You will be instantly enchanted by this quirky and delightful tale about the power of dreaming and the triumph of the underdog. Nine-year-old Christmas Flint (played with panache by Mckenna Grace) is a girl who revels in her nerdy love for all things space and alien related. When she discovers the prize for the 1977 Birdie Jamboree is getting to be a part of a voice recording that will be sent to space as part of NASA's Golden Record initiative, she sets her sights on winning that intergalactic immortality. The problem is there’s no way the Birdie leader at her school, Miss Massey (Oscar-winner Allison Janney), would let her join the annoyingly perfect troop. With the help of her dad (Jim Gaffigan) and his assistant (Oscar-winner Viola Davis), Christmas forms her own misfit troop of outcasts who’ll stop at nothing to be the best Birdies they can be. With a screenplay by Lucy Alibar (Beasts of the Southern Wild) and direction by the dynamic duo Bert & Bertie, you’ll want to grab
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Section: | #tween |
Release Year: | 2019 |
Runtime: | 97 min. |
Premiere Status: | Midwest Premiere |
Rating: | PG |
Production Country: | USA |
Original Language: | English |
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Director: | Bert&Bertie |
Produced by: | Todd Black |
| Jason Blumenthal |
| Steve Tisch |
| Alex Siskin |
| Viola Davis |
Screenwriter: | Lucy Alibar |
Cinematography: | James Whitaker |
Editing By: | Catherine Haight |
Music By: | Rob Lord |
Cast: | Allison Janney |
| Mckenna Grace |
| Viola Davis Jim Gaffigan |