Every story ever written is just waiting to become real.
| Cast |
Brendan Fraser, Sienna Guillory, Eliza Bennet, Richard Strange, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Rafi Gavron, Matt King, Steve Speirs |
| Director |
Iain Softley |
| Screenplay | David Lindsay-Abaire, from the novel by Cornelia Funke |
| Music | Javier Navarrete |
| Cinematography | Roger Pratt |
| Editing | Martin Walsh |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Made in | 2008 |
| Produced by | Internationale Filmproduktion Blackbird Dritte, New Line Cinema |
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| Genre | Children's animated, fantasy |
| Language | None |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Some fantastical, though frighteningly implied scenes |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | A fair amount of suspense, threat and menace which could frighten younger viewers. |
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| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Kirk Honeycutt | 5 |  |
| Cape Times Michael Sragow | 5 | |
| The Citizen Leon van Nierop  Seldom before has a product with such good intentions and such a respected cast failed to deliver on such a grand scale. | 8 |  |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert I never knew reading was so dangerous. | 10 | |
| eye Weekly Chris Bilton Inkheart’s fantasy-meets-reality is a little like The Brothers Grimm crossed with Jumanji and yet, surprisingly, the film relies less on the CG-spawned fantasy folk and more on quality acting to prod the plot along. | 10 | |
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs | 11 |  |
| Metacritic.com 28 critics | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 115 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Heavy on cliches and light on charm, this kid-lit fantasy-adventure doesn't quite get off the ground. | 7 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 2275 Netizens | 13 | |
Average .. 44% | 9 | |