Where the Wild Things Are

2009

Directed by Spike Jonze

Cast: Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Catherine O'Hara

Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.