A Wrinkle in Time
Year: 2003
Runtime: 128 mins
Language: English
Director: John Kent Harrison
To rescue their missing father, Meg Murry and her brother Charles Wallace join Calvin O'Keefe and three mysterious women who guide them across strange dimensions. Their search, sparked by his disappearance during a government experiment, takes them to otherworldly realms and ultimately forces them to save the universe.
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Meg Murry is having a difficult time. Her father, astrophysicist Dr. Jack Murry, has mysteriously disappeared. Her youngest brother, Charles Wallace, a genius, is teased and belittled and thought to be stupid because he does not talk to anyone but family. Meg does not get along with her peers, teachers, her 10-year-old twin brothers, or even with herself.
Into this unhappy situation comes a stranger, the mysterious, weirdly dressed Mrs. Whatsit, and her friends Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which. They take Meg, Charles Wallace, and their new friend Calvin O’Keefe via tesseract to other planets, preparing the children for a mission to rescue Dr. Murry from the malevolent “IT” on the planet Camazotz. Along the way they ride on the back of a beautiful winged creature (the transformed Mrs. Whatsit), learn about the shadow of tangible evil known as the Black Thing, and visit the Happy Medium, a cheerful and androgynous fortune-teller.
Once they reach Camazotz, however, it is up to Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace to face the dangers of CENTRAL Central Intelligence, aided only by each other and a pair of glasses from Mrs. Who. They do find and rescue Dr. Murry, but Charles Wallace is seduced away from his family by IT’s agent, the Man with Red Eyes, and thus comes under the control of IT. Dr. Murry manages to tesser himself, Meg and Calvin, away from Camazotz, but Charles Wallace is left behind, trapped in the mind of IT. Angry with her father, Calvin and herself for leaving Charles Wallace behind, Meg is cared for by the sightless and motherly Aunt Beast on the planet Ixchel and argues with Mrs. Which about returning to rescue her brother. Returning alone to Camazotz, Meg must find a quality in herself—love—to free Charles Wallace, and possibly free the planet Camazotz as well.
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