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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ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

GENRE:  Drama/ Romance/ Comedy
MADE:  2004
CAST:  Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst
DIRECTOR:  Michel Gondry
WRITER:  Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth

PLOT:  A brilliant doctor creates a way to erase certain memories in people, with a flow of grieving patients a couple goes in to erase the memories of each other, this is their story.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Science Of Sleep, The Fountain, Pan's Labyrinth

 

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SHUTTER ISLAND

GENRE:  Mystery/ Psychological Thriller
MADE:  2010
CAST:  Leonardo Dicaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley
DIRECTOR:  Martin Scorsese
WRITER:  Laeta Kalogridis, Dennis Lehane

PLOT:  An ex-miliatry U.S. Marshall is hired to find a missing patient in a mental institute on Shutter Island.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Identity, The Others, The Machinist

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