WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

GENRE:  Adventure/ Family/ Drama
MADE:  2009
CAST:  Max Records, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker
DIRECTOR:  Spike Jonze
WRITER:  Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, Maurice Sendak

PLOT:  Based off of the children's story by Maurice Sendak, a young boy by the name of Max is sent to bed without supper and in his room he creates a world of his own by pure imagination where he, Max is the crowned ruler.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Science Of Sleep, Being John Malkovich, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, Alice In Wonderland

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THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND

GENRE:  Biographical/ Drama/ Thriller
MADE:  2006
CAST:  James McAvoy, Forest Whitaker, Gillian Anderson
DIRECTOR:  Kevin Macdonald
WRITER:  Peter Morgan, Jeremy Brock, Giles Foden

PLOT:  A biographical film on the dictator of Uganda, Idi Amin.  As seen from Amin's doctor's point of view.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Queen, Touching The Void, The King's Speech

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PANIC ROOM

GENRE:  Thriller/ Crime
MADE:  2002
CAST:  Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto
DIRECTOR:  David Fincher
WRITER:  David Koepp

PLOT:  Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah move into an expensive and beautiful tri-level stone townhouse equipped with a panic room in Manhattan in the midst of a divorce.  On their first night three burglars enter in the night and Meg and Sarah are trapped in the panic room.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Misery, Flightplan, Inside Man

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