A Monster Calls is a movie directed by J.A. Bayona in 2016 and based on the book of the same name by Patrick Ness, first published in 2011. The movie features Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson, Toby Kebbell, Geraldine Chaplin, and others.
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“The movie is better than the book”
But the book is worth reading.
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Storyline
13-year-old Conor O’Malley has a close bond with his seriously ill mother, and maintains the household during her regular chemotherapy treatments at the hospital. After he angrily damages her valuable clock, the Monster appears and tells the second story: a hard-hearted parson forbids an apothecary from extracting medicine from an old yew tree, only to rescind this measure when his own children become ill.
Movie vs Book
Year
2016
Minutes
108
Movie Rate
7.50
Source: IMDb
Movie
A Monster Calls
Director: J.A. Bayona
Country: UK
Year: 2016
Length: 1h48m
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Year
2011
Pages
237
Book Rate
8.68
S: Goodreads
Book
A Monster Calls
Author: Patrick Ness
Country: UK
First published in: 2011
Length: 237 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“It’s such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.”
ARTHUR SLADE (Writer)
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