Hugo

Theatrical Release Date: 2011 11 23 (USA - 3D) / 2011 11 23 (USA)

UPC: 097361449449

Studio: Paramount

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Smoking]

Summary: Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Brian Selznick's award-winning novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret stars Asa Butterfield, as an orphan boy who lives in a Parisian train station. Sent to live with his drunken uncle after his father's death in a fire, Hugo learned how to wind the massive clocks that run throughout the station. When the uncle disappears one day, Hugo decides to maintain the clocks on his own, hoping nobody will catch on to him squatting in the station. His natural aptitude for engineering leads him to steal gears, tools, and other items from a toy-shop owner who maintains a storefront in the station. Hugo needs these purloined pieces in order to rebuild a mechanical man that was left in the father's care at the museum -- the restoration was a project father and son did together. When Georges (Ben Kingsley), the old man who runs the toy stand, catches on to the thievery, he threatens to turn Hugo over to the station's lone police officer (Sacha Baron Cohen, who makes every effort to send any parentless child in the station to the orphanage. But Hugo's run-in with Georges leads to a friendship with the elderly gentleman's goddaughter, Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz), who unknowingly possesses the last item Hugo needs to make the mechanical man work again. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Category: Children's/Family

Awards: Best Sound Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound Mixing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – National Board of Review Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Director – Boston Society of Film Critics Top Ten Film of the Year – New York Film Critics Online Best Production Design – L.A. Film Critics Association Best Director – Detroit Film Critics Society Best Director (Runner-up) – L.A. Film Critics Association Best Picture – Detroit Film Critics Society Best Art Direction – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Visual Effects – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Cinematography – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Art Direction – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Sound – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Picture – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Director – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Score – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Young Actor/Actress – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Adapted Screenplay – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Editing – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Costume Design – Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Production Design – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Sound – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Sound – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Sound – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Original Score – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Cinematography – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Outstanding Directorial Achievement – Directors Guild of America Best Adapted Screenplay – Writers Guild of America Best Director – National Society of Film Critics Best Picture – Producers Guild of America Best Picture – Producers Guild of America Best Cinematography – National Society of Film Critics Best Art Direction in a Period Film – Art Directors Guild Best Cinematography – American Society of Cinematographers Best Edited Feature - Drama – American Cinema Editors Guild Best Director – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Sound – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Director – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Editing – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Sound Mixing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Music – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Production Design – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Special Visual Effects – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Special Visual Effects – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Makeup and Hair – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Costume Design – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Special Visual Effects – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Makeup and Hair – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Cinematography – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Visual Effects – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Costume Design – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Features: Shoot the moon: the making of Hugo
The cinemagicin Georges M?li?s
The mechanical man at the heart of Hugo
Big effect, small scale
Sacha Baron Cohen: Role of a lifetime

Hugo

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 02/28/2012

Audio: DHMA null, DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 126 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 2

Language(s) English,French,Spanish,Portuguese

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish,Portuguese

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Hugo
1. Chapter 1 [9:35]
2. Chapter 2 [7:44]
3. Chapter 3 [6:11]
4. Chapter 4 [7:01]
5. Chapter 5 [7:51]
6. Chapter 6 [9:09]
7. Chapter 7 [8:00]
8. Chapter 8 [8:05]
9. Chapter 9 [4:44]
10. Chapter 10 [4:17]
11. Chapter 11 [7:11]
12. Chapter 12 [7:10]
13. Chapter 13 [5:53]
14. Chapter 14 [9:37]
15. Chapter 15 [11:05]
16. Chapter 16 [6:10]

Perry Seibert

If you've never read Brian Selznick's award-winning children's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, hearing the news that Martin Scorsese was going to adapt the family-friendly classic probably sounded like a terrible mistake or a bad joke -- nobody expects the man responsible for Goodfellas, The Departed, and Taxi Driver to churn out the kind of movie that we associate with fast-food tie-ins. But for those who were familiar with Selznick's wondrous celebration of cinema's early days, that announcement couldn't have been more natural or expected. Thankfully, the movie delivers on its promise. The film stars Asa Butterfield, a young actor with the kind of eyes that trigger protective and parental instincts in any viewer, as Hugo Cabret, an orphan boy who lives in a Parisian train station in the 1930s. Sent to live with his drunken uncle after his father's death in a fire, Hugo learns how to wind the massive clocks that run throughout the station. When the uncle disappears one day, Hugo decides to maintain the clocks on his own, hoping nobody will catch on to his squatting in the station. His natural aptitude for engineering leads him to steal gears, tools, and other items from a toy-shop owner who maintains a storefront in the station. Hugo needs these purloined pieces in order to rebuild a mechanical man that was left in his father's care at a nearby museum -- the restoration was a project father and son did together. When Georges (Ben Kingsley), the old man who runs the toy stand, catches on to the thievery, he threatens to turn Hugo over to the station's lone police officer (Sacha Baron Cohen, stealing every one of his scenes with a performance that recalls Peter Sellers), whose ineptitude is matched only by his desire to send any parentless child he finds in his station to the orphanage. But Hugo's run-in with Georges leads to a friendship with the elderly gentleman's goddaughter, Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz), who unknowingly possesses the last item Hugo needs to make the mechanical man work again. While there's a great deal of plot in Hugo, the movie is primary a sensory experience. Scorsese's artful use of 3D turns the elaborate clockworks at the station into a labyrinth that Hugo traverses with a physical abandon that's amplified both by his age and his fear of being discovered. This is one of the more tactile films you'll see -- smoke, snowflakes, and dust particles blow through the frame, enhancing the 3D effects not because they fly in your face, but because they add depth to the images. If the film were any busier it would become exhausting to look at because there's just so much to take in, but right from the start, Scorsese balances all of the visual elements perfectly with a shot that compares the layout of Paris' streets to the gears of a clock. The visual splendor, of course, isn't an end unto itself. It's employed to tell a story very close to the director's heart -- a tale about finding and caring for old movies. Georges turns out to have had quite the fascinating life before ending up at the station, and while it's unfair to spoil the surprise for those who don't know, it's reasonable to say that Hugo is Scorsese's loving tribute to the building blocks of modern cinema. It's a history lesson that allows the modern master director to re-create some of the most-memorable images from the art form's first decade, as well as craft a tender movie about creating a family. The thought of Martin Scorsese fashioning a family-friendly film released into the thick of the overstuffed Thanksgiving movie season is just as odd as David Lynch making a movie for Disney -- but The Straight Story turned out pretty well for the Eraserhead auteur and the Mouse House. Hugo is also a success, a movie that will probably appeal more to hardcore film nerds than to nine-year-olds, unless of course that youngster will grow into a movie geek. If that's the case, Hugo will be a touchstone in their cinematic development. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Johnny Depp  Producer 
Barbara de Fina  Executive Producer 
Martin Scorsese  Director 
Martin Scorsese  Producer 
Howard Shore  Composer (Music Score) 
Georgia Kacandes  Executive Producer 
Graham King  Producer 
John Logan  Screenwriter 
David Crockett  Executive Producer 
Tim Headington  Producer 
Emma Tillinger Koskoff  Executive Producer 
Christi Dembrowski  Executive Producer 
Ben Kingsley  Actor 
Sacha Baron Cohen  Actor 
Asa Butterfield  Actor 
Chloë Grace Moretz  Actor 
Ray Winstone  Actor 
Emily Mortimer  Actor 
Christopher Lee  Actor 
Helen McCrory  Actor 
Michael Stuhlbarg  Actor 
Frances de la Tour  Actor 
Jude Law  Actor 
Kevin Eldon  Actor 
Gulliver McGrath  Actor 
Shaun Aylward  Actor 
Emil Lager  Actor 
Angus Barnett  Actor 
Edmund Kingsley  Actor 
Max Wrottesley  Actor 
Marco Aponte  Actor 
Ilona Cheshire  Actor 
Catherine Scorsese  Actor 
Emily Surgent  Actor 
Lily Carlson  Actor 
Frederick Warder  Actor 
Chrisos Lawson  Actor 
Tomos James  Actor 
Ed Sanders  Actor 
Terence Frisch  Actor 
Max Cane  Actor 
Frank Bourke  Actor 
Stephen Box  Actor 
Ben Addis  Actor 
Robert Gill  Actor 

Country: USA