A Monster Calls (film)

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A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by J. A. Bayona
Screenplay by Patrick Ness
Based on A Monster Calls
by Patrick Ness
(from an idea by Siobhan Dowd)
Produced byBelén Atienza
Starring
Cinematography Óscar Faura
Edited by
Music by Fernando Velázquez
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • September 10, 2016 (2016-09-10)(TIFF)
  • October 7, 2016 (2016-10-07)(Spain)
  • January 1, 2017 (2017-01-01)(United Kingdom)
Running time
108 minutes [2]
Countries
  • Spain [3]
  • United Kingdom [3]
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$43 million [4]
Box office$47.3 million [5]

A Monster Calls is a 2016 dark fantasy drama film directed by J. A. Bayona and starring Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell, and Liam Neeson. Featuring a screenplay adapted by Patrick Ness from his own 2011 novel of the same name, the film follows a boy grappling with his mother's terminal illness who is visited and told stories by a giant anthropomorphic yew tree.

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The film rights to Ness' novel were acquired by Focus Features in March 2014, after which he was hired as screenwriter and Bayona signed on as director. Jones was cast that April, Neeson joined the film in May, and the rest of the main roles were cast by September. Principal photography began on 30 September, with filming taking place primarily in West Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Lancashire in England, as well as in Bayona's native Spain. [3]

After premiering on 10 September 2016 at the Toronto International Film Festival, the film was theatrically released on 7 October in Spain by Universal Pictures, on 1 January 2017 in the United Kingdom by Entertainment One, and five days later in the United States by Focus Features. It received positive reviews from critics, with praise for Bayona's direction, the acting, the visual effects, and the thematic content, but underperformed at the box office, grossing $47 million worldwide. [5]

Plot

In rural England, 12-year-old Conor O'Malley has a close bond with his seriously ill mother. He asks her mother for help following her regular chemotherapy treatments, but Conor does not like his strict grandmother and is troubled by the plan for him to go live with her in the event of his mother's death, as his father lives in the United States and has a new wife and daughter.

At school, Conor is regularly tormented by his classmate Harry. He is also plagued by a nightmare in which the old church near his house collapses into a hole, and he tries desperately to hold on to his mother to prevent her from plummeting to her death. Conor vents his emotions by drawing, a skill he learned from his mother.

One night, at exactly seven minutes past midnight, Conor sees the large yew tree next to the church transform into a gnarled Monster and approach his home. The Monster says it will tell Conor three stories during their next meetings, after which Conor must tell the Monster the truth of his nightmare.

In the Monster's first story, a prince flees from his step-grandmother, the supposedly-evil queen. He then kills his sleeping beloved and scapegoats the queen so the people turn against her and make him king. The Monster, knowing the truth, takes the queen and hides her far away.

As Conor's mother worsens, he moves in with his grandmother. His father comes for a visit and takes Conor to an amusement park. He invites Conor to come spend Christmas with him, but Conor is disappointed, as he had hoped his father would ask him to move to America.

That evening, Conor summons the Monster by making the hands of his grandmother's prized grandfather clock display 12:07. In the Monster's second story, a hard-hearted parson forbids an apothecary from extracting medicine from an old yew tree, only to change his mind when his own children become ill. The apothecary refuses to help him, and the Monster begins to destroy the parson's house as punishment. Conor enthusiastically joins in on the destruction, and really destroys his grandmother's sitting room in a fit of frustration. When she returns, his grandmother, while shocked and upset, does not punish Conor.

The doctors try a final treatment. As it is derived from the yew, Conor implores the Monster to heal his mother, but the Monster dismisses the matter as outside of his responsibility. At school, after Harry tells Conor he will no longer bother him because he "no longer sees [him]", the Monster tells his third story, a brief tale about a man no one sees who cannot stand it anymore, and calls a monster. Conor angrily attacks Harry, hospitalizing him. To his disappointment, the head teacher, aware of his current home situation, refrains from punishing Conor.

When it becomes clear his mother will die, Conor runs to the yew tree, and the Monster forces him to relive his recurring nightmare. His mother dangles from Conor's hand over the edge of the enormous sinkhole and then falls, disappearing into the void. The Monster repeatedly demands that Conor tell his story, saying it is the only way for him to be set free, but Conor steadfastly refuses, fearing the truth will kill him.

Eventually, Conor admits that in his nightmare he lets go of his mother's hand. He says he has long suspected his mother will not survive, and secretly hoped she would die to end their suffering, although, at the same time, he did not want her to die. The Monster commends Conor for his bravery in telling the truth and tells him that it is human to feel as he does.

Conor's grandmother finds him asleep under the tree and takes him to the hospital. Conor embraces his mother, and she glances at the Monster and dies at exactly seven minutes past midnight. Back at his grandmother's house, Conor learns his grandmother has refurbished his mother's old room for him. He finds his mother's childhood art book, which includes pictures of characters from the stories the Monster told him, as well as a drawing of his mother as a child on the Monster's shoulder.

Cast

Production

Focus Features bought the rights to Patrick Ness' book in March 2014. [8] Ness served as the film's screenwriter, with J. A. Bayona hired as director. [9] Felicity Jones was cast on 23 April 2014, [10] Liam Neeson was cast on 8 May, [11] Sigourney Weaver was cast on 18 August, [12] and Toby Kebbell was cast on 19 August. [13] On 3 September, Ness tweeted that Lewis MacDougall had been cast in the lead role. [14] Geraldine Chaplin joined the cast of the film on 30 September. [15]

Filming

Principal photography began on 30 September 2014, [16] and took place in Spain and Britain. [15] [17] On 9 October, filming began on location in Glossop, Preston, Lancashire (Ramsbottom), Rivington Pike (Chorley/Horwich), Blackpool Pleasure Beach, and Marsden, West Yorkshire. [18]

Liam Neeson, who voices the film's titular tree creature, was not on set throughout the shooting process, having completed his motion-capture performance, with MacDougall in the room, during a two-week period beforehand. [19] Actor Tom Holland, who had previously worked with Bayona on The Impossible (2012), worked on set as the stand-in for the Monster. [6] [7]

Release

In the United States, the film was originally scheduled for an October 2016 release, [20] [21] before being rescheduled for a limited rollout on 23 December 2016, followed by a wide release on 6 January 2017. [22] It was released in the United Kingdom on 1 January 2017 by Entertainment One and Lionsgate, [23] and in India on 6 January 2017 by Relativity B4U. [24]

Reception

Box office

A Monster Calls grossed $3.7 million in the United States and Canada and $43.5 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $47.2 million, against a production budget of $43 million. [5]

In North America, the film had its wide release alongside the opening of Underworld: Blood Wars and the wide expansions of Hidden Figures and Lion , and was initially expected to gross around $10 million from 1,523 theaters over the weekend. [25] However, after making just $659,000 on its first day, weekend projections were lowered to $2 million, which it ended up grossing, finishing 13th at the box office. [26] In its second weekend of wide release, the film grossed $537,262 (a drop of 74.2%), and in its third week, it made just $19,080 (a drop of 96.4%) after being pulled from all but 42 theaters, one of the biggest third week theater drops in history. [27] [28]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 86% of 266 critics' reviews of the film are positive, with an average rating of 7.6/10; the site's "critics consensus" reads: "A Monster Calls deftly balances dark themes and fantastical elements to deliver an engrossing and uncommonly moving entry in the crowded coming-of-age genre." [29] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 76 out of 100 based on reviews from 40 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [30] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. [31]

Accolades

List of awards and nominations
AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipient(s)ResultRef(s)
AARP Annual Movies for Grownups Awards 6 February 2017Best Supporting Actress Sigourney Weaver Nominated [32]
Best Intergenerational FilmA Monster CallsNominated
Camerimage 19 November 2016Golden Frog Award for Best Cinematography Óscar Faura Nominated [33]
Critics' Choice Awards 11 December 2016 Best Young Performer Lewis MacDougall Nominated [34]
Best Visual Effects A Monster CallsNominated
Detroit Film Critics Society 19 December 2016 Best Supporting Actress Felicity Jones Nominated [35]
Empire Awards 19 March 2017 Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy A Monster CallsWon [36]
Best Male Newcomer Lewis MacDougallNominated
Evening Standard British Film Awards 8 December 2016Breakthrough of the YearLewis MacDougallNominated [37]
Gaudí Awards 29 January 2017 Best Non-Catalan Language FilmA Monster CallsWon [38]
Best Director J. A. Bayona Won
Best Production Supervision Sandra Hermida Won
Best Art Direction Eugenio Caballero Won
Best EditingJaume Martí and Bernat Vilaplana Won
Best Original Music Fernando Velázquez Nominated
Best Cinematography Oscar Faura Won
Best Costume DesignSteven NobleNominated
Best Sound Oriol Tarragó, Peter Glossop, Marc OrtsWon
Best Visual EffectsFélix Bergés, Pau Costa, David Martí, Montse RibéWon
Golden Tomato Awards 12 January 2017Best British Movie 2016A Monster Calls2nd Place [39]
Best Kids/Family Movie 2016A Monster Calls3rd Place
Goya Awards 4 February 2017 Best Film A Monster CallsNominated [40]
Best Director J. A. BayonaWon
Best Supporting Actress Sigourney WeaverNominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Patrick Ness Nominated
Best Original Score Fernando Velázquez Won
Best Cinematography Óscar FauraWon
Best EditingJaume Martí and Bernat VilaplanaWon
Best Production SupervisionSandra Hermida MunizWon
Best Art DirectionEugenio CaballeroWon
Best Makeup and HairstylesMarese Langan and David Martí Won
Best SoundPeter Glossop, Marc Orts and Oriol TarragóWon
Best Special EffectsFelix Bergés and Pau CostaWon
London Film Critics' Circle 22 January 2017 Young British/Irish Performer of the YearLewis MacDougallWon [41]
Premios Feroz 23 January 2017 Best Drama FilmA Monster CallsNominated [42]
Best DirectorJ. A. BayonaNominated
Best ScreenplayPatrick NessNominated
Best Main ActorLewis MacDougallNominated
Best Original SoundtrackFernando VelázquezWon
Best TrailerA Monster CallsNominated
Best Film PosterA Monster CallsNominated
San Diego Film Critics Society 12 December 2016 Best Visual EffectsA Monster CallsNominated [43] [44]
Saturn Awards 28 June 2017 Best Fantasy Film A Monster CallsNominated [45]
Best Performance by a Younger Actor Lewis MacDougallNominated
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association 18 December 2016 Best Visual EffectsA Monster CallsNominated [46]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 5 December 2016 Best Youth Performance Lewis MacDougallNominated [47]
Best Adapted Screenplay Patrick NessNominated
Best Voice Performance Liam Neeson Won
Best Motion Capture PerformanceNominated

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