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The film begins with a body that seems to be falling from the sky, alluding to people who fell or jumped from the World Trade Center on September 11, Oskar is incredibly smart, and his father knew that. He would often send him on missions to do something involving one of his riddles. The last riddle his father ever gives him is proof that New York City once possessed a Sixth Borough.

The game requires communication with other people and is not easy for the socially awkward Oskar: "if things were easy to find, they wouldn't be worth finding". On September 11, Oskar and his classmates are sent home from school early while his mother Linda Sandra Bullock is at work. When Oskar gets home, he finds five messages from his father on the answering machine saying he is in the World Trade Center. When Thomas calls for the sixth time, Oskar hears the phone ringing but is too scared to answer.

The machine records a sixth message, which stops when the building collapses, and Oskar knows his father has been killed, and he falls to the floor. He replaces the answering machine with a new one and hides the old one so his mother will never find out.

A few weeks after what Oskar calls "the worst day", he confides in his German grandmother and they become closer. Oskar's relationship with his mother worsens since she cannot explain why the World Trade Center was attacked and why his father died.

Mary F. Pols: Time. Lou Lumenick: New York Post. And, yes, you may cry, but when tears are milked as they are here, the truer response should be rage. Lisa Schwarzbaum: Entertainment Weekly. Register so you can access movie recommendations tailored to your movie taste. Register so you can check out ratings by your friends, family members, and like-minded members of the FA community.

Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother Sandra Bullock and driven by a tirelessly active mind, Oskar has a journey of discovery that takes him beyond his loss and leads to a greater understanding of the world.

Stephen Daldry. Scott Rudin. Eric Roth. Jan 20, wide. Mar 27, Warner Bros. Tom Hanks Thomas Schell. Sandra Bullock Linda Schell. Thomas Horn Oskar Schell. Zoe Caldwell Oskar's Grandmother. Viola Davis Abby Black.

Jeffrey Wright William Black. Max von Sydow The Renter. John Goodman Stan the Doorman. Dennis Hearn Minister. Stephen Henderson Walt the Locksmith. Hazelle Goodman Hazelle Black. Jim Norton Old Mr. Stephen Daldry Director. Eric Roth Screenwriter.

Scott Rudin Producer. Celia D. Costas Executive Producer. Mark Roybal Executive Producer. Nora Skinner Executive Producer. Chris Menges Cinematographer. Barrett Production Design. Claire Simpson Film Editor. Alexandre Desplat Original Music. Ann Roth Costume Designer. Ellen Lewis Casting. Mele Nagler Casting. Peter Rogness Art Director. George DeTitta Jr. Set Decoration. View All Critic Reviews Some will observe that von Sydow played chess with Death in " The Seventh Seal ," a connection that might appeal to Oskar's analytical mind.

You will discover if the key unlocks anything, or if the search for its lock is itself the purpose. There may be some significance in the name Oskar, from Jonathan Safran Foer's original novel; that was the name of the hero of Gunter Grass' The Tin Drum, about a boy who travels around Europe during World War II and carries not a tambourine, but a drum.

You will not discover, however, why it was thought this story needed to be told. This plot is contrivance and folderol. The mysterious key, the silent old man and the magical tambourine are the stuff of fairy tales, and the notion of a boy walking all over New York is so preposterous we're constantly aware of it as a storytelling device. They cannot be healed in such a simplistic way. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

Rated PG for emotional thematic material, some disturbing images and language. Thomas Horn as Oskar Schell. Sandra Bullock as Linda Schell. Viola Davis as Abby Black. John Goodman as Stan the Doorman. Jeffrey Wright as William Black. Max von Sydow as The Renter.