Burn Your Maps

Burn Your Maps

Sometimes you have to get lost to find your way home.

Directed by Jordan Roberts

Produced by Atmosphere Entertainment MM, Patrick Aiello Productions

2016102 min7.1 / 10

A warmhearted family adventure that uses a child's eccentric delusion as a catalyst for emotional healing and rediscovery.

A family in emotional turmoil is taken by surprise in this quirky adventure where an eccentric 8-year-old American boy, Wes, has an existential epiphany - He believes that he is in fact a Mongolian goat herder.

Questions people ask

  • Is Burn Your Maps violent? Barely. Less violent than 86% of films.

  • Is Burn Your Maps scary? Barely. Less frightening than 84% of films.

  • Is Burn Your Maps easy watching? Yes. More comforting than 82% of films.

  • Does Burn Your Maps end with hope? Yes. More hopeful than 81% of films.

  • Is Burn Your Maps sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

70/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Distinctly its own thing.

Rarity73

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise65

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love72

How much audiences actually like it

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Ensemble

Like Burn Your Maps

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

Same Mood as Burn Your Maps

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like Burn Your Maps, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like Burn Your Maps, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Burn Your Maps, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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