Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a 2016 British-American dark fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, and written by Jane Goldman, based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Ransom Riggs. The film stars Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Chris O'Dowd, Allison Janney, Rupert Everett, Terence Stamp, Ella Purnell, Judi Dench and Samuel L. Jackson.

Filming began in February 2015 in London and the Tampa Bay Area. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas on September 25, 2016 and was theatrically released in the United States on September 30, 2016 by 20th Century Fox.^[4] It received mixed to positive reviews from critics and has grossed over $224 million worldwide, against a production budget of $110 million.

Initial release: September 29, 2016 (Indonesia)

Director: Tim Burton

Box office: 196.8 million USD

Budget: 110 million USD

Music director: Matthew Margeson, Michael Higham

Ratings

IMDb- 7.1/10

Rotten tomatoes- 64%

Mr. Man- 3/5

Plot

For years, Abraham "Abe" Portman (Terence Stamp) has told stories to his grandson, Jacob "Jake" Portman (Asa Butterfield) about his childhood spending part of World War II living at "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by the coast of Wales. The home's residents and their headmistress, Miss Alma LeFay Peregrine (Eva Green), possess unique abilities and are known as "Peculiars". When Jake receives a frantic phone call from his grandfather; he and his drugstore coworker and Shelly (O-Lan Jones) rush to Abe's house. In the woods behind the house, Jake finds his grandfather and tells Jake to find "the bird, the loop and September 3, 1943" before dying.

Following the advice of his psychiatrist, Dr. Golan (Allison Janney), Jake and his father Franklin (Chris O'Dowd) travel to Wales. Jake explores the island and finds out the children's home was destroyed during a Luftwaffe raid. As he explores, some of the Peculiar Children from Abe's stories greet him.

The children take Jake to their house, where Miss Peregrine greets him. She explains that she belongs to a class of Peculiars named "Ymbrynes" who have the power to transform into birds (in Miss Peregrine's case, a peregrine falcon) and manipulate time which is known as a time loop. Miss Peregrine has her loop permanently set to September 3, 1943 in which she and her children hide from the outside world.

Jake is introduced to the rest of the children, including Emma Bloom (Ella Purnell), an aerokinetic girl lighter than air, and necromancer Enoch O'Connor (Finlay MacMillan) (who's jealous of Jake, and also was of Abe). He learns like Abe, he's also a Peculiar who have the power of seeing these monsters. Miss Peregrine explains that those monsters, named "Hollowgasts" (or "Hollows"), are former normal Peculiar humans who were transformed after performing a failed experiment. Led by shapeshifter Mr. Barron (Samuel L. Jackson), they hunt Peculiars (and sometime Non-Peculiars) and consume their eyeballs enough to became "Wights", visible normal Peculiar humans but with glowing milky-white eyes.

As Emma is walking Jake back to his own time through the cave, they find a wounded avocet bird named Miss Esmeralda Avocet (Judi Dench). Emma takes her to the children's home. Jake discovers a letter from Abe revealing that Mr. Barron is stalking a time loop at a seaside carnival at Blackpool, England in 2016 created by Miss Avocet. She reveals later to Miss Peregrine, Jake and the children that Barron raided her loop, killed her children and is trying to repeat his experiment with even more Ymbrynes.

Back in 2016, Jake realizes that a hollow might be close when a flock of sheep mysteriously dies. Jake goes to warn his friends that a Hollow is close. But, he's followed by another visitor on the island, an ornithologist named John Lemmon (Rupert Everett) who goes through the loop with him. The birdwatcher transforms himself into Dr. Golan and reveals that she is Mr. Barron. He tried to get from Abe information about Miss Peregrine’s loop, but his Hollow companion Mr. Malthus (the Hollow is supposedly on the island) knocked out Abe before he could answer. He posed as Dr. Golan and encouraged Jake to visit the island, hoping he would guide him to the loop. Taking Jake as a hostage, Barron forces Miss Peregrine to come with him and leaves the children, Jake and Miss Avocet.

Malthus arrives and kills Miss Avocet, but Jake and all the children escape just as the Luftwaffe raid destroys the house and kills Malthus (since he's from an earlier timeline from when he killed Abe, this erases Abe's death from the future). Without Miss Peregrine the loop closes, leaving the children and Jake in 1943. Jake and the children travel on a sunken cruiser to Blackpool to rescue Miss Peregrine. They use their abilities to fight and kill Barron's Hollow and Wight accomplices, accompanied by a skeleton army led by Enoch. Jake frees Miss Peregrine and the other captive Ymbrynes. Barron tries to pose as Jake to confuse the children, but when the last remaining Hollow arrives, Jake avoids the Hollow, which kills Barron, which is then in turn killed by Jake.

Jake says goodbye to the children and returns to the present world in Florida, relenting his adventures to Abe who is now alive and well. Abe gives him a map of time loops all over the world, so he can find his friends again.