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Quick Info

Rating

6.7/10

Release2014

Runtime1h 37m

StatusReleased

Budget$60,000,000

Revenue$108,255,770

Production

LAIKA

Movie

The Boxtrolls

2014

1h 37m

6.7

Animation

Comedy

Family

Fantasy

Synopsis

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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