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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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sandwiches, you know.

Yeah, I know.

This is unbearable.

It's exactly why I do not do

public transportation.

Garlic?

Garlic. People.

Irritating people.

It's too much information.

Oh!

What?

I just looked

in someone's ear.

I do not want to know

this much information

About people I do not know.

Please get me out of here.

This is our stop.

Hey! Wait!

That was our stop!

Mister, that was our stop!

Mister!

You have to press the yellow bar. What?

He said we had

to push the yellow bar.

I can't go on.

People...

Pick up your bag

or somebody's gonna steal it.

You pick it up.

Great. We're lost.

It'll take us

forever to get back

To where we were supposed

to be,

And we'll have to find

another bus.

Then we won't have

exact change...

Shut up!

You're being overdramatic.

It's just two blocks.

Oh, my gosh,

oh, my gosh, oh, my gosh!

What?

That!

I haven't found a card

in two years.

One down, one to go,

and my collection is complete!

But if we had gotten off

at our stop,

There's no way in the world

we would have found this.

How many other eight of hearts

are wedged in sewer grates,

Waiting for people to miss

their stop

Or take a wrong turn?

And is it a wrong turn

if something so right happens?

What if you can map out

all the possibilities

And go back in time

to try them?

Would the number of

possibilities

Be infinite or finite?

And why

is someone shaking me?

Earth to Jeremy.

Earth to Jeremy.

Hello?

Oh, was I saying that

out loud?

You were having a what-if fest

of epic proportions.

Lizzy,

because we missed our stop,

You found one

of the two playing cards

You're missing

for your collection.

I know.

It's awesome.

It's beyond awesome.

It's jaw-droppingly awesome.

Now, come on, let's go.

We got keys to find.

Pick that up.

Try to look like you belong.

It's a good thing you don't

have to scale up the building

And break in with

a glass cutter.

That was part of plan "f"

I didn't tell you about.

Really.

Excuse me.

Where do you think

you're going?

Um, well...

Our uncle works

on the 14th floor?

All visitors

must sign in.

write Tony castaway.

T- o-n-y c-a-s-t-a...

Yeah, you're good.

Thank you.

Jack here.

run!

Why were you vandalizing

the office?

Well, we had passes

to go up there.

So this is all just

a big misunderstanding.

We have it all on video.

You destroyed

private property.

Add breaking and entering,

And you're working on

a pretty serious rap sheet.

There was no breaking,

and the door was unlocked.

So what's so bad

about entering?

Stop it.

Stop talking.

I asked you not to get me

arrested this Summer.

We're not getting

arrested.

Are we?

Names?

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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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