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Bookworm (2024)

Directed by Ant Timpson

Overview

Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to look after her.  Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged New Zealand wilderness, and the pair embark on the ultimate test of family bonding – a quest to find the mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.

Length 103 minutes

Actors

Elijah Wood | Nell Fisher | Michael Smiley | Vanessa Stacey | Morgana O'Reilly | Millen Baird | Nikki Si'ulepa | Theo Shakes