![]() ![]() The story kicks into gear when Carmody Braque (Timothy Spall), a soft-spoken loner who lives in the local rail yard, befriends Jacko, inviting him into the trailer where he stores his prize collection of dolls and stuffed animals. We glimpse them in the movie's early narrated sequences (which suggest a nonexistent Terrence Malick horror film) and in moments when she seems to communicate telepathically with a handsome but unnervingly intense classmate named Sorensen Carlisle ( Nicholas Galitzine). She has otherworldly powers, but they're undeveloped and largely unacknowledged by her. ![]() ![]() ![]() The heroine and narrator, Laura Chant ( Erana James), is a Christchurch, New Zealand teenager living with her single mother Kate ( Melanie Lynskey) and her adorable kid brother Jacko ( Benji Purchase) in the aftermath of an earthquake. ![]()
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