Hugo (movie)

***Hugo*** is a 2011 American 3D adventure drama movie that is based on Brian Selznick's novel _The Invention of Hugo Cabret_. The movie is about a boy who lives alone in a Paris railway station and the owner of a toy shop there. It was directed by Martin Scorsese, while the screenwriter was John Logan. It is a co-production of Graham King's GK Films and Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil. It stars Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, and Jude Law.

_Hugo_ is Scorsese's first movie to be shot in 3D.

## Plot

In 1931, Hugo Cabret is a 12-year-old boy who lives with his father, a widowed, but kind and devoted master clockmaker in Paris. Hugo's father takes him to see movies and he loves the movies of Georges Méliès best of all. Hugo's father is burned alive in a museum fire, and Hugo is taken away by his uncle, an alcoholic watchmaker who is responsible for maintaining the clocks in the railway station of Gare Montparnasse. His uncle teaches him to take care of the clocks, then disappears. Hugo lives between the walls of the station, maintaining the clocks, stealing food and working on his father's most ambitious project: repairing a broken automaton – a mechanical man who is supposed to write with a pen. Hugo steals mechanical parts in the station to repair the automaton, but he is caught by a toy store owner who takes away Hugo's blueprints for the automaton. The automaton is missing one part – a heart–shaped key. Convinced that the automaton contains a message from his father, Hugo goes to desperate lengths to fix the machine. He gains the assistance of Isabelle, a girl close to his age and the goddaughter of the toy shop owner. He introduces Isabelle to the movies, which her godfather has never let her see. Isabelle turns out to have the key to the automaton. When they use the key to activate the automaton, it produces a drawing of a movie scene Hugo remembers his father telling him about. They discover that the movie was created by Georges Méliès, Isabelle's godfather, an early – but now neglected and disillusioned – cinema legend, and that the automaton was a beloved creation of his, from his days as a magician. In the end, the children reconnect Georges with his past and with a new generation of cinema lovers who have come to appreciate his work

## Cast

- Asa Butterfield as Hugo Cabret
- Ben Kingsley as Georges Méliès
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Isabelle
- Sacha Baron Cohen as Inspector
- Jude Law as Archibald Cabret
- Christopher Lee as Monsieur
- Helen McCrory as Mama Jeanne
- Ray Winstone as Claude Cabret
- Michael Stuhlbarg as René Tabard
- Emily Mortimer as Lisette, the flower girl
- Frances de la Tour as Madame Emile
- Richard Griffiths as Monsieur Frick\
- Marco Aponte as train engineer assistant
- Emil Lager as Django Reinhardt, the guitarist

## Top ten lists

The movie appeared on the following critics' top ten lists for the best movies of 2011:
|Critic|Publication|Rank|
| --- | --- | --- |
|David Denby|_The New Yorker_|1st|
|Harry Knowles|_Aint It Cool News_|1st|
|Noel Murray|A.V. Club|2nd|
|Glenn Kenny|MSN Movies|2nd|
|Peter Hartlaub|_San Francisco Chronicle_|2nd|
|Richard Corliss|_Time_|2nd|
|Roger Ebert|_Chicago Sun-Times_|4th|
|Lisa Schwarzbaum|_Entertainment Weekly_|4th|
|Richard Brody|_The New Yorker_|4th|
|Peter Paras|E! Online|5th|
||MTV|5th|
|Keith Phipps|A.V. Club|6th|
|Todd McCarthy|_The Hollywood Reporter_|6th|
|Peter Travers|_Rolling Stone_|6th|
||_TV Guide_|7th|
|J. Hoberman|_Village Voice_|8th|
|Mark Kermode|BBC Radio 5 Live|9th|
|Kim Morgan|MSN Movies|9th|
|Sean Axmaker|MSN Movies|10th|
|Glenn Heath Jr.|Slant Magazine|10th|
|Jeff Simon|_The Buffalo News_||
|Manohla Dargis|_The New York Times_||
|Phillip French|_The Observer_||

## Infobox (movie)

- **name**: Hugo
- **director**: Martin Scorsese
- **producer**: Graham King
- **starring**: Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield, Jude Law
- **music**: Howard Shore
- **studio**: Graham King, GK Films
Infinitum Nihil
- **distributor**: Paramount Pictures
- **runtime**: 126 minutes
- **country**: United States
- **language**: English
- **gross**: $83,611,561