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Burn Your Maps

Burn Your Maps

Adventure · Comedy · Drama · 2016

A family in emotional turmoil is taken by surprise in this quirky adventure where an eccentric 8-year-old American boy, Wes, has an existential epiphany - He believes that he is in fact a Mongolian goat herder.

Movie details

Burn Your Maps

“Sometimes you have to get lost to find your way home.”

2016 Adventure · Comedy · Drama 1h 42m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

7.1 / 10

Community rating

A family in emotional turmoil is taken by surprise in this quirky adventure where an eccentric 8-year-old American boy, Wes, has an existential epiphany - He believes that he is in fact a Mongolian goat herder.

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What this film says about your taste.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Jordan Roberts

Written by

Jordan Roberts

Vera Farmiga

Vera Farmiga

Alise Firth

Jacob Tremblay

Jacob Tremblay

Wes Firth

Suraj Sharma

Suraj Sharma

Ismail

Ramón Rodríguez

Ramón Rodríguez

Batbayar

Virginia Madsen

Virginia Madsen

Victoria

Marton Csokas

Marton Csokas

Connor Firth

Jason Scott Lee

Jason Scott Lee

Shaman Helper

Court is in session

Put Burn Your Maps on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.