The film opens at Camp Ivanhoe the morning Scout Master Ward (the wonderful Edward Norton) discovers that Sam is missing. They become secret pen pals and devise an elaborate plan to run away together. Jack, in which Suzy played a raven, irrevocably links the kids’ hearts and stories. A chance encounter (if you believe in such things) the summer before at a performance of Noye’s Fludde (composer Benjamin Britten’s operatic retelling of the biblical Noah’s Ark story) at the Church of St. Sam and Suzy are natural-born outliers - an orphan with a flair for the eccentric and a “troubled teen” with anger issues, respectively. Sam is on the island attending Camp Ivanhoe, a “Khaki Scout” summer camp, in preparation for a scouting jamboree on a neighboring island. Suzy lives on the island with her unhappily married attorney parents, Walt (Bill Murray) and Laura (Frances McDormand), and three younger brothers in fantastically rambling house called Summer’s End. Set on the fictitious New England island of New Penzance during the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the love story of 12-year-olds Sam Shakusky (the achingly captivating Jared Gilman) and Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward). Fox and Darjeeling Limited - as an eloquent, funny, enduringly poignant homage to childhood and, moreover, to innocence. In an iconoclastic cinematic oeuvre unrivaled among filmmakers of his generation, Anderson’s latest stands above the rest of his stellar films - Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Fantastic Mr. Moonrise Kingdom is director Wes Anderson‘s seventh feature-length film to date. Perhaps Ethan, a mythology buff who’s never met a fantasy film he didn’t like, put it most eloquently when he said (surprising no one more than himself), “That was the best film I’ve ever seen.” It has captured my imagination completely, an absolute tour de force - wholly original and an “instant classic,” as I heard one film critic utter tell a companion on his way out of the theater. And yet, since I first took my 11-year-old nephew, Ethan, to see it last month, I’ve been talking about Moonrise Kingdom nonstop, encouraging everyone I know to go see it.

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