After falling in love via pen-pal letters, Sam and Suzy decide to escape their emotionally absent guardians. They flee into the island’s dense, rain-swept wilderness. This triggers a massive storm—both meteorological and emotional—as the local police (Bruce Willis), the scout leader (Edward Norton), and Suzy’s parents (Bill Murray and Frances McDormand) scramble to find them before a catastrophic hurricane hits.
The film contrasts the pure, serious idealism of Sam and Suzy’s romance with the messy, compromised lives of the adults searching for them. Moonrise Kingdom
Anderson, along with co-writer Roman Coppola, wastes no time establishing the film’s central metaphor: life is a map, and the children are drawing their own lines. Sam is an orphan, abandoned by his foster parents mid-film for being "troubled." Suzy is a latent fury, ignored by her emotionally detached lawyer parents (Bill Murray and Frances McDormand) who are too consumed by their own quiet infidelities to notice their daughter reading fantasy novels on the roof. After falling in love via pen-pal letters, Sam
The "look" of Moonrise Kingdom is instantly recognizable, characterized by a dominant palette of muted yellows and warm oranges. The film contrasts the pure, serious idealism of
Moonrise Kingdom is a 2012 coming-of-age film directed by Wes Anderson