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City of Ember (2008)
Director: Gil Kenan
Movie review
From Time Out Chicago
A dystopian YA morality tale with the emotional and narrative heft of the Harry Potter series (plus a pleasantly scrappy Rankin/Bass vibe), City of Ember has enough heart to make up for the cheapness of its CGI milieu. Plotwise, the film amounts to little more than a video game–like puzzle, but by positing an aging underground culture shaking off its entrenchment via young upstarts (tween saviors Treadaway and Ronan), it makes a convincing and (unintentionally?) timely case for, well, change.Author: Mark Holcomb
Time Out Chicago Issue 190: October 16–22, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: Gil Kenan
Cast: Bill Murray, Harry Treadaway, Saoirse Ronan, Liz Smith, MacKenzie Crook, Martin Landau, Mary Kay Place, Tim Robbins full cast
Genre(s): Fantasy
Rated: PG
Duration: 95 mins
US Release: Oct 10 2006
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