Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
February 2012
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Leah Rozen
In the end, the movie is about healing and coming to understand that some things can't be explained.
Ben Walters
Less a film about communication, in the end, than one with its fingers in its ears.
Tom Long
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is the kind of movie you want to punch in the nose.
Lisa Kennedy
If imagining a city where people open their doors (or don't) to a boy with a key and a ton of questions is sentimental ... then it is vitally, beautifully so.
Ann Hornaday
Stephen Daldry's extremely labored and incredibly crass adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel.
Mick LaSalle
The difficulty is mainly with the story, which despite all the emotion hovering around it, remains thin and uninvolving.
Critic reviews
Leah Rozen
In the end, the movie is about healing and coming to understand that some things can't be explained.
Ben Walters
Less a film about communication, in the end, than one with its fingers in its ears.
Tom Long
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is the kind of movie you want to punch in the nose.
Lisa Kennedy
If imagining a city where people open their doors (or don't) to a boy with a key and a ton of questions is sentimental ... then it is vitally, beautifully so.
Ann Hornaday
Stephen Daldry's extremely labored and incredibly crass adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel.
Mick LaSalle
The difficulty is mainly with the story, which despite all the emotion hovering around it, remains thin and uninvolving.
User reviews
Excellent if you understand For those who comment about the kid dealing with it all wrong, you must have never lost your dad at that age. I did and I understand the feelings he went through. A little extreme in his "mission", but only way he knew how to make sense of things. Kid actor did excellent job and movie have great insight to those directly involved...
My favorite new movie so far! I loved this movie! I was left wanting to know more by the end, it was so intriguing. The young actor who played Oskar was amazing, and his character reminded me of my own son. This film does not have a bunch of bells and whistles, nor a complicated plot line. It was simply poetic, touching, and those who have left negative reviews apparently did not appreciate its understated genious.
Great movie I have read the book before I watched the movie, and to tell the truth, I kind of like the book better. But the movie was good too, but I just thou that the movie was missing a lot of which the book had. Sopilers don't read if you haven't watched the movie, or read the book. The movie did not have the 103 year old Mr.Black that was just above Oskers apartment that followed him, instead, the renter (grandpa) followed him. I the ending, it was sort of similar, but different. In the book, Osker digs up his fathers empty grave, which did not happen in the movie. I also don't remember the renter leaving in the book. He was the one who helped dig up the grave. They also left out the play, that osker was in, and his grandma being there and embaress him with her sneezing. Over all it was a good movie, but I think the book was better. More detail, more things to happen, and it is the original thing. I think Thomas horn did great if his first movie.

GREAT This exceptional movie is about a child with Asperger's syndrome (one of the ASD or Autism spectrum disorders). He shows some of the classical features of the Dz such as difficulty with communication skills, and being obsessed about a particular object - in this case the key here found after 9/11. In every other way he is highly exceptional. His intellect is most likely comparable to the majority of Asperger's ppl and is in genius range. He is having a hard time dealing with the terror attacks.
Overrated Precocious neurotic kid. Pointless grandfather storyline. Anticlimactic ending. Waited two hours for something to happen and in the end it was just a celebration of a whiny kid in NYC. Absolute waste of time.
Starts slow, but pays off This movie is all about the mind of a child. In fact, the movie is told so well that I had a hard time figuring out whether the child was disabled or not. If you wait through the detailed character development in the first part of the movie, the climax is well worth it. (I also appreciated it didn't completely validate the child's rebellion.)
Extremely awsome incredibly sad I loved it. It is really sad though I even cried but it is amazing
Awesome Movie The kid that played in the movie is a great actor! Don't think anyone else could have done any better. Great storyline!
Decent Left me hanging for more, but was pretty good. Feelings about characters change completely towards the end.
Great It's time to great such an enjoyable movie suited for the family with a moral. Good acting
Amazing Its a really sad movie. A great one but its really touching.
Touching This was a great movie.no.doubt one of the best of the year so far.Besides its Tom Hanks one of the best actors ever.He never lets you down
From school to in house suspension This movies sure to win over the hearts of those guys fish can chase. A prisoners royal flush, and a noble mans claim to fame. Tom Hanks wins big!
Horrible New title: Extremely dull and incredibly cloying. It tries to tug at your heart strings, but it primarily tugged at my bowels
Great I found this movie incredibly moving. The actor who plays the young boy does a great job. It can't be easy to carry off a character who has aspergers but he does it in an entirely convincing way. This film transports you on a moving adventure. It may not be true to life, but it wasn't trying to be.
Cast and credits
Actors | Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Viola Davis, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, Max Von Sydow |
Director | Stephen Daldry |
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Start within 30 days, finish within 48 hours.
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Run time
129 minutes
Rating
PG-13
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