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The Games Maker (2014)

The Games Maker poster
Original title
El inventor de juegos
Directed by
Juan Pablo Buscarini
Genre
adventure film, speculative fiction film, children's film
Country
Argentina, Italy, Canada
Runtime
1h 51m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 78 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young boy who loves inventing board games finds a mysterious piece of a puzzle that changes his town. He meets a man who is chasing after him.

whimsicalmysteriousplayfulmildly suspensefulfamily-friendlyhopefulimaginativelighthearted

What happens

The Games Maker (Spanish: El inventor de juegos) is a 2014 Argentine-Canadian family adventure film co-written and directed by Juan Pablo Buscarini and starring Joseph Fiennes, Tom Cavanagh, Megan Charpentier, Valentina Lodovini, Robert Verlaque, Ed Asner, and introducing David Mazouz in his film debut. It tells the story of an aspiring board game inventor who stumbles upon the missing piece of the town's jigsaw puzzle and an encounter with the man who is pursuing him. The film was met with mixed reviews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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