Directed by : Jean-Pierre Jeunet <br />Produced by : Epithète Films, Tapioca Films <br />Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 1 h 46 min <br />French release: 16/10/2013 <br />Production year: 2013 <br /><br />T.S. Spivet lives with his parents, sister Gracie and brother Layton in a remote ranch in Montana. A little boy with a gift and a passion for science, he invents the machine of perpetual movement, which earns him the highly prestigious Baird Award from the Smithsonian Museum in Washington.<br /> After leaving a note to his family, he sets out alone to pick up the award, crossing the United States on a freight train.<br /> But no one in Washington ever imagined that the lucky winner is only ten years old and that he is hiding a very dark secret...<br /><br />More info: http://en.unifrance.org/movie/33450/the-young-and-prodigious-t-s-spivet