The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet Page #3

Synopsis: T.S. Spivet lives on a ranch in Montana with his mother who is obsessed with the morphology of beetles, his father (a cowboy born a hundred years too late) and his 14 year-old sister who dreams of becoming Miss America. T.S. is a 10 year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. One day, he receives an unexpected call from the Smithsonian museum telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his discovery of the perpetual motion machine and that he is invited to a reception in his honor where he is expected to give a speech. Without telling anyone, he sets out on a freight train across the U.S.A. to reach Washington DC. There is also Layton, twin brother of T.S., who died in an accident involving a firearm in the family's barn, which no one ever speaks of. T.S. was with him, measuring the scale of the gunshots for an experiment, and he doesn't understand what happened.
Director(s): Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Production: The Weinstein Company
  5 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
78%
PG
Year:
2013
105 min
659 Views


cicindele's exist

Stopped everything?

What do you mean, in a

maternal sense or a scientific one?

What is it that you want

me to start doing again?

Or else I stopped doing?

I don't know.

Your research on the parasitic

scolyte catepiller maybe?

Your findings could've saved

all the pine trees in Montana.

Every other scientific

attempt have failed.

Failed?

Form the ecologists

point of view, maybe.

But from the caterpillar's

point of view,

looks like a win win situation.

Anyway I never liked pine trees.

They're dripy and sticky.

Some things are just meant to die.

How my parents ever fell

for each other is a mystery.

They were like day and night.

The human head lice,

Pediculus humanus capitis

belong to the Anoplura family.

A. N. O. P. L. U. R. A.

T.S., When you drawing the legs,

make sure you observe not just how many

there are but the exact distance between them.

Yeah. The exact distance between them.

Beware of mediocrity,

its the fungus of the mind.

We must constantly fight against it

or creeping to everything we do.

Darn!

Those got away.

A lasso to catch him.

Thanks, Dad.

A fool, by definition is the one who

turns, what is beyond his middle grasp,

will do one big joke.

Then a few days later,

at the end of the hallway,

their hands brushed against each other,

as if they were secretly

exchanging a few seeds.

And then there was Layton,

my dizygotic twin.

That's when two sperm cells

fertilize two seperate eggs.

To each his own embryo

To each his own lucky star

Layton got the height

and I got the neurons.

Mom! Yeah!

Have you ever gotten AIDS?

What?!

Angela Ashworth says AIDS are

bad and you probably have them.

Well! next time, you

just tell Angela Ashworth

Just because she feels insecure

about being a little girl

in a society that puts an anointed amount of

pressure on moment to the baptism physical standard

it doesn't mean that

she had to take out her

misplaced self loathing

on a nicer boy like you.

You may be an inherent part of the problem,

but, certainly doesn't mean you have AIDS.

I'm not sure I can remember all that.

Well, just tell her... she's fat.

OK.

But Layton died last year doing an

accident with the gun in the old bar.

I don't know what went wrong.

I was there too. Measuring gun shots.

No one ever talked about it.

No one.

Not bad.

Except that we have to

go over this a little bit.

Daisy... B +.

Solid work.

Excellent illustrations of

the lake formation process.

T.S... C +.

Report shows undeniable qualities,

but as usual, is way off subject.

What does the formation of lakes

in Montana have anything to do

with the east-west migratory

pattern of Canadian Geese.

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet (French: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ ʒœnɛ]; born 3 September 1953) is a French film director and screenwriter known for the films Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children, Alien Resurrection and Amélie. more…

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