The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet Page #6

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
672 Views


Five blank red notebooks

And five blank purple notebooks

One tape measure,

and my set of Gillette pens

Twelve handkerchiefs.

A box of raisins.

Twelve carrot sticks.

Eleven.

A self-defense handbook.

My sparrow skeleton.

binoculars.

My Leatherman.

- Avoid thinking about a scenario

for which I will need a seismoscope

for a woodpecker who would

be pecking beak at the tree.

4

- Pack everything

and finally add my teddy bear Big Jojo.

At 4 o'clock in the morning,

my suitcase was finally ready.

Goodbye, Layton.

I'll be away for a

while to Washington D.C.

I'll bring you back a souvenir.

I'm sorry for what I did.

Dear Spivet Family, I'm gone

for a while to do some work.

Dont worry, I'll be fine.

I do not want to bother you by

telling you about it ahead of time.

Thank you for taking care of me. You're

one of the best families in the world.

Love, T.S.

Diary

Hello, Tapioca.

Hello.

I'll miss you.

Where are you going?

To the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.

It seems like everyone ends up

leaving in this house.

I'll be back.

Why had he not stopped?

Because I was responsible

for his favorite son's death

and I must be banished from the ranch.

Thats why.

The crossing

Sun Chemical composition:

hydrogen, helium, oxygen, iron

neon, nitrogen, silicon, magnesium

and sulfur.

"How beautiful the sun

"when newly risen,

"And explodes in the morning greetings

"Happy as the man who can

lovingly salute its rising

"more glorious than a dream!"

You're officially a hobo now?

Well, incase you haven't noticed,

I'm heading a freight train

right, on my way to Washington D.C.

And.. What's an adventurer

never leave aside?

His knife, his magnifying glass,

his maps, his whip

and his hat.

But, You have forgotten the whip.

- I'm glad you're here.

- Me too. I'm glad you're here.

No! Not my Japanese weevils!

These larvae.. stay survived..

shipment across the Pacific ocean,

70000 miles, to end up

in the stomach of a goat?

It's just the ignorant Montana

goats. They dont know any better.

Oh.. well.. If you can't manage your karate goats,

maybe you should consider another line of work!

If that's what you think, you know,

set the plate at the table for me.

If that's what you think, you

know, set my plate at the table.

Security, track number 8.

A melancholy feeling came

over me, I cannot get rid of.

The motorhome was pointed backwards,

So, I had that depressing feeling

that I was traveling in reverse.

Hello, kid.

Hey... Kid!

Come over.

Com'on, Come over.

Com'on, Get closer.

Hold It.

This is your first time? Yes.

"Two Clouds".

"Two Clouds", that's my name.

I am T.S.

T for Tecumseh S for Sparrow

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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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