Shattered Illusions

Shattered Illusions (砕かれた幻想, Kudaka reta Gensō) is a 2008 anime crime drama thriller film directed by Hisashi Fukushima and written by Raiden Matsuda, in their third collaboration after Shadows of Destiny and Whispers of the Ghost. The film stars Liam Aiken, Xzibit, Clive Owen, Lauren Graham, Daviegh Chase, Anton Yelchin, Alexa Nikolas, Keke Palmer, Jason Alexander, Milla Jovovich, Danny Huston and Crispin Glover. Its plotline is about a boy named Stanley Pierce (Aiken), the pampered son of a rich family, who's life is ultimately turned upside down when his parents are arrested by the SWAT Team for their involvement in a major trafficking ring. As he was completely out of the loop and to protect him from the enemies the Pierces have made, Stanely is put into the Witness Protection Program, and his relocated to Colorado to live with another rich family, the Sinclairs, under the new name of Jimmy Garner. Whilst trying to adjust to his new life, Stanley/Jimmy does not know that the ring is plotting something dangerous in revenge.
Shattered Illusions was Hisashi Fukushima and Raiden Matsuda's first film not to be animated by Bee Train, instead being animated by Shaft, as well as their first film not to feature any fantasy elements, instead going for a more grounded storyline. It was co-produced by Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, Millennium Films and Anonymous Content, and distributed by Tohokushinsha Film Corporation in Japan and by Paramount Pictures and LIVE Entertainment in the United States. The film was released to theaters in the United States on April 11, 2008 and in Japan on May 17, 2008, to generally positive reviews for the film's tone, characters, animation and voice acting, and grossed $186.3 million against a budget of $25 million. It was nominated an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to WALL-E.
==Plot==
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==Cast==
*Liam Aiken as Stanley Pierce/Jimmy Garner
*Xzibit as Agent Russell Coleman
*Clive Owen as Tom Sinclair
*Lauren Graham as Shannon Sinclair
*Daveigh Chase as Emma Sinclair
*Anton Yelchin as Jake Stevenson
*Alexa Nikolas as Christine Simon
*Keke Palmer as Madison Cooper
*Jason Alexander as Robert Pierce
*Milla Jovovich as Jessica Pierce
*Danny Huston as Victor Reyes
*Crispin Glover as Chase Schmidt
*Kevin Michael Richardson, John DiMaggio, Fred Tatasciore, Dee Bradley Baker as the SWAT Team members
*Jamieson Price as the chief of the SWAT Team
*Jim Cummings as Donald Willory
*Beth Grant as Jewel Pearson
*James Arnold Taylor, Steve Staley, Kate Higgins, Yuri Lowenthal and Jessica DiCicco as additional students
*Nicholas Guest as the chief of police
*Steve Blum as a news reporter
===Additional voices===
*Andrea Baker
*Richard Cansino
*Tom Kenny
*Peter Renaday
*Edie Mirman
*Jonathan Nicholls
*Rif Hutton
*Steve Bulen
*Jason Harris Katz
*Nicholas Guest
*Kath Soucie
*Cam Clarke
==Release==
===Distribution and marketing===
While Tohokushinsha Film Corporation distributed the film in Japan, Millennium Films' owner, Nu Image, handled the distribution sales outside of Japan, with the distribution sales helping the overall budget. After an early test screening, the film caught the attention of director and producer Garrett Fredrickson, who paid $6 million to acquire the American distribution rights through his production company, LIVE Entertainment, and its subsidiary LIVE Licensing. This marked LIVE's first acquisition not to be a fully Japanese-produced anime feature, as well as their first English language acquisition. LIVE distributed the film through LIVE Licensing's distribution arrangement with Paramount Pictures, with LIVE paying for the P&A expenses and Paramount receiving a distribution fee for use of its distribution services. Paramount also purchased the distribution rights for the United Kingdom. Outside of these territories, Millennium distributed the film through their various partners across the world, including Sony Pictures Releasing International in Australia, Gussi Films in Mexico, Metropolitan Filmexport in France, Warner Bros. Pictures in Germany, Filmax in Spain, 01 Distribution in Italy, Benelux Film Distributors in the Netherlands, Özen Film in Turkey, Scanbox Entertainment in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, Bioscop in the Czech Republic, Central Partnership in Russia and Ukraine and Lotte Entertainment in South Korea.
For the film's American release, LIVE Entertainment produced a trailer to promote it, which was attached to the theatrical release of another Paramount film, Stardust, on August 10, 2007. It was also attached to the theatrical releases of Death at a Funeral, The Last Legion, Superbad, The Invasion, War, Resurrecting the Champ, Bordertown, Death Sentence, Balls of Fury, Halloween, Shoot 'Em Up, 3:10 to Yuma, The Brave One, Resident Evil: Extinction, Into the Wild, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Kingdom, Michael Clayton, The Heartbreak Kid, We Own the Night, Rendition, Reservation Road, 30 Days of Night, Gone Baby Gone, and Saw VI. Another trailer premiered before The Kite Runner on December 14, 2007, and was also attached to the theatrical releases of P.S. I Love You, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Charlie Wilson's War, AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem, The Bucket List, There Will Be Blood, One Missed Call, Cloverfield, Cassandra's Dream, Mad Money, Rambo, Persepolis, Untraceable, Strange Wilderness, The Eye, Fool's Gold, Jumper, Definitely, Maybe, Witless Protection, Vantage Point, Charlie Bartlett, Be Kind, Rewind, City of Men, Semi-Pro, The Bank Job and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Both trailers featured the song How to Save a Life by The Fray.
A website for the film was launched that same year, with features such as bios and filmographies on the cast and filmmakers, a snyposis on the film, production notes, a stills gallery, a downloadable screensaver, and the film's trailers. The movie's TV spots first began being released in March and aired through May. Similar to how they did for Whispers of the Ghost, Kadokawa published a manga adaptation of the film to tie in with its Japanese release.
=== Theatrical release ===
The film had it's theatrical premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on April 6, 2008, before being released to theaters in the United States on April 11, 2008, with LIVE and Paramount booking it in 2,574 theaters across America. Tohokushinsha Film Corporation later released the film in Japan on May 17, 2008.
=== Home media ===
On August 12, 2008, Paramount Home Entertainment and LIVE Entertainment released the film on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States. Both releases came in 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen and contained a Dolby Digital 5.1 track. The releases also included a number of special features, such as film previews, two featurettes, one on the film's production and another on the voice cast, three deleted scenes and a storyboard to film comparison. A Japanese DVD of the film was released by Tohokushinsha Film Corporation on December 10, 2008, containg the same bonus features as the American DVD, but with two additional featurettes and the choices of Japanese and English soundtracks.
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