History Film / AWrinkleInTime

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"The only thing faster than light is the darkness."'']]
->'''Dr. Kate Murry:''' Imagine that the ant here wants to get to her other hand.\\
'''Meg Murry:''' The quickest option is to walk across the string.\\
'''Kate:''' But it turns out a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. Not if you use a fifth dimension.\\
'''Meg:''' It’s outside of the rules we know of time and space. So the ant arrives in my hand instantaneously.\\
'''Calvin:''' So you fold space.\\
'''Meg:''' More likely wrinkle it.

''A Wrinkle in Time'' is the 2018 [[TheFilmOfTheBook theatrical movie adaptation]] of the 1962 novel of the same name by Madeleine L'Engle. It is directed by Creator/AvaDuVernay and written by Jennifer Lee. It stars Storm Reid, Creator/OprahWinfrey, Creator/ReeseWitherspoon, Creator/MindyKaling, Creator/GuguMbathaRaw, Creator/MichaelPena, Zach Galifianakis, Creator/ChrisPine, Levi Miller, Deric [=McCabe=], André Holland and Rowan Blanchard. It is due to release on March 9, 2018.

After learning her astrophysicist father is being held captive on a distant planet deep in the grip of a universe-spanning evil, Meg Murry works with her highly intelligent younger brother, her classmate, and three astral travelers to save him.

'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4U3TeY2wtM Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZ56rcWwRQ Trailer]].
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!!''A Wrinkle in Time'' contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Calvin's father, of the emotionally abusive sort.
* ActorIsTheTitleCharacter: Used on various posters, for example: “Storm Reid IS Meg Murry”.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness:
** Principal Jenkins in the books is described as middle-age, balding, and overall rather pathetic. In the movie he's played by [[https://www.gq.com/story/andre-holland-moonlight-interview Andre Holland]].
** In the books, Mrs. Whatsit is described as a rotund older woman with a voice "like an unoiled garden gate" who dresses in layers of shabby, mismatched clothing. The film's Mrs Whatsit is a fresh-faced Reese Witherspoon with elaborately styled red hair and glamorous makeup.
* AdaptationDistillation: Sandy and Dennys, Meg and Charles Wallace's more normal twin brothers, are left out of the adaptation to avoid cluttering up the story with irrelevant characters. A sequence from the book in which Dr. Murry, Meg, and Calvin temporarily escape Camazotz and recuperate on the planet Ixchel under the care of its benevolent natives is also cut, presumably for pacing reasons, though Ixchel and "Aunt Beast" are very briefly mentioned while the Happy Medium is tracking Dr. Murry's path across the universe.
* AdaptationalDumbass: Mrs. Whatsit in the novel was a bit eccentric but still wise and knowledgeable. Here, her intelligence is decreased significantly, coming across as a childish, thick-headed ditz.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Mrs. Whatsit was grandmotherly towards all the kids in the novel, unlike here, where she’s only nice towards Charles Wallace and Calvin and treating Meg as a nuisance for the majority. It’s no surprise she’s given a “seriously?” look by Who and Which after claiming [[spoiler:she knew Meg would succeed in the end]].
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Both Meg and Charles Wallace are subjected to this; Meg is more overtly bothered by it.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: At least the ones the group travels to (Camazotz may not really be "earthlike," but it creates the illusion of it).
* AlphaBitch: Veronica
* BigSisterInstinct: Meg to Charles Wallace, of course. Charles Wallace also tries to look after Meg in his own ways.
* BrainMonster: IT [[spoiler: even more so than in the book]].
* BrightIsNotGood: Camazotz is over-saturated with color, making it look even more unnatural.
* CreepyChild: All of the children acting in unison in Camazotz [[spoiler: and Charles Wallace, once he's taken over by IT]]
* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: He was imprisoned by an evil superintelligence on the other side of the universe.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Meg's brother, Charles Wallace, gets possessed by the It, and starts saying hurtful things to everyone.]]
* DemotedToExtra: The Man With The Red Eyes has a much smaller role in this movie. [[spoiler: He really only acts as a puppet controlled by IT to tempt Charles Wallace, and once Charles Wallace is in control he appears as a ''literal'' puppet who then disintegrates.]]
* DutchAngle: One of the camera angles used to show the odd places the trio goes to.
* FailedASpotCheck: The two teachers who fail to notice that Charles Wallace is sitting on a bench directly below them while they discuss his father's disappearance and how weird Meg and Charles Wallace are.
* FoodChains: Implied. Meg doesn't eat any food on Camazotz, and is able to tesser out; Calvin eats several bites, and notices nothing wrong; Charles Wallace eats a few bites, and [[TrueSight realizes that it's made of sand]], allowing him to be absorbed by IT.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Mrs Which gets it mostly right, except for being about twelve feet tall.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Charles Wallace.
* GenderFlip: The Happy Medium is played by a man.
* GoodWithNumbers: All of the Murrys. And unlike in the book, where she is a microbiologist, Mrs. Murry is a physicist and she and Dr. Murry developed the tesseract theory together.
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: They let Meg see physics [[spoiler: and discover where her father is imprisoned]].
* HappilyAdopted: Both Meg and Charles Wallace in this adaptation.
* HotScientist: The Murrys, as played by Creator/ChrisPine and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: What Meg tries to do [[spoiler: to break IT's hold on Charles Wallace, by reminding him of how much they love each other]].
* IndividualityIsIllegal: And impossible, on Camazotz.
* InternalizedCategorism: Never stated outright, but Meg's displeasure at the first time Calvin compliments her natural hair, her wish to come back as "somebody different," and [[spoiler: the straight-haired fashionable double IT uses to tempt her]] all indicate she has trouble with this. She gets better by the end of the movie.
* ItWasAGift: Unlike in the book, only Meg receives gifts.
* LargeHam: Reese Witherspoon takes no time devouring the ''entire'' scenery.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The page quote above does not appear in the finished film, only the trailers.
* RaceLift:
** The Murrys were Caucasian in the book, but are a mixed-race family here.
** The casting of Creator/OprahWinfrey and Mindy Kahling as Mrs. Which and Mrs. Who could be considered this to a lesser degree. While the books never explicitly identify the witches as any race (and given they're the physical manifestation of stars they don't even HAVE a race in the typical human sense) artwork for the books frequently depicts them as white.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Anyone directly channeling IT.
* SpeakInUnison: In the StepfordSuburbia part of Camazotz, the mothers are in perfect unison, calling for their children with the same tone at the appropriate time. Even when they go off-script upon seeing the trio, they speak together.
* SpeaksInShoutouts: Mrs Who, as in the book, with a mix of traditional poets and philosophers along with more [[{{Theater/Hamilton}} current references]].
* StepfordSuburbia: Once the children are over "the wall" on Camazotz, they arrive in a perfectly-ordered suburban cul-de-sac where almost identically-dressed children stand bouncing a ball in precise time with one another, until their mothers come out to call them in to dinner in perfect unison. One of the mothers notices the trio and invites them in to dinner as well, all with the same disturbingly plastic smile and stilted tone of voice.
* ThePowerOfLove: Just as in the book, [[spoiler: Meg frees Charles Wallace from IT's control through the power of their love for each other. Here she does it aloud, whereas in the book she thinks and believes it strongly enough.]]
* TheyCalledMeMad: The scientific establishment was not ready for Dr. Murry's theories on traveling by tesseract, or the idea of tesseracts at all.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Charles Wallace, [[spoiler: even before he gets absorbed by IT.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Mrs Whatsit's sort of plant-dragon form.
* WeightWoe: When Mrs Which is explaining IT to Meg, we see a montage of troubled people from around their town, including [[spoiler: Veronica, the AlphaBitch who bullies Meg, tearfully standing on a scale and staring at a list of food she doesn't allow herself to eat]].
* WhosOnFirst: With Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which and Mrs. Whatsit, it was bound to happen.
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->''[[Music/{{Eurythmics}} ♫ Sweet dreams are made of this\\
Who am I to disagree\\
Travel the world and the seven seas\\
Everybody looking for something... ♫]]''

** In the books, Mrs Whatsit is described as a rotund older woman with a voice "like an unoiled garden gate" who dresses in layers of shabby, mismatched clothing. The film's Mrs Whatsit is a fresh-faced Reese Witherspoon with elaborately styled red hair and glamorous makeup.

** In the books, Mrs Whatsit is described as a rotund older woman with a voice "like an unoiled garden gate" who dresses in layers of shabby, mismatched clothing. The film's Mrs Whatsit is a fresh-faced Renee Zellwegger with elaborately styled red hair and glamorous makeup.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Charles Wallace[[spoiler:, even before he gets absorbed by IT.]]

* InternalizedCatagorism: Never stated outright, but Meg's displeasure at the first time Calvin compliments her natural hair, her wish to come back as "somebody different," and [[spoiler: the straight-haired fashionable double IT uses to tempt her]] all indicate she has trouble with this. She gets better by the end of the movie.

* HotScientist: The Murrays, as played by Creator/ChrisPine and Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

''A Wrinkle in Time'' is the 2018 [[TheFilmOfTheBook theatrical movie adaptation]] of the 1962 novel of the same name by Madeleine L'Engle. It is directed by Ava [=DuVernay=] and written by Jennifer Lee. It stars Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Creator/ReeseWitherspoon, Creator/MindyKaling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Creator/MichaelPena, Zach Galifianakis, Creator/ChrisPine, Levi Miller, Deric [=McCabe=], André Holland and Rowan Blanchard. It is due to release on March 9, 2018.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Principal Jenkins in the books is described as middle-age, balding, and overall rather pathetic. In the movie he's played by [[https://www.gq.com/story/andre-holland-moonlight-interview Andre Holland]]
* AdaptationDistillation: Several scenes and characters, including the twins, Aunt Beast, and the two-dimensional planet are cut.

* SpeakInUnison: In Camazotz, the mothers are in perfect unison, calling for their children with the same tone at the appropriate time. Even when they go off-script upon seeing the trio, they speak together.
* StepfordSuburbia: Camazotz, possibly even more than in the original. It is a perfectly pristine neighborhood where the neighbors act like a HiveMind, speaking, dressing, and acting in perfect, disturbing sychronization.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Charles Wallace, even before he gets absorbed by IT.

* WhosOnFirst: With Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which and Mrs. Whatsit, it's bound to happen.

** The casting of Creator/OprahWinfrey and Mindy Kahling as Mrs. Which and Mrs. Who could be considered this to a lesser degree, as while the books never explicitly identify the witches as any race (and given they're the physical manifestation of stars they don't even HAVE a race in the typical human sense) artwork for the books frequently depicts them as white.

''A Wrinkle in Time'' is the 2018 [[TheFilmOfTheBook theatrical movie adaptation]] of the 1962 novel of the same name by Madeleine L'Engle. It is directed by Ava [=DuVernay=] and written by Jennifer Lee. It stars Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Creator/ReeseWitherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Creator/MichaelPena, Zach Galifianakis, Creator/ChrisPine, Levi Miller, Deric [=McCabe=], André Holland and Rowan Blanchard. It is due to release on March 9, 2018.

* ActorIsTheTitleCharacter: Used on various posters, for example: “Storm Reid IS Meg Murray”.

* RaceLift: [[http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2016/05/ava_duvernay_adding_touch_of_c.html Casting calls]] have specifically targeted nonwhite actors to play the main trio. The casting of Creator/OprahWinfrey and Mindy Kahling as Mrs. Which and Mrs. Who could be considered this to a lesser degree, as while the books never explicitly identify the witches as any race (and given they're the physical manifestation of stars they don't even HAVE a race in the typical human sense) artwork for the books frequently depicts them as white.

Previews: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZ56rcWwRQ Trailer 1]].

!!The film provides examples of the following tropes:

''A Wrinkle in Time'' is the 2018 [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie adaptation]] of the 1962 novel of the same name by Madeleine L'Engle. It is directed by Ava [=DuVernay=] and written by Jennifer Lee. It stars Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Creator/ReeseWitherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Creator/MichaelPena, Zach Galifianakis, Creator/ChrisPine, Levi Miller, Deric [=McCabe=], André Holland and Rowan Blanchard. It is due to release on March 9, 2018.

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''A Wrinkle in Time'' is the 2018 [[TheFilmOfTheBook movie adaptation]] of the 1962 novel of the same name by Madeleine L'Engle. It is directed by Ava [=DuVernay=] and written by Jennifer Lee. It stars Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Creator/ReeseWitherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Creator/MichaelPena, Creator/ZachGalifianakis, Creator/ChrisPine, Levi Miller, Deric [=McCabe=], André Holland and Rowan Blanchard. It is due to release on March 9, 2018.

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