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Quick Info

Rating

6.9/10

Release2013

Runtime1h 45m

StatusReleased

Budget$33,000,000

Revenue$9,494,789

Production

Epithète Films

Cross Creek Pictures

Tapioca Films

Filmarto

Movie

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

2013

1h 45m

6.9

Adventure

Drama

Family

Synopsis

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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