The Spiderwick chronicles
(DVD)

Based on the book by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi.

Special features: featurettes: Spiderwick, it's all true; It's a Spiderwick world; Arthur Spiderwick's field guide.

For private home use only.

Director of photography, Caleb Deschanel ; editor, Michael Kahn ; music, James Horner ; costume designers, Odette Gadoury, Joanna Johnston ; production designer, James D. Bissell ; special effects supervisors, Louis Craig, Michael Lantieri ; visual effects supervisor, Tim Alexander.

Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Sarah Bolger, Andrew McCarthy, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn.

Voices: Seth Rogen, Martin Short.

The moment the Grace family moves into the dilapidated Spiderwick Estate, strange things begin to happen. Jared is a curious, adventurous boy who quickly seeks out and finds the hidden laboratory of his great great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. He unleashes a mysterious force when he locates a field guide full of the secrets of the magical creatures that inhabit the forest surrounding the mansion. His twin brother Simon is calm and reserved. He is the intellectual twin, but is rapidly drawn into the fantastical world of fairies and goblins. Older sister Mallory and their mom are harder to convince, but after the almighty and ruthless ogre leader Mulgarath begins to attack the home, the entire family must band together to combat the hordes of goblins and creatures that lurk just outside.

MPAA rating: PG; for scary creature action and violence, peril, and some thematic elements :,CHV: PG; frightening scenes.

DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital, NTSC.

Closed-captioned; in English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1) or Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1) with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish.