EXTREMELY Loud and Incredibly Close brings together Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, but the real star of the show is young Thomas Horn, who plays a nine-year-old searching New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001. Adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, this the story of a boy dealing with the loss of his father, with their earlier relationship told through flashbacks.
Oskar (Horn) is different to others in his age group and plays a tambourine to help him manage some of the more difficult parts of life.
He lives alone with his mother (Bullock) because his father (Hanks) died in one of the skyscrapers.
Oskar’s granny (Zoe Caldwell), lives across the way, and she has a lodger who no one ever sees, but happens to be Max von Sydow.
He never speaks, but has the word ‘yes’ on one hand, and ‘no’ on the other, which makes communication possible.
Oskar has found a key in a vase, to which the name ‘Black’ is attached, on an envelope.
He sets himself the task of finding out which of the hundreds of the people called ‘Black’ in New York City it belongs to, believing it will lead him to connect with his dead father. Runs for 129 minutes and, bring some tissues along.
