A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
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- Status
- Released
- Production
- Epithète Films, Tapioca Films, Filmarto, Gaumont
Keywords
- freight train
- stowaway
- child prodigy
- twin brother
- train
- boy genius
- riding the rail
- runaway child
- brother killing brother
- smithsonian
- cartographer
- perpetual motion machine
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Top Cast
Kyle Catlett as T.S. Spivet
Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Clair
Judy Davis as G.H. Jibsen
Callum Keith Rennie as Father
Niamh Wilson as Gracie
Jakob Davies as Layton
Rick Mercer as Roy
Robert Maillet as Giant Hobo
Top Crew
Jean-Pierre Jeunet · Director, Writer
Guillaume Laurant · Screenplay
Denis Sanacore · Composer
Thomas Hardmeier · Cinematographer
Hervé Schneid · Editor
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