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Burn Your Maps

2016 · 102 min

A gentle, earnest journey through grief and imagination, with quirky warmth and a soul-searching adventure that feels both heartfelt and slightly offbeat.

Directed by: Jordan Roberts
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Jacob Tremblay, Suraj Sharma

Tagline: Sometimes you have to get lost to find your way home.
Overview: A family in emotional turmoil is taken by surprise in this quirky adventure where an eccentric 8-year-old American boy, Wes, has an existential epiphany - He believes that he is in fact a Mongolian goat herder.

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Directed by: Jordan Roberts
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Jacob Tremblay, Suraj Sharma

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Tone: earneststrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
family
identity
healing
coming-of-age
Places: road trip
countryside
wilderness
Era: contemporary
Audience: family
Form: true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	4
Realism	7
Romance	1
Tension	2
Darkness	3
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: adventure, comedy, drama, family
Directed by: Jordan Roberts
Written by: Jordan Roberts
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Jacob Tremblay, Suraj Sharma, Ramón Rodríguez, Virginia Madsen, Marton Csokas, Jason Scott Lee, Glynis Davies
Music: Jonathan Goldsmith
Cinematography: John Bailey
Runtime: 102 min
Country: Mongolia, United States of America
Languages: English

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