Where the Wild Things Are

Jonze’s next movie, Where the Wild Things Are (2009), was an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book. He then helmed the technological romance Her (2013), which featured Joaquin Phoenix as a lonely writer who falls in love with a sentient computer operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson.…

…film version of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are was released concurrently with Eggers’s novelization of the screenplay, which he had cowritten with director Spike Jonze. The movie and book are loose adaptations of Sendak’s original, inspired as much by its wistful beauty and loving approach to the child…

… was notably adapted into a 2009 movie that was directed by Spike Jonze, who also cowrote the script with David Eggers, and it featured James Gandolfini as one of the wild things.

…In the Loop (2009); and Where the Wild Things Are (2009), an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s children’s book.

…one of the monsters in Where the Wild Things Are (2009). O’Hara later teamed up once again with Levy for the popular television series Schitt’s Creek (2015–20), about a wealthy family that loses its money and is forced to live in the titular small town; for her portrayal of the…