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Title The Boxtrolls [videorecording] / Focus Features ; LAIKA ; directed by Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi ; produced by David Bleiman Ichioka, Travis Knight ; screenplay by Irena Brignull, Adam Pava.

Publication Info. Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2015]

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile DVD Collection  Y DVD Boxtrolls    ---  DUE 01-14-20 Billed
Description 1 videodisc (1 hr., 37 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
two-dimensional moving image tdi rdacontent
video v rdamedia
videodisc vd rdacarrier
NTSC rda
video file DVD video Region 1 rda
Motion pictures lcgft
System Details DVD, NTSC, region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1); Dolby Digital 5.1.
Language English, French, or Spanish dialogue with optonal Spanish or French subtitles; English subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performer Voices, Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, Dee Bradley Baker, Steve Blum, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, Tracy Morgan, Simon Pegg.
Credits Lead animators, Travis Knight [and four others] ; director of photography, John Ashlee Prat ; editor, Edie Ichioka ; music, Dario Marianelli.
Note "Based on the children's novel 'Here Be Monsters' by Alan Snow."
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2014.
Audience Rating: PG; for action, some peril and mild rude humor.
Summary A community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they've built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher, comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, 'into the light,' where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie. Together, they devise a daring plan to save Eggs' family.
Note Bonus features: Dare to be square: behind the scenes of The boxtrolls; 5 featurettes that take you inside the magical world of The Boxtrolls; feature commentary with directors Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi.
Subject Families -- Juvenile drama.
Orphans -- Juvenile drama.
Trolls -- Juvenile drama.
Snow, Alan -- Film adaptations.
DVD-Video discs.
Added Author Motion picture adaptation of (work): Snow, Alan. Here be monsters.
Stacchi, Anthony, film director.
Annable, Graham, film director.
Hempstead-Wright, Isaac, 1999- voice actor.
Kingsley, Ben, 1943- voice actor.
Fanning, Elle, 1998- voice actor.
Harris, Jared, 1961- voice actor.
Frost, Nick, 1970- voice actor.
Collette, Toni, 1972-evoice actor.
Morgan, Tracy, 1968- voice actor.
Marianelli, Dario.
LAIKA (Firm), production company.
Focus Features film distributor.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm) film distributor.
Added Title Box trolls
Container of (work): Boxtrolls (Motion picture)
Container of (expression): Boxtrolls (Motion picture). French.
Container of (expression): Boxtrolls (Motion picture). Spanish.
Standard No. 025192211553
Music No. 62129695 Universal

 
    
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