Moonrise in Baton Rouge

In theaters Friday: Rock of Ages, That’s My Boy, The Woman in the Fifth
New on Blu-ray/DVD: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Why are all the best films in “limited release”? Baton Rougeans know the drill by now. A great film opens at Cannes or Toronto. Then New York and L.A. Then Chicago, Dallas, Boston. Weeks or even months later, we get it in Baton Rouge. In 2007 some friends and I drove down to New Orleans to watch Indian sojourn The Darjeeling Limited—no titular pun intended—auteur director Wes Anderson’s last live action film before 2009’s whimsical stop-motion classic Fantastic Mr. Fox, and in the words of Rushmore protagonist Max Fischer, “It was worth it.”

Anderson’s latest is the 1960s-set runaway comedy Moonrise Kingdom, and after being the first of the acclaimed director’s films to debut at Cannes in May and much adieu, it arrives in Baton Rouge at the Perkins Rowe theater tomorrow.

So what is in store for audiences? Well, by the looks of the New England home and boy scout camp in the trailer, Anderson’s gift for meticulous set and costume design, his interest in preternaturally mature children and near infantile adults, and his love of maps, hand-written letters, vintage books, uniforms and the French New Wave are in full sway.

Moonrise follows two 12-year-olds who fall in love and run away from their small township on the Eastern seaboard setting off a madcap search for their whereabouts by everyone from Bruce Willis’ police chief and Edward Norton’s aloof scoutmaster to Tilda Swinton’s mysterious character known only as “Social Services.”

Of course, regular Anderson players Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman round out the cast. Check out the trailer and an essential behind-the-scenes tour hosted by Murray below: