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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

Summary: A ten-year-old scientist secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother, escapes home, and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smit...
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: PG

Countries: France, Canada
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 33,000,000
Domestic: $ 173,564
International: $ 9,321,225
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