The Boxtrolls

The Boxtrolls is a 2014 American 3D stopmotion animated fantasycomedy film based on the novel Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow. Produced by Laika, it was directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi. The film tells the story of Eggs, a human boy raised by trashcollecting trolls, as he attempts to save them from Archibald Snatcher, a pest exterminator. The film stars Isaac HempsteadWright, Ben Kingsley, Elle Fanning, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade and Tracy Morgan. It was released on September 26, 2014 by Focus Features, to positive reviews. The film earned 109 million on a 60 million budget. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Big Hero 6.

In actuality, the Boxtrolls are peaceful and emerge from underground at night to scavenge for discarded items with which to make useful inventions. A human boy named Eggs lives among them, cared for by a Boxtroll named Fish. As Eggs grows up over ten years, he becomes dismayed by the disappearing Boxtrolls seized by Snatcher. When Lord PortleyRinds daughter Winnie notices Eggs with two Boxtrolls, Snatcher captures Fish. Eggs sneaks to the surface to find him and emerges in an annual fair to commemorate the disappearance of the Trubshaw Baby who was presumed killed by Boxtrolls.Disgusted by the towns inaccurate portrayal of the creatures, he follows Winnie. After a brief exchange, he asks her for directions to Snatchers headquarters, located at an abandoned factory, where Eggs rescues Fish. They are caught in the escape. Snatcher recognizes Eggs as the Trubshaw Baby and reveals that all the captured Boxtrolls are building him a machine. Winnie, who covertly followed Eggs, overhears this exchange. She then helps Eggs and Fish escape from Snatcher and they take shelter in the Boxtrolls caves, where Fish explains that Eggs father had given him to them to keep him from Snatcher. Winnie agrees to help Eggs tell PortleyRind the truth. At a ball held to commemorate the purchase of a giant cheese wheel called the Briehemoth, Eggs tries to confront PortleyRind, but inadvertently knocks the cheese into a river. Eggs announces himself to the party as the Trubshaw Baby, but no one believes him. ........

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