Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024)

Directed by

Carlos Saldanha

Genre

comedy film, fantasy film, family film, live-action/animated film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 374 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A character from a children's book uses a magic crayon to bring his drawings to life. He steps into the real world and must learn how to handle ordinary life.

whimsicallightheartedplayfuladventurousfunnycolorfulsweet

What happens

Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 2024 American live-action animated fantasy comedy film directed by Carlos Saldanha in his live-action directorial debut, from a screenplay by David Guion and Michael Handelman, based on the 1955 children's book by Crockett Johnson. Combining live-action and animation, the film stars Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Benjamin Bottani, Jemaine Clement, Tanya Reynolds, Alfred Molina, and Zooey Deschanel. In the film, after he draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds that he has a lot to learn about real life. Produced by John Davis through Davis Entertainment, the film premiered at Culver City in Los Angeles on July 21, 2024, and was released in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing through its Columbia Pictures label on August 2. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing $32.2 million against a $40 million production budget. It received a Golden Raspberry Award nomination, Worst Actor for Levi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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