Moonrise Kingdom

Story: Pre teens, Sam and Suzy, run away from home, fall in love and decide to eventually settle down in marriage. Back home it's time for some crazy search missions and rescue operations.

Movie Review: The year is 1965. The place is the island of New Penzance where paved roads do not exist. And the lovers in question are two adolescents, still immature, still growing up. And that is what makes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom different.

Though in the earlier years of teen-dom, Sam and Suzy do everything that perhaps a grown up, madly in love, duo would. They talk of sweet nothings. They dream of settling down in no man's land. They read poetry and tales to one another. And bringing life to all this drama -- not for a single moment does all that teen-turned-adult philosophies and ideologies look comic -- are the performance by the leads, Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward. The two bring out the stupidity of teen life ... and the over carefulness of adulthood with ease. In fact, the two make adolescence, growing up and first love seem like cakewalk.

Now, for the fun part. It's out and out situational. Because back home, searching for the two eloped lovers, are a whole lot of people -- Suzy's family, Sam's foster parents (who incidentally are not interested in his whereabouts), the neighbours, the social workers (who think the two need electric shocks to overcome absurdity in behaviour), the Khaki scouts of North America lead by scoutmaster Master Ward (Edward Norton), and of course, the well under-played, island cop, Captain Sharp (Bruce Willis).

Just make sure you follow Wes Anderson pretty well to get the idea bang on.