The Prodigies (film)

The Prodigies is a 2011 FrenchBritish computeranimated science fiction, action, drama and psychological thriller film based on La Nuit des enfants rois, a novel written by French writer Bernard Lenteric, Magnolia Pictures had acquired distribution rights in the film for North America and plans to release the Englishlanguage American version under the title The Prodigies, Entertainment Film Distributors had acquired distribution rights in the film for United Kingdom and Ireland and plans to release the Englishlanguage British version under the title The Prodigies The Night of Royal Children, as Warner Bros. Pictures holds France distribution rights.

Twenty years later, Jimbo has become a brilliant researcher in the Killian Foundation for Gifted Children, married to Ann with whom they are due to have a child. Jimbo has only one goal to find young children who, like him, possess supernatural powers. Thus, he created an extremely complex online game in the hopes that hell be able to identify any such people around the United States. One night, five unrelated teenagers pass the game and hack Jimbos computer. In desparation Jimbo shuts his computer down and restarts it, only to find a message on his screen with the words Where Are You?. Jimbo immediately sets out to find them and bring them to the Foundation, but on his return he learns of the death of Killian. The Foundation therefore passes onto Melanie, Killians daughter, who plans with Jenkins her secondincommand to end Jimbos game and instead work on a TV show. In order to save the game and the possibility of locating more golden children Jimbo has the idea of combining the ideas create a largescale televised competition to reveal future geniuses. The show, American Genius, is launched, and five teenagers are announced as participants handpicked by Jimbo, having met and identified them as golden children Gil, an abused child Liza, a young girl trained to be a top model Lee, a young Asian who helps her parents in their trade Harry , an AfricanAmerican whose mother wastes all her money in Paris and Sammy, the only son of a wealthy family and physical ungrateful.The five are identified immediately and Jimbo arranges to meet with them in secret in Central Park. No sooner are the teenagers gathered than two thugs assault and rape Liza. Jimbo, however, is not there he has just learned that Ann is pregnant. He learns of the teenagers situation too late and, by the time he arrives at the park, Liza is missing and the other four are on the floor, unconscious. However, through Lizas agony while she is being raped, her pain is telepathically extended to the other fo

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