Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father (Viggo Mortensen) dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he's taught them.

MOVIE REVIEW

In the movie Captain Fantastic, which is most certainly not about a superhero, Viggo Mortensen’s character asks one of his spirited daughters to analyze the novel “Lolita,” to which she responds, roughly, “You know what he’s doing isn’t right, but you see it through his eyes. You see his love.”
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