Where The Wild Things Are, with Dave Eggers

AMC Loews Boston Common

Much of the best of Hollywood these days is springing from the works of children's writers, like Maurice Sendak, whose classic Where the Wild Things Are has been adapted by child-like director Spike Jonze and screenwriter and famed grown-up author Dave Eggers. The film is due to open October 16, but you can catch it tonight at a preview screening that's also a benefit for Eggers's children's-literacy-promoting charity 826 Boston. After the film, stick around for a Q&A with, yes, Eggers himself. It'll be at the AMC Loews Boston Common, 175 Tremont St, Boston | 7 pm | $30 | 617.442.5400 or www.826boston.org

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