Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The boy / STX Entertainment, Lakeshore Entertainment and Huayi Brothers Pictures present ; a Lakeshore Entertainment and STX Entertainment production in association with Vertigo Entertainment ; producers, Jim Wedaa, Roy Lee, Matt Berenson ; produced by Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright ; written by Stacey Menear ; directed by William Brent Bell.

Publisher, Date:

Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, [2016]

Description:

1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Greta is a young American woman who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, only to discover that the family's eight-year-old is a life-sized doll that the parents care for just like a real boy, as a way to cope with the death of their actual son twenty years prior. After violating a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring Greta's worst nightmare to life, leading her to believe that the doll is actually alive.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: PG-13; for violence and terror, and for some thematic material.

Subjects:

Dolls -- Drama.

Children -- Death -- Drama.

Babysitters -- England -- Drama.

Genre:

Horror films.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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