Hugo Movie 2011

Movie Information

Directed by:Martin Scorsese

Produced by:Johnny Depp,Timothy Headington,Graham King,Martin Scorsese.

Screenplay by:John Logan

Based on:The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Starring:Ben Kingsley,Sacha Baron Cohen,Asa Butterfield,Chloë Grace Moretz,Ray Winstone,Emily Mortimer,Jude Law.

Music by:Howard Shore

Cinematography:Robert Richardson

Editing by:Thelma Schoonmaker

Studio:GK Films,Infinitum Nihil,Metropolitan Filmexport.

Distributed by:Paramount Pictures (US),Entertainment Film Distributors (UK)

Release Date:23  November 2011

 (2011-11-23)

Running Time:127 minutes

Country:United States

Language:English

Budget:Less than $150 million

Box office:$35,592,560

Plot: Hugo is a fantasy adventure that takes place in a Paris railway station in 1931. Hugo Cabret is a young boy whose mother has died and who lives with his father, a master clockmaker, who takes him to see films and loves the films of Georges Méliès best of all. Hugo's father dies in a museum fire, and Hugo is taken away by his uncle, an alcoholic watchmaker who is responsible for maintaining the clocks in the railway station. His uncle teaches him to take care of the clocks and disappears. Hugo lives between the walls of the train station, maintaining the clocks, stealing food and working on his father's most ambitious project: a broken automaton — a mechanical man who is supposed to write with a pen, which Hugo's father had found and hoped to repair. Hugo steals mechanical parts in the station to repair the automaton, but he is caught by a toy store owner, who takes away Hugo's blueprints for the automaton. The automaton is missing one part — a heart–shaped key. Convinced that the automaton contains a message from his father, Hugo goes through desperate lengths to fix the machine. He gains the assistance of Isabelle, a girl close to his age and the goddaughter of the toy shop owner, and he introduces Isabelle to the movies, which her godfather has never let her see. Isabelle turns out to have the key to the automaton, which unlocks it to produce a drawing of a film scene Hugo remembers his father telling him about. They discover that the film was created by Georges Méliès, Isabelle's godfather, an early — but now neglected and disillusioned — cinema legend, and that the automaton was a beloved creation of his from his days as a magician. In the end, the children reconnect Georges with his past and with a new generation of cinema aficionados which has come to appreciate his work.