Focus Features

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This image released by Focus Features, Sigourney Weaver appears in a scene from "A Monster Calls." (Quim Vives /Focus Features via AP)

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This image released by Focus Features, Felicity Jones, right, and Lewis MacDougall appear in a scene from "A Monster Calls." (Quim Vives/Focus Features via AP)

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This image released by Focus Features, Lewis MacDougall appears with The Monster, voiced and performed by Liam Neeson, in a scene from "A Monster Calls." (Focus Features via AP)

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This image released by Focus Features, Lewis MacDougall appears with The Monster, voiced and performed by Liam Neeson, in a scene from "A Monster Calls." (Focus Features via AP)