Les Misérables (2012)
Genres: Musical, Historical
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Eddie Redmayne, Colm Wilkinson, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Samantha Barks, Isabelle Allen, Aaron Tveit, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Daniel Huttlestone, Frances Ruffelle, Hadley Fraser, Gina Beck, Michael Jibson, Bertie Carvel, Stephen Tate, George Blagden, Killian Donnelly, Fra Fee, Alistair Brammer, Hugh Skinner, Iwan Lewis, Julian Bleach, Kate Fleetwood, Hannah Waddingham, Daniel Evans, Kerry Ellis
Les Misérables is a 2012 epic period musical film directed by Tom Hooper from a screenplay by William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, who wrote the original French lyrics, Claude-Michel Schönberg, who wrote the music, and Herbert Kretzmer, who wrote the English lyrics. The film is based on Kretzmer's 1985 West End English translation of the 1980 French musical by Boublil and Schönberg, which itself is adapted from the 1862 French novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. The film is a British-American venture distributed by Universal Pictures. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried, Helena Bonham Carter, and Sacha Baron Cohen.