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They sleep in the house. The next morning, they try to escape on foot, but consistently return to number 9. They find a box of tasteless vacuum-packed food in front of the house. Tom sets fire to the house and they sleep on the pavement. When they awake another box has been left, containing an infant
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The Boy matures to resemble a young adult and Tom becomes ill. The Boy leaves each day and Gemma tries to follow it but always finds herself back at number 9. Tom continues to dig and finds a corpse in a vacuum bag. The Boy locks Gemma and Tom out of the house and they sleep in the car. Gemma pleads
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Tom locks The Boy in their car, thinking if someone comes for it they could force them to free them. However, Gemma takes pity and releases The Boy. Tom continues digging and begins sleeping in the hole. One day The Boy goes missing and returns with a book of symbols and diagrams of humanoids with
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98 days later, the infant is the size of a ten year-old boy. It mimics Tom and Gemma and shrieks when it wants food. When it calls Gemma "Mother", she insists that she is not its mother, while Tom refers to The Boy as "it". Gemma and Tom wait in the garden with a pickaxe to attack whoever delivers
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She lands back in number 9, weak and moaning. The Boy is cleaning the house. He carries her to a vacuum bag explaining that mothers die after raising their sons. She dies as he zips her in. The Boy buries her with Tom, and the grass reforms over the defect. He then drives back to the real estate
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chick ejected from its nest. They drive to meet with real estate agent Martin and follow him to a suburban development of identical houses called Yonder. Martin shows them around house number 9. He asks if they have children, and when Gemma replies, "No, not yet", he mimics her perfectly. After
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office, where an aged Martin lies dying. Martin gives The Boy his name tag and dies. The Boy zips Martin into a vacuum bag, staples a receipt to it, and then puts it into a garbage chute disguised as a file drawer. When a couple walks in the door, The Boy greets them just as Martin did.
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Gemma wounds The Boy with the pickaxe. The Boy hisses and crawls into a labyrinth under the sidewalk. Gemma follows and crashes through a door into multiple rooms in other houses with more Boys and several strangers, one of whom has died by suicide.
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looking around the garden they find Martin has vanished. Attempting to leave, they repeatedly find themselves back at number 9. They drive around the endless, identical streets until they run out of fuel.
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acquired US and UK distribution rights, respectively. It was released in the United States, UK and Ireland on 27 March 2020, with a limited theatrical release and video-on-demand release the same day.
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the food, but they never see anyone. Tom begins digging a hole in the garden and becomes withdrawn. In the living room, The Boy watches fractal-like patterns on the television.
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with The Boy for medicine for Tom but it replies, "Maybe it's time he was released". Tom dies and The Boy zips him into a vacuum bag and throws it into the hole.
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directed by Lorcan Finnegan, from a story by Finnegan and Garret Shanley. An international co-production between Ireland, Denmark, and Belgium, it stars
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may confound almost as often as it intrigues, but this well-acted sci-fi/horror hybrid has interesting ideas—and explores them with style". On
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has an approval rating of 72% based on 149 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "
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score of 64 out of 100 based on reviews from 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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and the message, "Raise the child and be released". When the smoke clears, the house is undamaged.
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before introducing primary school teacher Gemma and her landscaper boyfriend Tom. He buries a dead
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had joined the cast. It was shot in locations in Belgium and Ireland before moving to
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In May 2018, it was announced that Lorcan Finnegan would direct
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on 18 May 2019, and was released in Ireland on 27 March 2020 by
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from a story he co-wrote with Garret Shanley, and that
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Index

Lorcan Finnegan

John McDonnell
Brendan McCarthy
Imogen Poots
Jesse Eisenberg
MacGregor
Kristian Eidnes Andersen
XYZ Films
Fantastic Films
VOO
BeTV
Vertigo Releasing
Cannes
science fiction
psychological thriller film
Imogen Poots
Jesse Eisenberg
Jonathan Aris
Éanna Hardwicke
Cannes Film Festival
Vertigo Releasing
humanoid
vivarium
brood parasitism
cuckoo
altricial
throat sacs
Imogen Poots
Jesse Eisenberg

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