Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Tim Burton, 2016
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs, 2011
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a movie directed by Tim Burton in 2016 and based on the book of the same name by Ransom Riggs, first published in 2011. The movie features Asa Butterfield, Eva Green, Samuel L. Jackson, Terence Stamp, Judi Dench, Ella Purnell, and others.
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Storyline
Abe Portman has told stories to his grandson Jake about battling monsters and spending his childhood at Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children at Cairnholm, Wales. Abe tells Jake to go to #the loop of September 3, 1943. Miss Peregrine greets him and explains that she belongs to a class of female Peculiars named Ymbrynes, who can transform into birds and manipulate time.
Movie vs Book
Year
2016
Minutes
127
Movie Rate
6.70
Source: IMDb
Movie
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Director: Tim Burton
Country: USA
Year: 2016
Length: 2h7m
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Year
2011
Pages
352
Book Rate
7.82
S: Goodreads
Book
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Author: Ransom Riggs
Country: USA
First published in: 2011
Length: 352 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
User polls & recommendations
“I liked the film very much but I found working on it incredibly stressful; I would probably not adapt my own work again - you need to have distance from the book.”
DAVID NICHOLLS (Writer and Screenwriter)
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