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Inkheart (DVD) (US Version) DVD Region 1

Brendan Fraser (Actor) | Ryan Phillippe (Actor) | David Bradley (Actor) | Brian Helgeland (Actor)
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Inkheart (DVD) (US Version)

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Cornelia Funke’s best-selling novel, INKHEART, comes to life in director Iain Softley’s (THE SKELETON KEY, THE WINGS OF THE DOVE) feature-film adaptation of the same name. For 12 years, bookbinder Mo (Brendan Fraser) and his daughter, Meggie (Eliza Hope Bennett), have been traveling the world, poking around secondhand bookstores. Meggie correctly assumes that her father is looking for her mother, Resa (Sienna Guillory), who disappeared without a trace. What Meggie doesn’t know is that Mo is a Silvertongue, and when he reads a story aloud, the details and characters come to vivid life. But when a character comes out of a book, someone has to go back in, and Mo is searching a copy of the book, titled "Inkheart," into which Resa literally disappeared. When Mo read the story aloud, unaware of his powers, she was sucked into the story, and the fantastical novel’s villainous characters were released. Now, Mo and Meggie have to keep evil Capricorn and his henchmen from realizing their diabolical plot, and send everyone back where they belong. INKHEART is awash with colorful details. Capricorn has had to make do with a stuttering Silvertongue who delivers characters that are half-read: text from the book is tattooed on their faces, or they suffer some other malady, emerging from the book mute or with an odd physical feature. Paul Bettany is engaging as Dustfinger, a character who desperately wants to be read back into "Inkheart" and return to his family, portrayed by Bettany’s real-life love, Jennifer Connelly, in a miss-her-if-you-blink performance. Helen Mirren is good fun as eccentric, feisty bibliophile Aunt Elinor, and Jim Broadbent appears as the novel’s author, who is enthralled by the possibilities of Mo’s gift.

3 stars out of 5 -- "Smartly directed by Iain Softley, who skips easily from comedy to fantasy to action, INKHEART gets by on a rich cast of supporting characters, a unique and intriguing look, and a good, big scary monster at the end." - Kim, Newman (Film Critic), Empire, 01/01/2009

"Based on Cornelia Funke's popular children's novel, this fantasy adventure saga has appealing moments, striking production design and a strong, mostly British cast." - Claudia, Puig (USA TODAY CRITIC), USA Today, 01/24/2009

"The story is a whirl, a jumble, an effusion....There are close calls, weird whispers, amusing throwaway lines, the ditherings of a distractible author, and cartoon violence undertaken by misshapen scary-comic evil henchmen." -- Grade: B - Lisa, Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly Critic), Entertainment Weekly, 01/30/2009

"The aesthetics of INKHEART are part of what make it such a surprisingly enjoyable experience to watch....Bettany's performance is nothing short of a revelation." - Washington Post, 01/23/2009

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Product Title: Inkheart (DVD) (US Version) Inkheart (DVD) (美國版) Inkheart (DVD) (美国版) Inkheart (US Version) Inkheart (US Version)
Artist Name(s): Brendan Fraser (Actor) | Ryan Phillippe (Actor) | David Bradley (Actor) | Brian Helgeland (Actor) | Colin Firth (Actor) | Rachel Cohn | Andy Serkis | Toby Emmerich | Javier Navarrete 白蘭頓菲沙 (Actor) | 賴恩菲臘 (Actor) | David Bradley (Actor) | Brian Helgeland (Actor) | Colin Firth (Actor) | Rachel Cohn | Andy Serkis | Toby Emmerich | Javier Navarrete 白兰顿菲沙 (Actor) | 赖恩菲腊 (Actor) | David Bradley (Actor) | Brian Helgeland (Actor) | Colin Firth (Actor) | Rachel Cohn | Andy Serkis | Toby Emmerich | Javier Navarrete ブレンダン・フレイザー (Actor) | Ryan Phillippe (Actor) | David Bradley (Actor) | Brian Helgeland (Actor) | Colin Firth (Actor) | Rachel Cohn | Andy Serkis | Toby Emmerich | Javier Navarrete Brendan Fraser (Actor) | Ryan Phillippe (Actor) | David Bradley (Actor) | Brian Helgeland (Actor) | Colin Firth (Actor) | Rachel Cohn | Andy Serkis | Toby Emmerich | Javier Navarrete
Director: John Mathieson John Mathieson John Mathieson John Mathieson John Mathieson
Producer: Cornelia Funke | John Mathieson Cornelia Funke | John Mathieson Cornelia Funke | John Mathieson Cornelia Funke | John Mathieson Cornelia Funke | John Mathieson
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Release Date: 2009-06-23
UPC Code: 794043127311
Country of Origin: United States
Picture Format: NTSC What is it?
Color Information: Color
Disc Format(s): DVD
Region Code: 1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating: PG (MPAA)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Package Weight: 110 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1019924667

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Director: Iain Softley

DVD Features:

Region [unknown]
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
(unspecified) English
Additional Release Material:
Featurette
1. A Story from the Cast and Crew [Playing the game "tell me a story," Novelist Cornelia Funke starts the cast & crew off on this wild adventure by giving the first line,"I discovered the hole under my bed on my thirtenth birthday…."
2. 2. Eliza Reads to Us [Actress Eliza Bennett ("Meggie Folchart") shares one of her favorite passages from the book that did not end up in the movie accompanied by Cornelia illustrations of the story]

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