Chris Butler wrote and codirected this animated adventure about a misunderstood boy who can speak with the dead, takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse. Kodi Smit-McPhee voices the character of Norman Babcok, Tucker Albrizzi is Neil, Anna Kendrick is Courtney, Casey Affleck is Mitch and Christopher Mintz-Plasse is Alvin.