Movie Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Movie Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

In Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar Shell is a precocious boy who lost his father in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. But to find the lock to a discovered key his father left behind, Oskar must overcome his anxieties about trains, planes, buses, bridges, loud noises, tall buildings and strangers.

Thomas Horn stars as Oskar, the boy compelled to travel all over New York City to salvage some connection to his dead father, played by Tom Hanks, while growing distant from his mother, played by Sandra Bullock, and sometimes in the company of an odd, silent older man, played wonderfully by Max von Sydow.

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