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In the fall of 1965, on the fictional New England island of New Penzance, two twelve-year-olds named and Suzy Bishop decide to run away together. The Protagonists

Every prop—from Suzy’s portable record player to Sam’s watercolor paintings—is explicitly curated.

Anderson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Roman Coppola, drew deeply from his own childhood experiences and a love for classic cinema, citing the 1971 film "Melody" and François Truffaut’s "The 400 Blows" (1959) as key inspirations. Moonrise Kingdom

That is the core of the film: Seeing the trouble, and loving the person anyway.

The film opens on a sweeping, almost dizzying dolly shot through the rambling, poorly constructed home of the Bishop family. We meet Sam Shakusky (Jared Gilman), a spectacled, pipe-smoking Khaki Scout, and Suzy Bishop (Kara Hayward), a raccoon-eyed, bibliophilic outcast. The year is 1965. The location: New Penzance Island, a fictional, craggy island off the coast of New England. In the fall of 1965, on the fictional

film—a meticulously crafted, candy-colored fable about the intensity of first love and the eccentricity of the adult world. Set in the summer of 1965 on the fictional New England island of New Penzance

The soundtrack album, released on May 15, 2012, through ABKCO Records, featured original compositions from alongside existing works by Britten, Hank Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Franz Schubert, and Françoise Hardy. A separate score album, also released by ABKCO, featured six tracks—five by Desplat and one by Mark Mothersbaugh , who scored Anderson’s early films. The soundtrack was a critical and commercial success, topping the Billboard Classical Albums chart. That is the core of the film: Seeing

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