Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

I had not really heard of this movie when it was released, but found it as I perused iTunes. I am glad that I found it because it is charming movie that is well acted. It stars Thomas Horn (Oskar Schell), Tom Hanks (Thomas Schell), and Sandra Bullock (Linda Schell). How can you go wrong with such a cast.

Extremely Lound & Incredibly Close is a story of young, possibly autistic, boy, Oskar, who loses his father on 9/11. His father owned a jewelry store in Manhattan and on any given day would normally have been at work in his store, but was attending a meeting in the WTC on 9/11. On the first anniversary of 9/11, the boy wanders into his father's bedroom closet, which his mother had left unchanged after 9/11, and finds a key in a vase. Oskar decides to find the lock that this key fits because he believes that it be a message to him from his father.