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The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008
· Movie
· 95 min
C
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2673
- IMDb #3417
- Google retired #437
- Rotten Tomatoes #2253
- Metacritic #2406
- Letterboxd #2726
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1951
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3115
- Metacritic Critics #2246
- Metacritic Audience #2704
- Criticker #2544
- Douban #1238
- Kinopoisk #3095
- AlloCiné #3162
- Trakt #1799
Every rating
40–94
out of 100
Upon moving into the dilapidated Spiderwick Estate, the Grace children discover their great-great-uncle's field guide to the fantastical world of faeries. They learn that the book holds the key to a world of magical creatures existing all around them. A malicious ogre seeks the guide to gain power and destroy the natural balance, forcing the siblings to protect the book and their family from the impending danger.
Details
- Director
- Mark Waters
- Writers
- David Berenbaum, John Sayles, Karey Kirkpatrick
- Based on
- The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black
- Released
- 14 February 2008
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $90.0M
- Box office
- $164.2M
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