Captain Fantastic

Directed by matt ross.

Captain fantastic. Starring viggo mortensen frank langella george mackay. Captain fantastic joins the fraternity of independent movies that rework the tradition of the family film. Captain fantastic s thought provoking themes and an absorbing starring turn from viggo mortensen add up to an above average family drama with unexpected. Captain fantastic is a powerful weepie with a career high turn from viggo mortensen as a hippy father driving his six children to the funeral of their mother.

In the forests of the pacific northwest a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent. Captain fantastic was not an album filled with multiple hit singles but rather a record filled with personal poetic lyricism ingenious melodies and production that defined the work of a master artistic team comprising of elton john bernie taupin gus dudgeon davey johnston nigel olsen and the late dee murray. The story centers on a family that is forced by circumstances to reintegrate into society after living in isolation for a decade. Captain fantastic is a 2016 american comedy drama film written and directed by matt ross and starring viggo mortensen frank langella kathryn hahn and steve zahn.

The journey is the destination captain fantastic joins other great films in which the inspiring landscape outside sets the course for the journey inward. Captain fantastic 2 403 imdb 7 9 2h 2016 x ray r an unconventional father is forced to leave his self created paradise and bring his family into society for the first time. Captain fantastic 201616 1h 59maward winning films a father raising his children off the grid begins to question his anti establishment utopian views when a tragic loss pulls them back into society.