Arthur Christmas Movie 2011

Movie Information

Directed by:Sarah Smith

Produced by:Steve Pegram
Executive:Carla Shelley,Peter Lord,David Sproxton.

Written by:Peter Baynham,Sarah Smith

Starring:James McAvoy,Hugh Laurie,Bill Nighy,Jim Broadbent,Imelda Staunton,Ashley Jensen,Ramona Marquez.

Music by:Harry Gregson-Williams

Studio:Sony Pictures Animation,Aardman Animations

Distributed by:Columbia Pictures

Release Date:November 11, 2011 (2011-11-11) (United Kingdom)
November 23, 2011 (2011-11-23) (United States)

Running Time:97 minutes

Country:United Kingdom,United States

Language:English

Budget:$100 million

Box office:$90,990,000

Plot: Arthur Christmas story of Arthur Christmas revolves around the current Santa Claus, his wife, his two sons Arthur and Steve, and their grandfather, Grand-Santa. Set on Christmas Eve night, the film opens with a set of elves sitting behind their computers in the command center of Santa's mile-wide, ultra-high-tech sleigh titled the S-1. While Santa and the elves deliver presents to children using fancy advanced equipment and military precision, Santa's oldest son Steve manages the operation at mission control, alongside his obsequious assistant Peter. However, his clumsy younger brother Arthur, who is assigned to handling childrens' letters in the mail department, inadvertently disrupts operations when he enters mission control to place some correspondence and a present falls out of the system as a result.With the seventieth annual delivery mission under his official command completed, Santa, being far past his prime and whose role in field operations now is largely symbolic, returns to give a congratulatory speech to the elves. Much to Steve's frustration, who has long anticipated succeeding his father, Santa announces he intends to continue for the foreseeable future.During their family Christmas dinner, Arthur's suggestion for the family to play a board game degenerates into a petty quarrel with Santa and Steve arguing about their right to be Santa while Grand-Santa, who is bored by retirement, resentfully criticizes his successors' modernization of their calling. Distraught, the various family members leave the dinner table, though Arthur stops Steve with a small gesture to reassure him that he will be a great Santa Claus. However, Steve rejects Arthur's overture, while at the same time their father shares his doubts with his wife about his self-identity if he retires.Meanwhile, an elf named Bryony finds a wrapped bicycle that has not yet been delivered. She alerts Steve and his elf-assistant to the problem. Overhearing, Arthur is alarmed to recognize the present as a gift for a little girl named Gwen who had written Santa about her wish. Arthur alerts his father Santa who doesn't know how to handle the situation. Steve argues that one missed present out of the billions of deliveries that night is a minimal error and since sunrise is in two hours with the high-tech sled needing an overhaul, correcting that oversight will have to wait a few days.