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The Boxtrolls

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6.7(1,892)20141h 37m10

An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.

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Status
Released
Budget
$60M
Box office
$108.3M
Language
English
  • based on novel or book
  • parent child relationship
  • stop motion
  • unlikely friendship
  • duringcreditsstinger
  • 3d animation

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Behind the camera

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG26 Sept 2014
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalPG12 Sept 2014
    • PhysicalPG4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray2 Dec 2024
  • AustraliaAU

    • Theatrical (limited)PGStarlight Children's Foundation fundraising screenings14 Nov 2014
    • TheatricalPG18 Nov 2014
  • ArgentinaAR

    • TheatricalATPReestreno10 Sept 2026
  • AustriaAT

    • Digital / OTT623 Oct 2014
  • BelgiumBE

    • Theatrical68 Oct 2014
  • BrazilBR

    • TheatricalL2 Oct 2014
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Theatrical15+23 Oct 2014
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical711 Sept 2014
  • EstoniaEE

    • Theatrical17 Oct 2014
  • FinlandFI

    • Theatrical18 Sept 2014
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalTP15 Oct 2014
    • PhysicalDVD & Blu-Ray17 Feb 2015

Frequently asked questions

The Boxtrolls was released on 10 September 2014.

Audience reviews

2
  • R

    r96sk

    10/19/2020

    6/10

    <em>'The Boxtrolls'</em> has parts that I like, but overall I found it slow-moving. I enjoyed the Boxtrolls themselves, I like how they look and come across. Archibald (Ben Kingsley) and bodyguards, Messrs Trout (Nick Frost) and Pickles (Richard Ayoade), are good, as is the casting of Jared Harris as Lord Charles Portley-Rind. With that said, I liked them individually rather than as a group. Frost and Ayoade be…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    11/21/2022

    7/10

    "Snatcher" is determined to get himself a white hat! Why? Well that symbolises his membership of the town's elite - and it gets him to the table for the cheese tasting, and boy does he like cheese - even if it doesn't particularly like him! The scornful "Lord Portley-Rind", though, is having none of this - until, that is, he is promised that they will be rid of the evil, menacing, baby-stealing box trolls. OK, he has…

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