Maurice Sendak is my king.
No, not because Sendak, in 1963, turned 10 sentences into a children's classic. "Where the Wild Things Are" tells the tale of a boy named Max who runs away from home and sails off to an island where the fantastical creatures that live there proclaim him their king. And not because the film version of that book, directed by the brilliantly edgy Spike Jonze and co-written by Dave Eggers, took the No. 1 spot at the box office last weekend with $32.5 million.
Interestingly, this is less of a children's movie than a movie about childhood. Moviegoers 18 and over accounted for 43 percent of the audience while parents with children made up just 27 percent, according to distributor Warner Bros. 
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