Tagline: Every story ever written is just waiting to become real.
Based on the book by Cornelia Funke, “Inkheart” is a timeless adventure tale of imagination that centers on Meggie, a young girl whose father has a secret ability to bring characters from books to life when he reads them aloud. But when a power-hungry villain from a rare children’s fable kidnaps Meggie’s father to bring others out of the boundaries of fiction, she and a disparate group of friends both real and magic embark on the kind of adventure she has only read about in books to save him and set things right.
Mo Folchart (Brendan Fraiser) drags his daughter Meggie (Eliza Hope Bennet) all around the world. At the last home, an old enigmatic acquaintence of Mo’s shows up named Dustfinger (Paul Bettany). All of a sudden the next morning Mo packs up and leaves with Meggie without telling her what is going on. They travel to Meggie’s Great Aunt Eleanor’s (Helen Mirren) house to stay at. Then one night a bunch of thugs arrive at the ohouse and kidnap Mo to take him to see Capricorn (Andy Serkis), a cruel and evil dictator. Meggie soon finds out that Mo has the ability to read characters out of books. The only drawback is that when he brings something out of a story, something must go back in to replace it. this is how maggie lost her mother Theresa (guillory) and Capricorn and Dustfinger are characters from a book called Inkheart.
Determined to get Mo back, Meggie sets out with Eleanor to Capricorn’s village. However, in short of arriving there, both women are also abducted and locked up with Mo. Dustfinger soon comes to the rescue and smuggles them out with a boy who also came out of a book named Farid (Gavron). Now the Group of them must find away to get another copy of Inkheart to send Capricorn and his thieves back into it’s pages.
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Inkheart
Starring by: Brendan Fraser, Eliza Hope Paul Bettany, Eliza Hope Bennett, Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Andy Serkis, Rafi Gavron, Sienna Guillory, Mirabel O’Keefe
Directed by: Iain Softley
Screenplay by: David Lindsay-Abaire
Release Date: January 23, 2009
MPAA Rating: PG for fantasy adventure action, some scary moments and brief language.
Studio: New Line Cinema
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $17,303,424 (30.4%)
Foreign: $39,671,804 (69.6%)
Total: $56,975,228 (Worldwide)