The Boxtrolls is a 2014 American stop motion animated fantasy comedy film loosely based on the 2005 novel Here Be Monsters!. Directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi, and produced by Laika, it features the voices of Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, Dee Bradley Baker, Steve Blum, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, Tracy Morgan, and Simon Pegg. Set in the fictional European country of Norvenia in the late 19th century, the film tells the story of Eggs, a human boy raised by trash-collecting trolls, known as "Boxtrolls", as he attempts to save them from a pest exterminator.
Production
company
Laika
Distributed by Focus Features (North America)
Universal Pictures (International)
Release Year:
2014 (US)
Running time 97 minutes[2]
Country United States
Language English
Budget $60 million[3]
Box office $108 million[4]
