Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)
(Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
Country: US/GB
Technical: Technicolor/Super 35 152m
Director: Chris Columbus
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, Ian Hart, John Hurt, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Zoë Wanamaker
Synopsis:
Orphaned by an evil wizard, and gifted with the prodigious powers of his parents, young Harry is rescued from a miserable upbringing at the hands of his uncle and aunt and taken to be schooled at Hogwarts college of magic. There he and his friends become embroiled in the struggle for possession of a stone that yields an elixir of eternal life to the keeper.
Review:
First in a presumed series of films based on the phenomenally successful books by J. K. Rowling, this adventure story along the lines of Young Sherlock Holmes delivers the wonted family movie pleasures, albeit with somewhat less for the adult viewer than many an American animated feature. The special effects are, by now, predictably impressive so that they barely distract from the story in hand, though anyone who has worked in education will gasp both at the risk assessment omissions and the injustice of the final contrivance, whereby the headmaster hands over the house cup to the favourites by virtue of some last-minute points rigging. The film was eclipsed at the box office and, it is to be expected, in the memory by the structurally similar Lord of the Rings.
(Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
Country: US/GB
Technical: Technicolor/Super 35 152m
Director: Chris Columbus
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, Ian Hart, John Hurt, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Zoë Wanamaker
Synopsis:
Orphaned by an evil wizard, and gifted with the prodigious powers of his parents, young Harry is rescued from a miserable upbringing at the hands of his uncle and aunt and taken to be schooled at Hogwarts college of magic. There he and his friends become embroiled in the struggle for possession of a stone that yields an elixir of eternal life to the keeper.
Review:
First in a presumed series of films based on the phenomenally successful books by J. K. Rowling, this adventure story along the lines of Young Sherlock Holmes delivers the wonted family movie pleasures, albeit with somewhat less for the adult viewer than many an American animated feature. The special effects are, by now, predictably impressive so that they barely distract from the story in hand, though anyone who has worked in education will gasp both at the risk assessment omissions and the injustice of the final contrivance, whereby the headmaster hands over the house cup to the favourites by virtue of some last-minute points rigging. The film was eclipsed at the box office and, it is to be expected, in the memory by the structurally similar Lord of the Rings.
(Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
Country: US/GB
Technical: Technicolor/Super 35 152m
Director: Chris Columbus
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, Ian Hart, John Hurt, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Zoë Wanamaker
Synopsis:
Orphaned by an evil wizard, and gifted with the prodigious powers of his parents, young Harry is rescued from a miserable upbringing at the hands of his uncle and aunt and taken to be schooled at Hogwarts college of magic. There he and his friends become embroiled in the struggle for possession of a stone that yields an elixir of eternal life to the keeper.
Review:
First in a presumed series of films based on the phenomenally successful books by J. K. Rowling, this adventure story along the lines of Young Sherlock Holmes delivers the wonted family movie pleasures, albeit with somewhat less for the adult viewer than many an American animated feature. The special effects are, by now, predictably impressive so that they barely distract from the story in hand, though anyone who has worked in education will gasp both at the risk assessment omissions and the injustice of the final contrivance, whereby the headmaster hands over the house cup to the favourites by virtue of some last-minute points rigging. The film was eclipsed at the box office and, it is to be expected, in the memory by the structurally similar Lord of the Rings.