Eggs is a young boy living in the dairy loving, wealthy town of Cheesbridge. He was adopted as a baby and is a perfectly ordinary boy - apart from the fact that he was brought up in a sewer by an unusual group of foster parents. The Boxtrolls are underground creatures feared throughout the town as sinister and dangerous monsters, but in truth they are remarkably kind and so shy that they spend most of their time hiding in the boxes they wear as shells and venturing out at night so that they don't bump into the Cheesebridge residents. All they wish to do is collect discarded rubbish and turn it into incredible machines. Unfortunately, despite their harmlessness, a vicious exterminator named Archibald Snatcher is after their heads when the town's council insists on their removal. Eggs must help save his family, but first he's got to start behaving like a regular boy.
'The Boxtrolls' is a charming stop-motion adventure which is based on Alan Snow's 'Here Be Monsters!'. It has been directed by Graham Annable ('ParaNorman' story artist) and Anthony Stacchi ('Open Season'), and written by Irena Brignull ('Skellig', 'Come Together') and Adam Pava ('Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends') and will be released in the US on September 26th 2014.
Starring: Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, Simon Pegg, Toni Collette, Ben Kingsley, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, Tracy Morgan, Laraine Newman, Sam Lavagnino