His smarts also extend to the business world, which means that he has socked away a considerable amount of money for his feckless mother Susan (Naomi Watts), who works as a waitress and plays violent video games to let off steam.Īlso Read: Jacob Tremblay Will Make You Cry in First 'Wonder' Trailer (Video) Henry is responsible for protecting Peter, who often gets bullied, and he sees himself as a protector in general.Īs he makes a presentation for his school class, we can see that 11-year-old Henry is a precocious semi-adult who uses words like “existential” as if he knows their exact spelling, meaning and history.
“People are decent mostly,” says young Henry (Jaeden Lieberher) on the soundtrack as he shepherds his vulnerable brother Peter (Jacob Tremblay) onto a school bus. The opening credits - which are set to a gentle piano-based score by Michael Giacchino - show us intricate drawings in a book, and this seems to be the set-up for a film aimed at children. For this movie, Hurwitz has overlaid a dubious sort of vigilante-like thriller plot on top of a family comedy-drama, and this is a shame, because the family story is often the richer of the two. Gregg Hurwitz, the screenwriter behind “The Book of Henry,” is a writer of crime novels and thrillers.
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