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Hugo (movie)

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Hugo
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Directed byMartin Scorsese
Screenplay by
  • John Logan
Based onThe Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Selznick
Produced byGraham King
Starring
CinematographyRobert Richardson
Edited byThelma Schoonmaker
Music byHoward Shore
Production
companies
  • Infinitum Nihil
  • GK Films
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release dates
  • October 10, 2011 (2011-10-10) (NYFF)
  • November 23, 2011 (2011-11-23) (United States)
Running time
126 minutes[1][2][3]
CountryUnited States[1][4][5]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$150–170 million[6]
Box office$185.8 million[7]

Hugo is a 2011 American adventure drama movie that is based on Brian Selznick's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The movie is about a boy who lives alone in a Paris railway station and the owner of a toy shop there. It was directed by Martin Scorsese, while the screenwriter was John Logan. It is a co-production of Graham King's GK Films and Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil. It stars Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, and Jude Law.

Hugo is Scorsese's first movie to be shot in 3D.

Plot

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In 1931, Hugo Cabret is a 12-year-old boy who lives with his father, a widowed, but kind and devoted master clockmaker in Paris. Hugo's father takes him to see movies and he loves the movies of Georges Méliès best of all. Hugo's father is burned alive 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 of Gare Montparnasse. His uncle teaches him to take care of the clocks, then disappears. Hugo lives between the walls of the station, maintaining the clocks, stealing food and working on his father's most ambitious project: repairing a broken automaton – a mechanical man who is supposed to write with a pen. 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 to 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. He introduces Isabelle to the movies, which her godfather has never let her see. Isabelle turns out to have the key to the automaton. When they use the key to activate the automaton, it produces a drawing of a movie scene Hugo remembers his father telling him about. They discover that the movie 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 lovers who have come to appreciate his work

Cast

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Top ten lists

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The movie appeared on the following critics' top ten lists for the best movies of 2011:[source?]

Critic Publication Rank
David DenbyThe New Yorker1st
Harry KnowlesAint It Cool News1st[8]
Noel MurrayA.V. Club2nd
Glenn KennyMSN Movies2nd
Peter HartlaubSan Francisco Chronicle2nd
Richard CorlissTime2nd
Roger EbertChicago Sun-Times4th
Lisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment Weekly4th
Richard BrodyThe New Yorker4th
Peter ParasE! Online5th
N/aMTV5th
Keith PhippsA.V. Club6th
Todd McCarthyThe Hollywood Reporter6th
Peter TraversRolling Stone6th
N/aTV Guide7th
J. HobermanVillage Voice8th
Mark KermodeBBC Radio 5 Live9th
Kim MorganMSN Movies9th
Sean AxmakerMSN Movies10th
Glenn Heath Jr.Slant Magazine10th
Jeff SimonThe Buffalo NewsN/a
Manohla DargisThe New York TimesN/a
Phillip FrenchThe ObserverN/a

References

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  1. 1 2 "HUGO". British Board of Film Classification. November 25, 2011. Archived from the original on November 10, 2014. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Hugo (2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. n.d. Retrieved February 16, 2026.
  3. ↑ Ebert, Roger. "Hugo Review". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
  4. ↑ "Hugo (2011)". American Film Institute. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Film #37098: Hugo". Lumiere. Retrieved February 23, 2020.
  6. ↑ Kaufman, Amy (November 24, 2011). "Movie Projector: 'Breaking Dawn' to devour three new family films". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 24, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Hugo (2011)". Box Office Mojo. April 12, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2012.
  8. ↑ Knowles, Harry (2012-01-06). "Harry's Top Ten Films of 2011..." Retrieved 2012-01-24.
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