

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
Discover the extravagant journey.
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $33M
- Box office
- $9.5M
- Language
- English
- freight train
- stowaway
- child prodigy
- twin brother
- train
- boy genius
- riding the rail
- runaway child
- brother killing brother
- smithsonian
- cartographer
- perpetual motion machine
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Produced in
Canada, France
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG26 Oct 2014
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG15 Jun 2014
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical916 Oct 2013
BrazilBR
- Theatrical106 Nov 2014
FranceFR
- TheatricalU16 Oct 2013
- Digital / OTTVOD15 Feb 2014
- PhysicalDVD & Blu-Ray4 Jun 2014
GermanyDE
- Theatrical017 Jul 2014
GreeceGR
- TheatricalΚ10 Jul 2014
- PhysicalDVD16 Oct 2014
Hong KongHK
- Theatrical9 Jul 2015
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1215 Jun 2014
ItalyIT
- Theatrical28 May 2015
JapanJP
- Digital / OTTG27 Oct 2014
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical914 Nov 2013
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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet was released on 16 October 2013.
Audience reviews
1- R8/10
Reno
7/14/2016
> Sure, everyone finds their pine tree. The film was produced by three countries from three different continents, carved by one of my favoutire French directors that talks of a prodigy child. An English language film set in the American soil. If you had liked his films, then you would like this one as well. Like all his films, it was visually fantastic and it was his first digital 3D project. One of the underrated…
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