Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)

Movie Synopsis:
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.

Release Date	:	Sep 28, 2016
Runtime	:	127 minutes
Genres	:	Fantasy
Production Company	:	Chernin Entertainment, Tim Burton Productions, Scope Pictures,Bulletproof Cupid, St. Petersburg Clearwater Film Commission
Production Countries	:	United States of America
Casts	:	Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Chris O'Dowd, Allison Janney, Rupert Everett, Terence Stamp, Ella Purnell, Judi Dench, Samuel L. Jackson, Callum Wilson, Kim Dickens
Plot Keywords	:	orphan, superpower

Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children

When Jacob Portman was young, his grandfather, Abraham, told him that he had lived in a special orphanage for peculiar children run by Miss Peregrine. As Jacob grows older, he doubts the stories until he visits his dying grandfather and sees a strange, humanoid creature only he can see. Abraham tells Jacob to “… find the bird in the loop on the other side of the old man’s grave on September 1940, and tell them what happened.” No one believes Jacob’s account of an invisible monster with tentacle-like tongues. His parents take him to Dr. Golan, a psychiatrist, who suggests that Jacob go to Wales, the location of his grandfather’s orphanage. Jacob finds the orphanage deserted, so he seeks information from the local people, including workers at the Cairnholm Museum.

Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children

During another search of the orphanage, Jacob encounters a mysterious girl whom he follows and questions. They reach the bogs before Jacob realizes that the inn and people are now different. The drunken patrons at the pub are suspicious and chase Jacob. The girl, Emma Bloom, and an invisible boy named Millard Nillings rescue Jacob and escape to Miss Peregrine’s orphanage. There Jacob is introduced to other children with peculiarities. Bronwyn has amazing strength and Claire Densmore has a mouth at the back of her head. Emma and Millard tell Jacob they exist in a time loop, reliving the same day forever because of Miss Peregrine. Miss Peregrine says she is a Ymbrynes who can create time loops. She also explains that hollowgasts — humanoid, tentacle-mouthed creatures like the one that killed Jacob’s grandfather — are a threat to all Ymbryne-run orphanages. Miss Peregrine explains that Jacob, like his grandfather, has the ability to see and stop the hollowgasts.

Jacob notices that the peculiar children use their powers to entertain crowds. He meets Enoch, who uses hearts from other creatures to temporarily prolong someone’s life. Jacob and Enoch discover Victor dead in his bed, killed by a hollowgast. The wights, who have evolved from hollowgasts, hunger for power from the peculiars. Jacob, Emma, Bronwyn, Enoch, and Millard go into an ice house where a deceased man, Martin, lies inside a lidless ice coffin. Enoch uses a sheep heart to briefly bring Martin back to life. Martin tells them that a wight killed him. A wight then turns up behind them and reveals that he is Dr. Golan. Jacob decides to stay in the time loop so that he and his companions can escape from Dr. Golan. They make their way back to the orphanage, but discover that Dr. Golan has kidnapped Miss Peregrine.