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July 8, 2016

At the Movies: Family searches for utopia in ‘Captain Fantastic'

By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer

Six children raised in a forest venture into the outside world for the first time when their father (Viggo Mortensen) takes them on a road trip.

"Captain Fantastic" is about the fantasy of being able to create a perfect world for your children, and the crushing realization that such control is ultimately impossible. Ben (Viggo Mortensen) pursues this ideal in a particularly extreme way — by removing his family from society altogether and creating his own little utopia in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.


 
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