Inkheart (film)

Inkheart is a 2008 BritishAmericanGerman family adventure fantasy 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 LindsayAbaire, music composed by Javier Navarrete and starring Brendan Fraser, Eliza Bennett, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Andy Serkis, Jim Broadbent, and Sienna Guillory. It is based on Cornelia Funkes novel of the same name. The film was released theatrically on December 12, 2008 in the UK and January 23, 2009 in the USA by New Line Cinema. Inkheart has received generally mixed reviews from critics and it earned 62,450,361 on a 60 million budget. Inkheart was released on DVD and Bluray in the United Kingdom on April 13, 2009. On January 12, 2009, a video game based on the film was released for the Nintendo DS.

Travelling across Italy, Mo takes Meggie on a visit to Meggies great aunt Elinor Helen Mirren, whereupon he reveals to Meggie why he fled from Dustfinger. While she was young, Mo read to her from Inkheart, inadvertently freeing Dustfinger as a result, due to a gift he possessed from birth, that marks him as a Silver Tongue. Unfortunately, his gift also freed the books villain Capricorn Andy Serkis and several of his henchman, but at the same time, losing Resa after being forced to flee with his infant daughter. Soon, Dustfinger reappears seeking Mo, accompanied by Capricorns minion, Basta Jamie Foreman, who quickly captures Mo and his family and takes back Inkheart, destroying Elinors valuable library in the process.The four are taken to Capricorns new castle in the real world, and imprisoned in the stables, which house various creatures from different storybooks, including the winged monkeys from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the minotaur from the story of Theseus, and a unicorn. During their imprisonment, Mo explains to Meggie and Elinor about his gift, stating that when he reads a person or an object out of a book, someone from the real world is sent into it, hence why his wife disappeared. Capricorn, interested in using his gift, forces Mo to read out items from books, causing him to get a stash of treasure from one of the stories in The Arabian Nights, while causing one of theThieves, named Farid Rafi Gavron, to be brought out as well and forced into imprisonment. Dustfinger, who believed he could get his chance to return into the book, quickly learns Capricorn tricked him, and so prompts a quick escape using the famous tornado from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz during the escape, he opts not to tell Mo that his wife Resa is in the village, but has lost her voice. ........

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