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Where the Wild Things Are Movie

Where the Wild Things Are Movie

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Max misbehaves and argues with his mother (Catherine Keener) after she invites her boyfriend over for dinner -- a plot detail added by JOnze and his co-writer, novelist Dave Eggers. Maxs takes off and his imagination leads him to his Wild Things refuge. "Standing on the table and yelling as loud as I can was one of the relatively fun things I got to do," says the actor Max, who is 11 now, but was 9 when he appeared in the film. "It's not something that I am normally encouraged to do."