Brand Upon The Brain!

– Together with his teenage sister and a horde of orphans, young Guy Maddin lazes away his under-stimu..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.40 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 35 Minutes
Release Year:
2006
Brand Upon The Brain!
Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)

Together with his teenage sister and a horde of orphans, young Guy Maddin lazes away his under-stimulated youth on the mysterious island he will someday inherit. In the lighthouse orphanage in which they all live, their every move is watched over by their overbearing and tyrannical mother while their father, a scientist and inventor, works away secretively in the basement. When new adoptive parents discover mysterious head wounds on their children, teen detectives Wendy and Chance Hale - brother and sister sleuths known as the "Lightbulb Kids" - visit the island to launch an investigation. As the investigation progresses, the kids are led into the darkest regions of revelation and repression as the terrible secrets of Guy's family are revealed.

Release Date:

24 Sep 2008

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
Not Rated

Directed by:
Plot:

Guy Maddin reluctantly returns to his childhood home, an abandoned Canadian island, where his parents ran an orphanage. As Guy fulfills his dying mother's request to paint the lighthouse which served as the orphanage, memories of strange events there overpower him. An undercover investigation by child author/detective Wendy & a revolt by the repressed children, blew open a cover-up by Guy's parents. Wendy disguised herself as her brother Chance and discovered that Maddin's inventor father performed outré scientific experiments on the orphans.

Awards:

3 nominations.

Gross profit:

$201,013

Production Company:
Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
Metacritic:
79%

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