A Monster Calls
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- Release Date
- January 6, 2017
- Director
- J.A. Bayona
- Cast
- Lewis MacDougall , Sigourney Weaver , Felicity Jones , Toby Kebbell , Ben Moor , James Melville
- Runtime
- 108 minutes
- Main Genre
- Adventure
- Studio
- Focus Features, Lionsgate International
- Writers
- Patrick Ness , Siobhan Dowd
- Tagline
- Stories are wild creatures.
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