This season, the AAM’s Movies at the Museum program celebrates the diverse works of director Spike Jonze. Working as a director, producer, screenwriter, and actor across various formats of film and video, Jonze has established a creative range of characters, from pensive to prankster.
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
101 min
Rated PG
Written by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers as an adaption of Maurice Sendak’s 1963 children’s book of the same name, Where the Wild Things Are combines live-action, animatronics, and computer-generated imagery to tell the story of lonely nine-year-old Max, who sails away to an island inhabited by creatures known as the “Wild Things.”
