Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children 🎥 2016 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Abe Portman has told his grandson Jake stories about battling monsters and spending his childhood at “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” at Cairnholm, an island off the coast of Wales. The home’s children and headmistress, Miss Alma Lefay Peregrine, possess paranormal abilities and are known as “Peculiars”. One day, Jake finds Abe dying with his eyes removed. He tells him to go to “the loop of September 3, 1943”. To cope, Jake begins therapy with Dr. Golan. She encourages Jake’s desire to travel to the United Kingdom for closure regarding his grandfather’s death. On Cairnholm, Jake and his father, Frank, investigate the children’s home.

It was destroyed during a Luftwaffe raid, but upon entering the ruins Jake finds the children from Abe’s stories. The children take Jake through a portal on the island’s coast, and emerge in 1943 with the house intact. Miss Peregrine explains she belongs to female Peculiars named Ymbryne who can transform into birds and manipulate time. To avoid persecution for being Peculiars, she and the children hide from the outside world in a time loop she created, set to September 3, 1943, and accessible only to Peculiars. It allows them to live the same day repeatedly and avoid aging as long as they stay inside it. Jake meets the other children, including aerokinetic Emma Bloom.

Jake is a Peculiar like his grandfather, and can see the invisible monsters from his stories, called “Hollowgasts”. They are disfigured Peculiar mad scientists who killed an Ymbryne in a failed experiment to attain immortality. Led by the shapeshifting Mr. Barron, they hunt Peculiars, primarily children, to consume their eyeballs. Mr. Barron and some of his colleagues consume enough eyeballs to become Wights, regaining a visibly human appearance apart from milky-white eyes.

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