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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.
Two film versions of Roald Dahl's classic children's novel
collected together in one set. In 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate
Factory' (1971), directed by Mel Stuart, young Charlie Bucket
(Peter Ostrum) wins one of the coveted 'Golden Tickets' from a
Wonka Bar that allows its holder to take a trip around the
eccentric Willy Wonka's (Gene Wilder) Chocolate Factory. Charlie
and the rest of the winners find themselves in a magical world of
chocolate rivers, Oompa Loompas, everlasting gobstoppers, lickable
wall-paper, golden egg-laying geese and chilling tales to warn
children not to misbehave. Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay from his
own book. In Tim Burton's expansive remake, 'Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory' (2005), Freddie Highmore plays Charlie, whilst
Johnny Depp takes on the role of Wonka.
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Corpse Bride (Blu-ray disc)
Joanna Lumley, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, …
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Animated adventure from popular director Tim Burton. Set in a 19th
century European village, the film follows the story of Victor
(voiced by Johnny Depp), a young man who is whisked away to the
underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride (Helena Bonham
Carter), while his real bride, Victoria (Emily Watson), waits
bereft in the land of the living. Though life in the Land of the
Dead proves to be a lot more colourful than his strict Victorian
upbringing, Victor learns that there is nothing in this world, or
the next, that can keep him away from his one true love.
Tim Burton's Academy Award-nominated black and white stop-motion
homage to Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' is a remake of his 1984
short of the same name. The story follows a young boy called Victor
(voiced by Charlie Tahan), who harnesses the powers of science to
bring his beloved pet dog, Sparky, back to life - with unexpected
and alarming consequences. The film also features the voice talents
of Winona Ryder, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara and Martin Landau.
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Tim Burton Collection (DVD)
William Hickey, Edward Ivory, Martin Short, Mia Wasikowska, Matt Lucas, …
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Collection of four Tim Burton films. The stop-motion animated
musical 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' (1993), produced and
visualised by Tim Burton, is set in a parallel world where
different lands represent different holiday periods. Skeleton Jack
(voice of Chris Sarandon) from Halloween Town becomes converted to
Christmas and sets out to spread joy in the world. However, when
Jack's mission leads him to kidnap Santa (voice of Edward Ivory) it
becomes clear that he is not really in tune with the Yuletide
spirit. In 'Alice in Wonderland' (2010), based on the characters
from the Lewis Carroll classics 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'
and 'Through the Looking Glass', the 19-year-old Alice (Mia
Wasikowska) returns to the magical world of her childhood adventure
to reunite with her friends the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), the White
Rabbit (Michael Sheen), Tweedledum and Tweedledee (both played by
Matt Lucas), the Dormouse (Barbara Windsor), the Caterpillar (Alan
Rickman) and the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry). Alice discovers her
true destiny as she joins forces with the colourful denizens of
Wonderland to overthrow the wicked Red Queen (Helena Bonham
Carter). 'Frankenweenie' (2012), Burton's black and white
stop-motion homage to Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', is a remake of
his 1984 short of the same name. The story follows a young boy
called Victor (voice of Charlie Tahan), who harnesses the powers of
science to bring his beloved pet dog Sparky back to life - with
unexpected and alarming consequences. 'Ed Wood' (1994) is a biopic
of one of Hollywood's worst film directors. Setting up shop in
Tinseltown with plenty of enthusiasm but no discernible talent, Ed
Wood (Depp) is undeterred when his debut feature, cross-dressing
drama 'Glen Or Glenda' (in which he also stars) is a flop. He goes
on to make 'Bride of the Monster', also a commercial and creative
disaster, with ailing horror star Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau),
before embarking on his most grandiose scheme yet: 'Plan 9 from
Outer Space'...
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