A Monster Calls

“Stories are wild creatures.”

Conor (Lewis MacDougall) is twelve, bullied at school, and watching his mother (Felicity Jones) get sicker while his strict Grandma (Sigourney Weaver) takes over the house. Then a giant yew tree walks up to his window and starts telling him stories. J. A. Bayona builds the film around a boy sitting with his mother's terminal illness, an ancient tree bending down toward his bedroom window.