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DIGITAL

Opening Date

18 Sep 2025

Rating

PG13 Some Violence

Runtime

94 mins

Language

English with English subtitles

Genre

Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Director

Seth Worley

Cast

Tony Hale, D'Arcy Carden, Bianca Belle

Synopsis

When a young girl's sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life-chaotic, real and on the loose. As the towns descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to unleash.

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By InCinemas 17 Sep 2025

Overcoming grief but make it quirky.

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Written and directed by Seth Worley, Sketch stars Tony Hale, D'Arcy Carden, Bianca Belle, Kue Lawrence, and more.

The fantasy comedy horror film follows the Wyatt family – widowed father Taylor (Hale) and his children Jack (Lawrence) and Amber (Belle). Amber is a creative spirit who’s clearly going through something, as evident in the violent drawings she’s made. Jack on the other hand, is your typical adventurous Minecraft-type gamer who doesn’t show an ounce of angst or rebellion the way his sister does.

Obviously Taylor did not expect to see death when he encouraged Amber to draw as opposed to keep her emotions pent up. “You can’t control your inbox, but you can control your outbox,” he says – a very valuable teaching moment that could apply to everyone.

While walking alone through the woods one day, Jack takes a tumble and stumbles upon a pond of water that miraculously heals his wounds and cracked phone screen. He goes back with a broken plate the next day only to see it in brand-new condition once he pulls it out from the water. Jack devices a plan for one more visit, bringing along a box of his mother’s ashes – only this time, Amber secretly follows him when she catches him sneaking out of the house. Her sketchbook is accidentally dropped into the water, setting the rest of the film into an adventure-filled motion.

To Jack’s knowledge and horror, Amber’s sketches are about to come to life. Thankfully, the sketches are more cutesy and vibrant than her verbal graphic backstories for each of them. Etched out in crayons, chalks or markers, they’re every shade of the rainbow that livens up the screen. Even when children’s lives are in very real danger of a giant blue fuzzy monster stomping them to death, the glitter showers that also come out of the same monster dampens its scare factor.

As the children embark on an adventure trying to defeat Amber’s creations while their father searches for them along with his sister Liz (Carden), the real messaging the film is trying to send becomes more apparent – Sketch is not so much a film about embracing one’s creativity, but an imaginative story on overcoming one’s grief.

Ever since the death of their mother/wife, Amber has been the only one with reactions while Taylor and Jack put their focus on helping Amber work through her feelings and in the process, suppressing their own. It’s when the film concludes with each Wyatt coming to terms with their loss do we get awashed with catharsis.

Despite its quirkiness, Sketch is more than just a fun family film. It’s one that’s unafraid to explore darker themes to provide teachable lessons for parents and children alike in navigating their emotions. And one worth experienced on the big screen.
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