2017 Academy Award® Nominee
Thursday, February 9 | 5:30 pm
Produced by artisanal stop-motion powerhouse, Laika Studios (Coraline), and featuring engaging vocal performances from Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey, Kubo and the Two Strings follows kind-hearted Kubo and his animal guardians—a stern snow monkey and a scatterbrained beetle—as they to embark on a quest to recover his late father’s magical Samurai armor and break a long-standing family curse. Drawing on traditional Japanese mythology, the film spins a classic coming-of-age yarn that combines a rousing adventure full of courage and cleverness, with an unexpectedly moving testament to the transforming power of familial love. Nominated for two Academy Awards® for Best Animated Feature and Best Visual Effects, Kubo and the Two Strings demonstrates a painstaking commitment to the delicate craft of stop-motion animation that can be felt in the lyrical beauty of its images, and in the abundant details and rich textures that suffuse every frame.
Director Travis Knight 2016 USA 101 minutes PG (for thematic elements, scary images, action and peril)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4-6qJzeb3A
