Inkheart is a 2008 fantasy adventure film directed by Iain Softley, produced by Cornelia Funke, Dylan Cuva, Sarah Wang, Ute Leonhardt, Toby Emmerich, Mark Ordesky, Ileen Maisel and Andrew Licht, written by David Lindsay-Abaire, music composed by Javier Navarrete and starring Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis, and Eliza Bennett. It is based on Cornelia Funke’s 2003 novel of the same name.
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This is a movie based on book (actually a series, it’s in my to-read list) about a family with a very special gift – they read characters out of a story book, but it takes someone from the real world to replace them in the book.
This leads to some rather dangerous situations, when Mo is reading a bedtime story to his young daughter, Meggie, it takes her mother, Resa, and brings out three characters: Dustfinger, Capricorn, and Basta. Capricorn ending up being the villain of that story, and the current plot.
The family is taken hostage and forced to… read books.
Yeah, it’s a little weird, but I’m thinking the books are better than the movie which is usually the case. I’ll let you know when I get around to reading them. Brendan Fraser is always fun to watch on screen though.
My Rating: ★ ★
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