Super 8 Movie Cover

Super 8

PG-13, 2011, Paramount Pictures

Director:

J.J. Abrams

Starring:

Noah Emmerich, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Gabriel Basso, Joel Courtney, Riley Griffiths, Ron Eldard

Plot:

In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.

1

Accident leaves son grieving loss of mother

Themes: Father-Son, Grief, Loss, Mother-Son, Parenting, Raising Children, Tragedy, Unexpected

2

Actress' emotional scene makes boys cry

Themes: Communication, Emotions, Feelings, Words

3

Teens run for lives from train derailment

Themes: Danger, Disaster, Helplessness, Terror

4

Sheriff refuses to hear deputy's suspicions

Themes: Belief, Doubt, Listening, Truth, Unbelievers

5

Man believes radio "slippery slope" for youth

Themes: Parenting, Sin, Teen Issues

6

Boy watches videos of dead mother

Themes: Mother-Son, Motherhood, Mother's Care

7

Boy empathizes with suffering alien

Themes: Compassion, Storms of Life, Suffering, Understanding

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