Young lovers of Moonrise Kingdom are a runaway success

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NORTON SCIENTIFIC

• Young Lovers of Moonrise Kingdom are a Runaway
  Success

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MOONRISE KINGDOM (12A)

• If the superb and surreal work of director Wes
  Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr Fox)
  has so far passed you by, then the constellation
  of grown-up stars playing supporting roles in
  this tale of two lovestruck 12-year-olds should
  provide ample evidence of why he is held in such
  high regard.
• Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances
  McDormand and Tilda Swinton are happy here to
  play second fiddle to juvenile leads and, perhaps
  more pertinently, the beguiling vision of
  director Anderson and his co-writer Roman
  Coppola.
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• Suzy (Kara Hayward) is a very troubled child. We
  know this partly because she runs away from the
  home she shares with three brothers and warring
  parents (Murray and McDormand), but mostly
  because she has found her mothers copy of a book
  titled Coping With The Very Troubled Child.
• Orphan Sam (Jared Gilman) is similarly plagued by
  adolescent angst, loneliness and that sense of
  displacement writers have explored to varying
  effect since J.?D. Salingers The Catcher In The
  Rye.

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• Sam is stuck in a scout camp when this story
  begins, persecuted by his fellow troops and
  barely protected by a guileless Scout leader
  (Norton). 
• The first of many triumphs is the ease with which
  we believe Sam and Suzy have been conducting a
  first romance entirely by letter since they
  met the previous summer. When they run away
  together, pursued by Sams tormentors and
  Williss grizzled, disappointed sheriff, were
  invited to run with them.
• It is an impossible invitation to resist. The
  tentative treatment of pubescent love and desire
  is masterful, enhanced by the increasingly
  fantastical air with which Anderson imbues
  proceedings and the idealised, isolated cove (the
  titular Moonrise Kingdom) that is destination and
  embodiment of adolescent dreams.
• With social services (in the guise of an icy
  Swinton) and a storm closing in, Suzy and Sams
  romance becomes the stage on which the adults
  hopes and disappointments play out.
• Visually striking and boasting beautifully
  measured central performances, this tale of love,
  redemption and dissipating innocence should
  delight viewers of every age.