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Captain Fantastic (2016)

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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.

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Ben
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Bo
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Kielyr
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Vespyr
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Rellian
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Zaja
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Nai
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Harper
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Justin
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Claire
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Ben and Leslie Cash have long lived largely off the grid with their offspring - Bodevan, Kielyr, Vespyr, Rellian, Zaja and Nai - in a cabin in the mountains of Washington state. The parents have passed their ideals to their children, namely socialism (in its various forms) and survivalism. With the former, Ben considers most of western society as being fascist, especially corporate America. With the latter, he figures that no one will or should be there for you, so you better learn how to take care of yourself in all its aspects. As such, the children have been subject to vigorous physical training, know how to deal with minor bumps, bruises, cuts, sprains and even fractures, and know how to hunt, forage and grow their own food. The children are also non-registered home schooled, meaning that they have no official academic records. Ben and Leslie have tried to make the children critical thinkers, however within the context of their ideals. Beyond these issues, Ben and Leslie made the ... Written by Huggo

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Family values. Power to the people. Stick it to the man. See more »

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Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Rated R for language and brief graphic nudity | See all certifications »

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29 July 2016 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Capitán Fantástico  »

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Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$93,824 (USA) (8 July 2016)

Gross:

$5,875,006 (USA) (21 October 2016)
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Trivia

Viggo Mortenson's crazy, awesome, red-patterned shirt that he's wearing in the funeral scene of Captain Fantastic is the same shirt he wore in the 1992 movie Indian Runner of which snippets were used in the Bruce Springsteen music video for the song "Highway Patrolman" (1982). In the video, Mortensen plays the bad luck, no good brother of the highway patrolman. See more »

Goofs

After Rellian goes to live with his grandparents, Ben's daughter daughter hurts herself climbing the roof, Ben takes the kids to their grandparents house to live as a result. On screen, Rellian enters with them as Ben leads them all in, suggesting he's never been there before. This is inaccurate, since Rellian had already been living there at this point. See more »

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Ben: Go talk to them. We got time.
Bo: Ask her what she thinks of the working people creating an armed revolution against the exploiting classes and their state structures?
Ben: Well, Marxists can be just as genocidal as capitalists.
Bo: Or weather or not she's a dialectical materialist and accords primacy to the class struggle?
Ben: Avoid Marxism. Or telling her you're a Trotskyite.
Bo: Trotskyist. Only a Stalinist would call a Trotskyist a Trotskyite. And I'm not a Trotskyist anymore. I'm a Maoist.
Ben: Right. I forgot, ...
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El Hilo De Ariadna
Written by Viggo Mortensen and George MacKay
Performed by Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso, Nicholas Hamilton, Shree Crooks, and Charlie Shotwell
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This is a movie for every generation. It needs to be noticed, it deserves to be talked about, and discussed.
17 August 2016 | by (Subotica, Serbia) – See all my reviews

Aesthetically on high-level, questioning the most important points of human life and importance of verbal, mental, physical, social, emotional development and the inability of developing them all on the same level. There are so many factors that influence one's development. And there is space for many mistakes.

High quality acting. Viggo Mortensen gives one of his best performances, a devoted father that wants only the best for his kids, an authority, a leader, a teacher, loving, loyal husband, a grieving human with tough, determined, honest attitude he transmits to his children. Kids, from the youngest to the oldest, act with such naturalness that you simply dive in this masterfully-made journey.

Film doesn't show how one should live and not live because both sides are flawed. Internal and external conflicts make you question the reality of the present, giving you space to find your own balance of how one should live.

I personally started thinking of how there is a massive space for improvement in every field of our lives. An example is school. And how devastating it is that one could neglect the knowledge at that extant. Kids need to be inspired and motivated to learn. And more important is that they have to build inner-motivation that will make them interested and ambitious as they improve the world around them. And of course kids can't be accused for not wanting to learn if the teachers don't show them how and why to love their subject. And of course parents to support them.

This (above) is just one point of where this movie has taken my entranced mind.

This is a movie for every generation. It needs to be noticed, it deserves to be talked about, and discussed. Because that is the point of Captain Fantastic.


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