Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
- sibling relationship
- parent child relationship
- elves
- fairy
- twin brother
- family relationships
- single mother
- twins
- alternative reality
- father daughter reunion
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Freddie Highmore
Jared Grace / Simon Grace
Sarah Bolger
Mallory Grace
David Strathairn
Arthur Spiderwick
Mary-Louise Parker
Helen Grace
- Nick Nolte — Mulgarath
- Joan Plowright — Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick
- Andrew McCarthy — Richard Grace
- Seth Rogen — Hogsqueal (voice)
- Martin Short — Thimbletack (voice)
- Jordy Benattar — Young Lucinda Spiderwick
- Lise Durocher-Viens — Mrs. Spiderwick
- Tod Fennell — Helen's Co-Worker
- Mariah Inger — Nurse
- Jeremy Lavalley — Tow Truck Driver
- Kyle Switzer — Additional Performer
- Directed
- Mark Waters
- Written
- John Sayles, Karey Kirkpatrick, David Berenbaum
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 2,935 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Nickelodeon Movies
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
