The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)

Discover the extravagant journey.

A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.

Director

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Writers

Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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