A movie as much for adults who remember being a kid, or who are raising kids, as it is for kids, this screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak's slim book creates a rough, scary natural world inhabited by fearsome creatures who also have the same issues of acceptance, hierarcy, and trouble controlling their destructive impulses that Max, the boy hero, has. Some say very young children will be frightened, but the youngsters at the showing I attended seemed to handle it just fine. It was the adults who seemed a bit emotional. Spike Jonze has done a fantastic job creating this world, which was done with Sendak's cooperation. Don't be afraid, see it.Rated PG. 101 minutes. Spike Jonze - Director / Writer (screenplay), Dave Eggers - Writer (screenplay), Maurice Sendak - Writer (book) / Producer, John B. Carls - Producer, Gary Goetzman - Producer, Tom Hanks - Producer, Vincent landay - Producer, Lance Acord - Cinematographer, Carter Burwell - Composer, Karen O.- Composer, K.K. Barrett - Production Designer, James Haygood -Editor, Eric Zumbrunnen - Editor. Produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Principal actors and voices: Catherine Keener, Max Records, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker.
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