2008 · family · adventure · fantasy
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Directed by Mark Waters1h 35m2008
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
Our read: The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive family · adventure · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle family / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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