Monster Calls, A

When an angry, distraught, bullied, artistic, 12-year-old British student (Lewis MacDougall), who has a strained relationship with his well-meaning grandmother (Sigourney Weaver) and his remarried father (Toby Kebbell) who lives in Los Angeles, tries to cope with the impending death of his beloved, terminally ill mother (Felicity Jones) in this extremely touching, riveting, heartbreaking, tear-inducing, superbly acted, imaginative, 108-minute film based on Patrick Ness's 2011 novel and highlighted by amazing cinematography and terrific special effects, he is plagued with disturbing nightmares and then visited by a gargantuan tree monster (voiceover by Liam Neeson) that tries to support him and help him heal through three stories at 12:06 AM.
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