Product Information Writer/director Chris Butler puts his experience working on CORALINE and Tim Burton's THE CORPSE BRIDE to good use in this charmingly morbid tale of an eccentric young hero facing supernatural forces that would make most grown-ups cower in fear. Featuring the voices of Casey Affleck, Jeff Garlin, John Goodman, Anna Kendrick, Leslie Mann, and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Product Identifiers Producer Travis Knight, Arianne Sutner EAN 5050582928785 eBay Product ID (ePID) 4048553939 Product Key Features Film/TV Title ParaNorman Director Sam Fell, Chris Butler Language English Subtitle Language Arabic\Hindi\Icelandic Run Time 97 Mins Aspect Ratio 2.40 Anamorphic Wide Screen Release Year 2014 Format DVD Features Widescreen, With Subtitles Genre Family, Animation Additional Product Features Number of Discs 1 Certificate PG Country/Region of Manufacture United States of America Composer Jon Brion Additional Information Writer/director Chris Butler puts his experience working on CORALINE and Tim Burton's THE CORPSE BRIDE to good use in this charmingly morbid tale of an eccentric young hero facing supernatural forces that would make most grown-ups cower in fear. Eleven-year-old Norman Babcock (voice of Kodi Smit-McPhee) is a young misfit with a remarkable gift: He sees dead people. Although Norman's clairvoyance allows him the unique opportunity to enjoy the company of his beloved grandmother (Elaine Stritch) long after she has ceased to be, it also drives his frustrated father Perry (Jeff Garlin) and popularity-obsessed sister Courtney (Anna Kendrick) up the wall at home and makes him the target of dim-witted bully Alvin (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) at school. His only friend is portly Neil (Tucker Albrizzi), who isn't exactly a beacon of coolness. When Norman's deceased uncle Prenderghast (John Goodman), a local pariah, warns the young boy that he must save their small town of Blithe Hollow from a witch's curse that has plagued the area for centuries, the young creature-feature addict isn't entirely sure how to respond -- that is, until the sky turns red, the clouds start to swirl, and the dead rise up from their graves. Now, as a terrified mob takes to the streets with torches in hand, it's up to Norman, Courtney, Alvin, Neil, and Neil's older brother Mitch (Casey Affleck) to put things right, even if it means confronting the 300-year-old curse that has haunted Blithe Hollow ever since the notorious witch hunts of the 18th century. Reviews New York Post - ParaNorman is probably the year's most visually dazzling movie so far, and the stunning climax centering on an 11-year-old witch (Jodelle Ferland) is too good to spoil., Charlotte Observer - It's freakishly funny, suddenly tender, gleefully macabre, genuinely scary, and full of a moral û fear turns weak people into bullies û which is dosed out so gently that it never tastes like medicine., Time Out - Ghoulish? Yes. Funny? You bet. Screenwriter Chris Butler Sound source Dolby Digital Editor Christopher Murrie Movie/TV Title ParaNorman Voice Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi, Jeff Garlin, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, Anna Kendrick, Bernard Hill, Elaine Stritch, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, John Goodman Consumer Advice Contains mild comic horror and violence, frightening sequences and innuendo
