Where the Wild Things Are
There's one in all of us.
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
- Director
- Spike Jonze
- Worldwide
- $100M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Where the Wild Things Are returned 1.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $100M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $100M
- Release date
- Oct 16, 2009
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- MPAA rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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