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Certificate 12A

Cast Tom Hanks Thomas Horn Sandra Bullock Zoe Caldwell Max Von Sydow John Goodman Viola Davis Jeffrey Wright

Directors Stephen Daldry

Screenwriters Eric Roth

Running Time 129 minutes

Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close
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Plot
Post 9/11 and following the death of his father (Hanks) in the Twin Towers, a grieving boy (Horn) finds a mysterious key among his father’s things and undertakes an odyssey around New York’s five boroughs in search of what it will unlock, meeting a cross-section of New Yorkers with their own sorrows.

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