MirrorMask


MirrorMask is a 2005 fantasy film designed and directed by Dave McKean and written by Neil Gaiman from a story they developed together, starring Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, and Gina McKee. The music used in the film was composed by Iain Ballamy.

Helena Stephanie Leonidas works with her parents Gina McKee and Rob Brydon at their family circus, but desires to run away and join real life. At the next performance, after Helena and her mother have a heated argument, Helenas mother collapses and is taken to the hospital. Ten days later, while Helena is staying with her grandmother, she finds that the doctors determine that Helenas mother requires an operation, and Helena can only blame herself for the situation. That night, she wakes up in a dreamlike state and leaves her building to find three performers outside. As they try to perform for Helena, a shadow encroaches on the area and two of the performers are consumed by it. The third performer, Valentine Jason Barry, a juggler, helps to quickly direct Helena to safety through the use of magical flying books. She learns they are in the City of Light which is slowly being consumed by shadows, causing its widelyvaried citizens to flee. Soon Helena is mistaken for the Princess. She and Valentine are taken to the Prime Minister Brydon. He explains that the Princess from the Land of Shadow stole a charm from the City of Light, leaving their White Queen McKee in a state of unnatural sleep and the City vulnerable to the Shadows. Helena notes the resemblance of the Queen and Minister to her mother and father, and offers to help recover the charm along with Valentine. They are unaware their actions are being watched by the Queen of Shadows also McKee who has mistaken Helena as the Princess of the Land of Shadows.Helena and Valentine attempt to stay ahead of the shadows as they follow clues to the charm, learning that it is called MirrorMask. Helena discovers that by looking through the windows of the buildings, she can see into her bedroom in the real world, through the drawings of windows that she created and hung on the wall of her room. She discovers that a doppelganger of herself is living there and behaving radically different from her. The doppelganger soon becomes

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