White Bird Movie (2024) – Watch Online, Release Date, Cast, Story, Budget, Collection, Trailer, Poster, Review

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White Bird: A Wonder Story Movie Information:
Also known as | A Wonder Story |
Genre | Biographical, Drama, War |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Release date | January 4, 2024 (International) October 4, 2024 (United States) |
Running time | 121 minutes |
Starring | Ariella Glaser, Orlando Schwerdt, Bryce Gheisar, Gillian Anderson, Helen Mirren |
Based on | White Bird: A Wonder Story by R. J. Palacio |
Directed by | Marc Forster |
Written by | Mark Bomback |
Produced by | David Hoberman Todd Lieberman |
Cinematography | Matthias Koenigswieser |
Edited by | Matt Chessé |
Music by | Thomas Newman |
Production companies | Lionsgate Mandeville Films Participant 2DUX² |
Distributed by | Lionsgate |
About White Bird Movie:
White Bird (marketed with the subtitle ) is an American war drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by Mark Bomback, based on the 2019 graphic novel of the same name by R. J. Palacio. Serving as both a spin-off prequel and a sequel to Wonder (2017).
It stars Ariella Glaser, Orlando Schwerdt, Bryce Gheisar, Gillian Anderson, and Helen Mirren, with Gheisar reprising his role as Julian Albans from Wonder.
In October 2019, Lionsgate acquired the rights to R.J. Palacio’s White Bird: A Wonder Story.
In February 2021, it was reported that Helen Mirren, Gillian Anderson, Orlando Schwerdt, and Ariella Glaser joined the cast. Bryce Gheisar was confirmed to reprise his role as Julian from the 2017 film Wonder.
Principal photography commenced in February 2021 in the Czech Republic.
White Bird was released in Italy, Slovenia, and Croatia on January 4, 2024; it was released in the United States by Lionsgate on October 4, 2024, to positive reviews from critics.
White Bird Movie Storyline:
After the events of Wonder, Julian has left Beecher Prep for good. He is visited by Sara, his grandmother from Paris, who, in response to Julian’s reflection about his need to be socially passive to fit in at his new school, tells him about her childhood as a young Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
In 1942, Sara evades being rounded up by the Gestapo and spends over a year being hidden by her classmate Julien (one of whose legs is congenitally paralyzed by poliomyelitis) in a barn adjacent to the house he lives in with his parents. She is instructed never to leave the structure to avoid being discovered by their neighbors whom they suspect of being Gestapo or Milice informers. At night, Julien teaches Sara what he has learned at school during the day. The affection between them eventually grows into love.
In 1944, after the liberation of Monte Cassino, Julien is arrested by the Milice on his way to school at a checkpoint and forcefully transported to a remote camp in the mountains via lorry. During an escape attempt by the other prisoners, he is shot dead. At the end of the war, Sara is reunited with her father, Max, but she learns her mother has been killed at Auschwitz. Sometime later, Max accepts a new job in Paris, and he and Sara move there, but she still makes sure to preserve her friendship with the Beaumiers and visit them often.
Back in the present, Julian, moved by his grandmother’s story, decides to make amends with his past and become a better person. – Wikipedia
White Bird Movie Cast and Characters:
- Helen Mirren as Sara Blum, Julian’s grandmother, a renowned artist raised in Nazi-occupied France
- Ariella Glaser as young Sara Blum
- Orlando Schwerdt as Julien Beaumier, Sara’s polio-lamed classmate, in whose family’s barn Sara hides from the Germans
- Bryce Gheisar as Julian Albans
- Gillian Anderson as Vivienne Beaumier, Julien’s mother
- Patsy Ferran as Mlle Petitjean, Sara and Julien’s teacher
- Ishai Golan as Max Blum, Sara’s father
- Jem Matthews as Vincent
- Stuart McQuarrie as Pastor Luc, headmaster of Sara and Julien’s school
- Olivia Ross as Rose Blum, Sara’s mother
- Jo Stone-Fewings as Jean Paul Beaumier, Julien’s father