Oscar Nominee Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

EYES IN Magazine Editor-in-Chief Vivian van Dijk attended the premiere of Incredible Loud & Extremely Close, and had the following to say about the film nominated for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor at the 2012 Academy Awards:

"Brilliant perfomances by Sandra Bullock, young actor Thomas Horn, Max Von Sydow, and Tom Hanks make a sad story into a feel good movie while witnessing the mind of this incredible boy,
the extraordinary nine year old Oskar Schell, who lives with his mother in Manhattan. What is so special about Oskar is his ability to invent all kinds off things, his incredible imagination and his unquenchable thirst for knowledge. At first he seems to be a very happy young man, but the truth is that he is incredibly sad and very unhappy. He misses his father, Thomas Schell, who died in the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a wonderful story about ups and downs in life, how several people handle horrible occurrences, losing something or someone that you love and coming to terms with this loss."

-Vivian van Dijk, EYES IN Magazine Editor-in-Chief

More About the Film

Adapted from the acclaimed bestseller by Jonathan Safran Foer, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” is a story that unfolds from inside the young mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in his deceased father’s belongings sets him off on an urgent search across the city for the lock it will open. A year after his father died in the World Trade Center on what Oskar calls “The Worst Day,” he is determined to keep his vital connection to the man who playfully cajoled him into confronting his wildest fears.

Now, as Oskar crosses the five New York boroughs in quest of the missing lock – encountering an eclectic assortment of people who are each survivors in their own way – he begins to uncover unseen links to the father he misses, to the mother who seems so far away from him and to the whole noisy, dangerous, discombobulating world around him.Three-time Academy Award® nominee Stephen Daldry (“Billy Elliot,” “The Reader,” “The Hours”) directed “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” from a screenplay by Academy Award® winner Eric Roth (“Forrest Gump,” “The Insider”), based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel.

The film stars Academy Award® winners Tom Hanks (“Forrest Gump,” “Philadelphia”) and Sandra Bullock (“The Blind Side”) along with newcomer Thomas Horn in the role of Oskar, and was produced by Scott Rudin (“No Country for Old Men,” “The Social Network,” “True Grit”). Celia Costas, Mark Roybal and Nora Skinner served as executive producers, with Eli Bush and Tarik Karam as co-producers.The film also stars Academy Award® nominees Max von Sydow (“Shutter Island,” “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” “Pelle the Conqueror”) and Viola Davis (“Doubt,” “The Help”), John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright and Zoe Caldwell.

The behind-the-scenes creative team includes Oscar®-winning director of photography Chris Menges (“The Mission,” “The Killing Fields”); production designer K.K. Barrett; Academy Award®-winning editor Claire Simpson (“Platoon”); and Oscar®-winning costume designer Ann Roth (“The English Patient”). The music is by four-time Academy Award®-nominated composer Alexandre Desplat (“The King’s Speech”).Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Scott Rudin Production of a Stephen Daldry film, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.” The movie will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.The film has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for emotional thematic material, some disturbing images and language.

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