dowd |
| Music | Fernando Velázquez |
| Cinematography | Oscar Faura |
| Editing | Jaume Marti, Bernat Vilaplana |
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| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2016 |
| Produced by | Apaches Entertainment, La Trini, A Monster Calls, Participant Media, River Road Entertainment |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | None |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Infrequent, low impact |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | |
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| PG: Parental Guidance Suggested | Rated PG-13 for thematic content and some scary images |
| Runtime | 108 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
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| Suggested age limit 12 + |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Stephanie Merry  Nuanced approach saves this monster of a sob-story. | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Herman Lategan Seun se spel in 'A Monster Calls' is asemrowend. | 10 | |
| Cape Times Unknown | 15 |  |
| ScreenIt Jim Judy It’s in my top 10 of the year. | 15 | |
| Metacritic.com 40 critics | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 192 critics | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer A Monster Calls deftly balances dark themes and fantastical elements to deliver an engrossing and uncommonly moving entry in the crowded coming-of-age genre. | 17 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 15 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Heartrending adaptation explores the enormity of grief. | 15 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 37 users | 16 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 17347 users | 15 | |
| Internet 7999 Netizens | 16 | |
Average .. 73% | 15 | |