Where the Wild Things Are
(2009)
Director:
Spike Jonze
Writer:
Dave Eggers, Spike Jonze, Maurice Sendak
Cast:
Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.