The Amazing Maurice Showtimes Near Mary Pickford Theatre (2025)

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What is the plot of The Amazing Maurice? ›

Maurice is a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of self-taught talking rats. When Maurice and the rodents meet a bookworm called Malicia, their little con soon goes down the drain.

The Amazing Maurice / Film synopsis

While page-to-screen adaptations of Terry Pratchett's work have been mixed at best, this fun-packed animation captures the magic that appeals on multiple levels to kids and adults alike. The Amazing Maurice offers a touch of social commentary along with warm, funny characters and rollicking adventure.

No, The Amazing Maurice will not be on Netflix — at least not any time soon. In the meantime, you'll just have to head out to theaters or wait for it to become available on digital platforms.

The Amazing Maurice had its premiere at the Manchester Animation Festival on 13 November 2022, and was released in the United Kingdom on 16 December, by Sky Cinema. It was released on 3 February 2023 by Viva Pictures in the United States.

As Clive goes on to completely reject Maurice by marrying out of need instead of from desire, and Maurice finds solace in the hands of a lower-class gamekeeper, “Maurice's” message grew broader: If you can live a life without the intoxication of passion, you don't know who you are.

The story is quite complex and dark in places, so the movie isn't suitable for children under 6 years. We also recommend parental guidance children aged 6-7 years. The main messages from The Amazing Maurice are to make your own story and find your own abilities.

The Rat King uses his enhanced mental powers to pull all the rats in the town of Bad Blintz into himself. He shapes himself as a human – Boss Man – so that he can gain power over the Mayor and the other humans. What could possibly stop its thirst for power?

David Thewlis: Boss Man, Rat King

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My family and I very enjoyed watching the film. We laughed more than a few times. Of course, it may be another re-telling of the Pied Piper tale. But touches of Terry Pratchett's humor and cameo of his other characters make it special.

What is the budget for The Amazing Maurice? ›

It is a co-production between Ulysses Filmproduktion and Cantilever Media, with Terry Rossio writing the screenplay. The budget will be €15 million ($17 million). The voice cast of Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, David Thewlis, Himesh Patel, Gemma Arterton and Hugh Bonneville was announced in November 2020.

Only the rat clan... our hero rats, Darktan, Dangerous Beans, Sardines, Nourishing and Peaches, working together with Maurice, Keith and Malicia, who arrive with the real Pied Piper's pipe just in time for the final showdown...

Synopsis. Maurice tells a town of people that they have a plague of rats, illustrated by various rats terrorizing the townsfolk and convinces them to pay for Keith, the pied piper, to lead them outside of the town.

The Amazing Maurice, a children movie starring Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, and David Thewlis is available to stream now. Watch it on Hulu, Disney Plus, Fandango at Home, Prime Video, ROW8 or Apple TV on your Roku device.

All titles are narrated by Fleabag star Sian Clifford, with Bill Nighy as the voice of the footnotes and Peter Serafinowicz as the voice of Death. Death comes to us all.

Maurice Hall, a student at the University of Cambridge, reaches maturity and self-awareness when he accepts his homosexuality and also renounces the bourgeois values in which he has always believed. He further resolves his conflicts about class consciousness when he takes as a lover Alec Scudder, a gamekeeper.

The plot describes the life of Maurice Guest, a music piano student who lived and studied in Leipzig in the end of the 19th century. This book is about obsession, jealousy and friendship. Among Maurice's friends, there is his best friend Madeleine Wade who was a former teacher in a large school near London.

As the film ends, Clive is looking out his window, his wife standing behind him, as Maurice disappears into the trees. He then sees the young Maurice at Cambridge, beckoning to him, but all he can do is look on in sadness at the life that he could have had.