The Boy With the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

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The Boy With the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

PG

2014

1h 34m

Kids & Family

Adventure

Drama

Fantasy

Musical

Romance

Animation

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A man (Orlando Seale) with a timepiece for a heart ignores warnings that he must never fall in love after he spies a beautiful singer (Samantha Barks).

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Charles Solomon

Los Angeles Times

"Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart" stubbornly remains less than the sum of its parts. But its rich visual imagery suggests the talented artists involved could create something exciting and truly original if they had a better script.

Sep 23, 2014

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Rob Humanick

Slant Magazine

The film is at once enabled and hindered by its utter strangeness, an intrinsic quality surely exacerbated in its English-language release.

Rated: 2.5/4

Sep 21, 2014

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Peter Debruge

Variety

Malzieu has created a fully-realized, wildly imaginative storybook world and populated it with eccentric characters.

Mar 17, 2014

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Rachel Wagner

rachelsreviews.net

In spite of problems I still enjoyed watching it.

Rated: C

May 2, 2019

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Craig Mathieson

The Sunday Age

The story is scratchy, and Malzieu's songs don't always translate well, but the visual aesthetic is tactile and sublime.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 7, 2018

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Tim Brayton

Alternate Ending

Learned all the right lessons from early Tim Burton, concocting a whole world full of distorted, horrific visions and treating them with unadulterated, unapologetic joy.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 28, 2017

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Emalíne C

This movie was a fever dream I was visually assaulted over 20 different times. I hate the French now and I will never be able to leave my country out of fear of witnessing something as visually scarring as this movie. I wish I had amnesia so I wouldn't have to have traumatic flashbacks of Jack the ripper chasing a 14 year old ginger British boy. To anyone who says this movie is appealing or reminded of their child hood I have good psychiatric wards I can reccomend. I will have ptsd of this day forever, I literally got an account just to warn you.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/13/25

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Madelyn V

I think this movie is really good I love the visuals and the songs

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/30/24

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Daniela M

This movie is amazing from the storyline to the animation and heartbreaking story of love , I highly recommend this movie it entirely deserves more recognition for its amazing characters and unique sense of aesthetic!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/23/24

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Lucas M

Maravilhoso, uma obra de perfeição com um drama que faz chorar ao mesmo tempo, ficar triste e feliz, esse filme transmite um mix de emoções

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/14/24

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Ghost G

Open up your mind a little, and you’ll see the romantic magic of this film. Stunning imagery and surprisingly thrilling moments.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/11/24

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Cindy H

its kind of tim burton-y with steampunk elements. love the music in the movie, its one of my favorite things about the movie! but just so you know, this movie doesn't have a happy ending

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

06/21/22

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Stéphane Berla

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Orlando Seale

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Samantha Barks

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Anna

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Synopsis

A man (Orlando Seale) with a timepiece for a heart ignores warnings that he must never fall in love after he spies a beautiful singer (Samantha Barks).

Director: Stéphane Berla, Mathias Malzieu
Producer: Luc Besson, Jeremy Burdek, Nadia Khamlichi, Adrian Politowski
Screenwriter: Mathias Malzieu
Distributor: Dada Films, The Film Collective
Rating: PG (Some Language|Smoking|Scary Images|Suggestive Material)
Genre: Kids & Family, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 24, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 5, 2016
Runtime: 1h 34m

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