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Synopsis: A month before his 13th birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a mysterious wooden box in the mail with the words "The Meaning of Life-for Jeremy Fink to open on his 13th birthday." It has four locks, but the keys are lost. In order to find out what secrets lie within the box it's up to Jeremy and his best friend Lizzy to use their imaginations to search high and low throughout Manhattan for clues. Their adventure brings them from flea markets to corporate office buildings to science museums meeting wacky and interesting characters along the way. Each encounter unlocks a clue to bring them closer to finding out the contents of the box and ultimately discovering the greatest secret of them all! Based on the beloved book by Wendy Mass.
Genre: Family
Director(s): Tamar Halpern
Production: Phase 4 Films
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IMDB:
6.0
PG
Year:
2011
91 min
Website
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And there were keys.

You're gonna have to leave

the 2-block radius

Of our building someday,

Jeremy.

Well, what's plan "f"?

Maybe we can just skippy

and go straight to "f".

Let's hope you'll never

have to know.

I've never seen anything

like it in all my years.

Well, do you have any keys

that might fit?

You don't have the keys?

Well,

that's a darn shame.

This here

is no ordinary box.

It has an internal

locking mechanism with pins

And... and tumblers.

And each hole needs

a different type of key,

And unfortunately,

there is a...

An internal latch that prevents

the box from being pried open.

See here?

There's a layer of metal

under the wood.

Now in order

to get through that,

You can't without destroying

what's inside.

Well, I guess plan "g"

is out.

There is a plan "g"?

Chainsaw.

That would not be

a good idea.

You don't wanna destroy

the meaning of life,

Now do you?

Off to the flea market

to find some keys.

We just have to keep

our eyes peeled.

Nothing to fear, fink.

Nothing at all.

Am I talking

to myself here?

I'm not proud of the fact

that I've never taken

Public transportation

without an adult, but...

But what?!

You live

in new freaking York!

I know, it's just that

everything I need

Is usually within

my walking distance-ish.

Well, not today!

Whoa, Lizzy, wait!

Look at all this stuff.

Most of it doesn't even seem

to have a purpose.

Please, half the stuff in your

house doesn't have a purpose.

Word.

Your dad used to say

One man's trash

is another man's treasure.

Whenever he said that,

you said,

"one man's trash

is another man's trash. "

Did I say that?

Wow.

I must have been a pain

when I was younger.

Hey, Lizzy!

Look.

Eight of hearts.

Isn't this one of the ones

you were missing?

Well, yeah, it is,

thank you very much.

But now you've ruined it.

You know the rules.

I have to find it,

and I can't pay for it.

It's okay to pay for things

in a collection.

Not in mine.

Keys!

You break it,

you buy it.

But how

could we break keys?

You kids have a way

of breaking everything.

Well, we have some locks,

And we just wanna see

if the keys fit...

If you want to try it,

you pay for it.

But couldn't we just...

no.

Not even to just...

not even to just.

Ru-u-u-u-u-n!

Run! Run!

Breaking and entering,

that's plan "f"?

Well, the keys are somewhere

in that lawyer's office.

It says so in the letter.

They could be under the carpet

or in a drawer or something.

Where's the flashlight?

It's illegal.

You'll get us arrested.

Do you wanna spend

the rest of your life

Searching through

an endless supply of keys

Or do you wanna go

to the source?

The law office

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Tamar Halpern

Tamar Halpern is a writer and director living in Los Angeles. She holds an M.F.A. degree from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. more…

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