The House with a Clock in Its Walls (The House with a Clock in Its Walls)
Directed by: Eli RothCast list: Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro
Country: USA, Canada
Year: 2018
Genres: Comedy / Thriller / Fantasy /
Runtime: 105 min.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: English version with subtitles in Spanish
Lewis Barnavelt, after losing his parents, is sent to Michigan to live with his uncle Jonathan. He discovers his uncle is a warlock, and enters a world of magic and sorcery. But this power is not limited to good people: Lewis learns of Isaac Izard, an evil wizard who constructed a magical clock with black magic, as long as it exists it will keep ticking, counting down to doomsday. He died before he could finish the clock, but he hid the clock in his house, where Uncle Jonathan now lives. Now Lewis and Jonathan must find the clock before it finishes its countdown and ends the world
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Subjects: English language / Natural science and social sciences (Primary School) / Citizenship (Primary School) /
Topics: education in human values / human relations, psychology, sociology / family, family relationships / film adaptation of literary or graphic work /
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