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Cloud Atlas Keep the Lights On Frankenweenie The Other Son about us Pusher BY ROGER EBERT / October 3, 2012 The Sessions About the site » more current releases » In 1984, Tim Burton Site FAQs » launched his career with a one-minute movie reviews live-action short named cast & credits Contact us » "Frankenweenie," and now still playing he returns to that material With the voices of: Email the Movie for the new Victor Charlie Tahan Answer Man » "Frankenweenie," a stop- Dad Martin Short About Cherry Alex Cross motion, black-and-white Mom Catherine O’Hara animated comedy inspired Alps Mr. Rzykruski Martin Landau The Ambassador by "The Bride of on sale now Elsa Winona Ryder The American Scream Frankenstein" and Arbitrage countless other classic Walt Disney Pictures presents a film Argo horror films in which directed by Tim Burton. Written by The Awakening science runs amok. John August, based on a script by The Babymakers Beloved Lenny Ripps and an original idea by The story takes place in a Bill W. familiar Burtonesque world Burton. Running time: 87 minutes. The Bourne Legacy of characters with balloon Rated PG (for thematic elements, The Campaign heads, saucer eyes and scary images and action). Celeste and Jesse Forever pretzel limbs. Seeing them Chasing Mavericks Buy now » in b&w only underlines their Chicken with Plums grotesquerie, and indeed Cloud Atlas the whole story benefits Compliance from the absence of color, Cosmopolis The Curators of Dixon School because this is a stark Printer-friendly » Detropia world without many E-mail this to a friend » Easy Money soothing tones. Burton uses End of Watch a stop-motion animation Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare method employing puppets, For a Good Time Call... 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