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The boy / STX Entertainment, Lakeshore Entertainment and Huayi Brothers Pictures present ; a Lakeshore Entertainment and STX Entertainment production in association with Vertigo Entertainment ; producers, Jim Wedaa, Roy Lee, Matt Berenson ; produced by Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Richard Wright ; written by Stacey Menear ; directed by William Brent Bell.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 64177382 | Universal Pictures Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, [2016]Description: 1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Music, Bear McCreary; editor, Brian Berdan; director of photography, Daniel Pearl.
Cast: Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, James Russell, Jim Norton, Diana Hardcastle, Ben Robson.Summary: Greta is a young American woman who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, only to discover that the family's eight-year-old is a life-sized doll that the parents care for just like a real boy, as a way to cope with the death of their actual son twenty years prior. After violating a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring Greta's worst nightmare to life, leading her to believe that the doll is actually alive.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Greta (Lauren Cohan) takes a job as a nanny for a young boy in an English village. Upon her arrival, she discovers that the child is actually a life-size doll that the parents have been using as a coping mechanism since the death of their eight-year-old son two decades earlier. After the initial shock wears off, Greta decides to stay and work for the couple, but when she breaks a few strictly enforced rules of their "son's" care, she begins to suspect the toy may not be a doll at all. Directed by William Brent Bell. Rupert Evans, Jim Norton, Diana Hardcastle, Ben Robson, and James Russell co-star. ~ Erin Demers, Rovi

DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1.

English dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, James Russell, Jim Norton, Diana Hardcastle, Ben Robson.

Music, Bear McCreary; editor, Brian Berdan; director of photography, Daniel Pearl.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2016.

Rating: PG-13; for violence and terror, and for some thematic material.

Greta is a young American woman who takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, only to discover that the family's eight-year-old is a life-sized doll that the parents care for just like a real boy, as a way to cope with the death of their actual son twenty years prior. After violating a list of strict rules, a series of disturbing and inexplicable events bring Greta's worst nightmare to life, leading her to believe that the doll is actually alive.

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