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Actors: Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Matthew McCurley, Jon Lovitz
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about North |
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High-achieving 11-year-old North is frustrated by the lack of attention from his busy, self-absorbed parents. It seems everyone admires North's exceptional qualities except them. One day he has the brilliant idea of replacing them with a more appreciative pair, and encouraged by his journalistic schoolmate Winchell he engages a lawyer. An eccentric judge allows the proposal, but warns him to either find new parents or return to his own parents before Labor Day, or face the orphanage. He has two months, and bagloads of candidates, thanks to widespread media interest.
North travels all over America and the world, encountering assorted absurd regional stereotypes. The first parental candidates, rich flashy Texans wanting to replace their very large dead son, ply North with food and luxuries, but he doesn't want to live in anyone's shadow. In Hawaii, the Governor and his wife want to use him as a poster boy. In Alaska he is shocked by Eskimo customs. Wherever he goes, China, Zaire, France, New York, he is discontented. A variety of characters, all played by Bruce Willis, appear to advise him.
Meanwhile the increasingly sinister Winchell has started an independence-for-kids movement inspired by North. It is astonishingly successful. His political ambitions are boundless, and dependent on North never returning home.
--Maureen Evans, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of North |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Parent(s) gone?
- Orphan story
Age group
- trouble in grade school
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- a kid
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- a kid
Profession/status:
- journalist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) skinny
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Texas
- Alaska
- Hawaii
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If this is a kid's movie...
- Ages 10-15
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