The Boxtrolls (2014)

2014 · 97 min · Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy

An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.

Directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi. Starring Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, Dee Bradley Baker and Toni Collette.

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