Charlie The Chocolate Factory (DVD) (UK Import)

Directed by Tim Burton

Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor, Missi Pyle, James Fox, Deep Roy, Christopher Lee, Adam Godley, Philip Weigratz, AnnaSophia Robb, Julia Winter
Contributors: Brad Grey, Richard D. Zanuck, John August, Danny Elfman, Philippe Rousselot, Graham Burke, Michael Siegel, Felicity Dahl, Patrick McCormick, Bruce Berman, Roald Dahl
Studio: Warner Bros. Home Ent.
Genre: Feature
Main Language: English
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 2
Release Date: 16 Mar 2009
Originally Issued: 2005
No of Discs: 1
BBFC Cert: (PG) Parental Guidance.
Run Time: 106 minutes

Description

Family adventure based on the novel by Roald Dahl. The film centres around an eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp), and Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore), a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory. Most nights in the Bucket home, dinner is a watered-down bowl of cabbage soup, which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother (Helena Bonham Carter) and father (Noah Taylor) and both pairs of grandparents.

They all live in a tiny, tumbledown, drafty old house but it is filled with love. Every night, the last thing Charlie sees from his window is the great factory, and he drifts off to sleep dreaming about what might be inside. For nearly fifteen years, no one has seen a single worker going in or coming out of the factory, or caught a glimpse of Willy Wonka himself, yet, mysteriously, great quantities of chocolate are still being made and shipped to shops all over the world.

One day Willy Wonka makes a momentous announcement. He will open his famous factory and reveal 'all of its secrets and magic' to five lucky children who find golden tickets hidden inside five randomly selected Wonka chocolate bars. When Charlie finds some money on the snowy street and takes it to the nearest store for a Wonka Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight he finds a golden ticket.

The family decides that Grandpa Joe (David Kelly) should be the one to accompany Charlie on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Once inside, Charlie is dazzled by one amazing sight after another.

Special Features

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