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- They are specialists in their fields: a rock climber, a computer genius, a
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- mechanical whiz.
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- Their task: To rob one of the world’s most impenetrable banks.
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- Their plan: Foolproof.
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- Their methods: Ingenious
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- And they’re only twelve years old.
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- Meet Maddy, Gus, and Austin: Three kids on a mission…without permission.
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- CATCH THAT KID is an adventure film filled with action and fun, about a 12
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- -
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- year old girl who, with the help of two friends, robs the state-
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- of
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- -the-art bank, in order to
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- acquire the cash needed
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- for a costly operation to save her ailing father. During the heist,
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- the kids overcome high
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- -tech security systems, guard dogs, and a nasty security chief to
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- get to a bank vault suspended 100-
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- feet above ground.
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- With all its high
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- -tech action and adventure,
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- CATCH THAT KID is grounded in
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- some realistic situations and challenges. “If you look at other films, they’ll utilize really
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- fantastic, adventurous, almost James Bondian gadgets and toys, and although that
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- temptation was there initially, we felt very stron
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- gly that it just wasn’t right for this
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- movie,” says director Bart Freundlich. “Of course kids couldn’t break into a high
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- security bank, but many of the things they pull off, from the stunts to the climbing and
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- the go-cart racing are fun and very real, lik
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- e things that kids could really do.”
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- “We think it’s cool that three kids are putting one over on adults,” says
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- screenwriter Michael Brandt. “Kids driving go
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- -carts and trying to help out the main
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- girl’s dad…What kid wouldn’t love to have an adventure like
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- this?”
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- Producer Andrew Lazar feels audiences will really go for a ride. “In the end,
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- CATCH THAT KID is about wish fulfillment,” he says. “People like to go to movies
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- and be taken away and pretend like they’re somebody that they’re not. In this movie,
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- k
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- ids get to see themselves, rather than George Clooney and Brad Pitt, as the guys who