Moonrise Kingdom is a 2012 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson, written by Anderson and Roman Coppola, and starring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Bob Balaban, and introducing Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward.
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Moonrise Kingdom stays with Sharp while they await the arrival of a Social Services worker, who will likely place Sam in an orphanage and possibly treat him with electroshock therapy.
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Moonrise Kingdom described the starting idea for the story as a memory of fantasized young love:.
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Moonrise Kingdom's parents were separating, and influenced his later depictions of crumbling marriages.
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Moonrise Kingdom was briefly a Scout, and had acted Noye's Fludde, an opera for children about Noah's Ark.
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Moonrise Kingdom assigned Hayward book reading, and had Gilman practice scouting skills.
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Moonrise Kingdom wanted to ensure that even if a prop is only briefly seen in the film "you kind of feel whether or not they've got the layers of the real thing in them".
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Moonrise Kingdom drew on photographs from the 1960s and the uniforms of Boy Scouts when designing Suzy and Sam's costumes.
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Moonrise Kingdom argued the severity of Sam and Suzy's behavior, and their "profound existential anxiety", indicate the characters were created as products of a more widespread concern for juvenile mental health.
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Moonrise Kingdom interpreted the animated maps as showing a naive style.
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Moonrise Kingdom premiered on May 16,2012, as the opening film at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Anderson's first film to be screened there.
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In Region 1 Moonrise Kingdom was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Universal Studios Home Entertainment on October 16,2012, with featurettes like "A Look Inside Moonrise Kingdom".
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Moonrise Kingdom was listed on many critics' top 10 lists of the year.
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Christopher Orr of The Atlantic wrote that Moonrise Kingdom was "Anderson's best live-action feature" and that it "captures the texture of childhood summers, the sense of having a limited amount of time in which to do unlimited things".
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