What happened to the dad in a wrinkle of time?

They tell Meg that her father is still alive and that his belief in tessering is real. The Misses declare that it is time to find Alex, and they transport the children across the universe. Everyone ends up on another planet called Uriel, which is beautiful and vibrant.
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Does she find her dad in A Wrinkle in Time?

Meg feels a surge of intense sadness that even though she has found her father, nothing is back to normal. Charles Wallace tells them he is bringing them right to IT. Mr. Murry argues the Meg will never survive the encounter, but Charles Wallace just shrugs.
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How long was Meg's father missing in A Wrinkle in Time?

Murry, the children's long disappeared father, is a brilliant physicist who landed on a planet overtaken by the Black Thing when he tried to tesseract for the first time. He's been missing for over a year when his children rescue him from Camazotz.
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What happened to Meg and Calvin?

The pair eventually have seven children, with the oldest being Polyhymnia “Polly” O'Keefe, who becomes a central character in the O'Keefe novels. So there you have it, casual A Wrinkle in Time fans, true love does exist and Meg and Calvin end up together in the end.
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What rumor was being spread about Meg's father?

Murry explains that Meg's father used to play number games with her when she was a child, thus teaching her all sorts of tricks and shortcuts. After dinner, Calvin reads to Charles Wallace in bed while Meg sits with her mother downstairs. Mrs. Murry expresses her grief at her beloved husband's absence.
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How does Meg feel about her father?

Meg lashes out at her father because she cannot accept that he is merely a fallible human being like herself. She expects him to be superhuman and to solve all their problems. Like all children, Meg is going through the difficult experience of realizing that her parents do not know everything.
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Where is Meg's father in A Wrinkle in Time?

Meg's father and a physicist who works for a top-secret government agency on experiments with travel through space-time in the fifth dimension. In trying to tesser to Mars (i.e., travel through a tesseract, or wrinkle in time), he is captured and imprisoned on the dark planet of Camazotz.
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What does Calvin O'Keefe look like?

A Man of Many Hats

Well, this pretty much describes the life of Calvin O'Keefe in A Wrinkle in Time. You might say he wears a different hat at home, at school, and when he is with the Murry family. On the surface, he is a tall, thin teenage boy with freckles and blue eyes.
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How many siblings does Meg have in A Wrinkle in Time?

She has three siblings: her brother Charles Wallace (who traveled with her and Calvin O'Keefe on their first adventure across time and space) and twins Sandy and Dennys.
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How does Meg save Wallace?

How does Meg ultimately save Charles Wallace? Meg ultimately saves Charles Wallace by going by herself to Camazotz and faces IT and embraces her love for Charles Wallace. She thinks about how much she loves him.
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Will There Be A Wrinkle in Time 2 movie?

Based on early reviews, it seems unlikely that a sequel will happen. Still, maybe audiences will feel differently. After all, the weirdness of this film is directly related to the weirdness of the book. A Wrinkle in Time is out in wide release now.
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How does Meg save her father?

Finally, at wit's end, Meg remembers Mrs. Who's spectacles. By putting them over her eyes and throwing herself at the column, she successfully gets through to her father and stands by his side.
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Is Meg from A Wrinkle in Time black?

Teenage Meg Murry and her mother, both white like the rest of their family in the 1962 “A Wrinkle in Time” novel, are portrayed in this film version by black actresses Storm Reid and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Dad is played by Caucasian Chris Pine.
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Why was Meg so disappointed in her father?

Her main disappointment is in her father: she was so sure once they found him that everything would be all right, that he would save them all. He responds that he is only a fallible man, and that "all things work together for the good to them that love God". Meg is not consoled.
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What happens to Charles Wallace in a wrinkle in time?

Charles Wallace tries to fight IT with his exceptional intelligence but is overpowered by the evil and becomes a robot-like creature mouthing the words with which IT infuses him.
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How does Meg defeat it?

In A Wrinkle in Time, Meg defeats IT with love. She rescues her father from IT, but in the process, her brother Charles Wallace is left behind in IT's...
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Why are the Twins not in A Wrinkle in Time?

Den of Geek had a chance to ask screenwriter Jennifer Lee about the decision to cut them from the movie during a press event in Los Angeles. She told us that they were one of the first aspects of the book to be removed from the script, as they were unnecessary to telling Meg's story in A Wrinkle in Time.
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Is Charles Wallace adopted in A Wrinkle in Time?

But for those keeping track, in the book, Charles Wallace is the biological son of Murrys, while in the very first scene of the film, we learn Charles Wallace is adopted. DuVernay said she made that change to honor McCabe's Filipino descent.
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How are Calvin and Meg's father alike in Meg's eyes?

How are Calvin and Meg's father alike in Meg's eyes? They are both intelligent and care about other people.
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Who is Charles Wallace to Meg?

Charles Wallace Murry is the younger brother of Meg Murry and the youngest child in the Murry Family. Charles Wallace is one of the main protagonists in A Wrinkle in Time. In A Wrinkle in Time, he (along with Meg and Calvin O'Keefe) accepts the offer of Mrs.
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Why does Calvin Call Charles a moron?

Why does Calvin Call Charles a moron? Calvin heard that Charles couldn't talk and assumed he was a moron.
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What is Meg nickname in A Wrinkle in Time?

Margaret "Meg" Murry.
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Is Charles Wallace Meg's brother?

Deric McCabe as Charles Wallace Murry

Deric McCabe is Charles Wallace Murry, Meg's little brother. Even though he is the youngest of the group, he is the most powerful.
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Does Meg have powers in A Wrinkle in Time?

Meg's power doesn't come from her ability to travel through space and time. It emerges from a broader defiance that she slowly learns to level against evil. Meg looks into the darkness and the darkness blinks.
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Who is the villain in A Wrinkle in Time?

Type of Villain

IT, also known as Red while possessing him, is the main antagonist of the novel A Wrinkle in Time (the first installment to the Time Quintet series), and its 2003 and 2018 film adaptations. He is a powerful entity taking the form of a brain, and he is the ruler of planet Camazotz.
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