The Boxtrolls
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Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow |
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| Music by | Dario Marianelli |
| Edited by | Edie Bleiman |
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| Distributed by | Focus Features |
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96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $60 million |
| Box office | $109.3 million |
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| Released | September 23, 2014 | ||||
| Recorded | 2014 | ||||
| Genre | Film score | ||||
| Length | 60:02 | ||||
| Label | Back Lot Music | ||||
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The Boxtrolls is a 2014 American 3D stop-motion animated fantasy comedy film based on the novel Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow. Produced by Laika, it was directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi and written by Irena Brignull and Adam Pava. The film tells the story of Eggs, a human boy raised by trash-collecting trolls, known as "Boxtrolls", as he attempts to save them from Archibald Snatcher, a pest exterminator. The film introduces Isaac Hempstead-Wright as the voice of Eggs and features the voices of Ben Kingsley, Elle Fanning, Dee Bradley Baker, Steven Blum, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, Tracy Morgan, and Simon Pegg.
The film was released on September 26, 2014, by Focus Features, to generally positive reviews from critics. The film earned $109 million on a $60 million budget. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Big Hero 6.
In the fictional hill-top town of Cheesebridge during the Victorian era, rumors abound that subterranean trolls (known as Boxtrolls for the cardboard boxes they wear) have kidnapped and killed a young child. Pest exterminator Archibald Snatcher strikes a deal with the city's leader Lord Portley-Rind to exterminate every Boxtroll in exchange for membership in the city's cheese-loving council called the White Hats, despite the fact that he is severely allergic to cheese.
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