Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Cast & Crew
Tim Burton
Johnny Depp
Freddie Highmore
David Kelly
Helena Bonham Carter
Blair Dunlop
Film Details
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Synopsis
Most nights in the Bucket home, dinner is a watered-down bowl of cabbage soup, which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother and father and both pairs of grandparents. Every night, the last thing Charlie sees from his window is Willy Wonka's great factory, and he drifts off to sleep dreaming about what might be inside. For nearly fifteen years, no one has seen a single worker going in or coming out of the factory, or caught a glimpse of Wonka himself, yet, great quantities of chocolate are still being made and shipped all over the world. One day Willy Wonka makes a momentous announcement. He will open his famous factory and reveal "all of its secrets and magic" to five lucky children who find golden tickets hidden inside five randomly selected Wonka chocolate bars. Nothing would make Charlie's family happier than to see him win but the odds are very much against him as they can only afford to buy one chocolate bar a year, for his birthday. One by one, news breaks around the world about the children finding golden tickets and Charlie's hope grows dimmer. But then, something wonderful happens. Charlie finds some money on the snowy street and takes it to the nearest store for a Wonka Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight. There, under the wrapper is a flash of gold. It's the last ticket. Charlie is going to the factory! The family decides that Grandpa Joe, who used to work in the factory, should be the one to accompany Charlie on this adventure. Once inside, Charlie is dazzled by one amazing sight after another. Wondrous gleaming contraptions of Wonka's own invention churn, pop, and whistle, crews of merry Oompa-Loompas mine mountains of fudge beside a frothy chocolate waterfall, a hundred trained squirrels on a hundred tiny stools shell nuts for chocolate bars, and Wonka himself pilots an impossible glass elevator that rockets every which way you can think of through the fantastic factory. Almost as intriguing as his fanciful inventions is Willy Wonka. He thinks about nothing but candy--except, every once in a while, when he seems to be thinking about something that happened long ago, that he can't quite talk about. Meanwhile, the other children prove to be a rotten bunch, and one by one, their greedy personalities lead them into all kinds of trouble that force them off the tour. When only Charlie is left, Willie Wonka reveals the final secret, the absolute grandest prize of all: the keys to the factory itself.
Director
Tim Burton
Cast
Johnny Depp
Freddie Highmore
David Kelly
Helena Bonham Carter
Blair Dunlop
Hubertus Geller
James Fox
Missi Pyle
Mark Heap
Eileen Essell
Philip Wiegratz
Shelley Conn
Tony Kirwood
Geoffrey Holder
Harry C Taylor
Danny Elfman
Christopher Lee
Roger Frost
Jordan Fry
Annasophia Robb
Annette Badland
Wiener Philharmoniker
Noah Taylor
Oscar James
Liz Smith
Nayef Rashed
Philip Philmar
Nitin Ganatra
David Morris
Garrick Hagon
Kevin Eldon
Deep Roy
Franziska Troegner
Adam Godley
Todd Boyce
Julia Winter
Chris Cresswell
Menis Yousry
Colette Appleby
Stephen Hope-wynne
Francesca Hunt
Debora Weston
Crew
Alexander Abadzis
Bill Abbott
Vincent Abbott
Steve Adamson
Rene Adefarasin
Betty Ainslie
Nicolas Aithadi
Brian Aldridge
Michael Alexander
Paul Alexiou
David Allday
Carolyn Allen
Harriette Allen
Rob Allen
Laya Armian
Joe Arnold
Rosie Ashforth
Kenny Atherfold
Nicholas Atkinson
Jonathan Attenborough
François Audovy
John August
John August
Philip Babbage
Ken Bacon
Natasha Bailey
Dimitri Bakalov
Carla Baker
Carla Baker
Christopher Baker
Richard W. Baker
Peter Baldwin
Vicky Ball
Ravi Bansal
Craig Bardsley
Giacomo Bargellesi
Celia Barnett
Claire Louise Barnett
Judy Barr
Angela Barson
Steve Bartek
Nick Bartlett
Keziah Barton-white
Vanessa Bastyan
Lolly Batty
Sebastien Beaulieu
Lyse Beck
Susanne Becker
Graham Bell
Otis A Bell
Jonny Benson
Bruce Berman
Brenda Berrisford
Mark Beverton
Hitesh Bharadia
Alice Biddle
Paul Birkett
Karen Birtchnell
Doug Bishop
Tom Blake
Gary Blowfield
Brendan Body
Steve Boeddeker
Roger Bolton
Joseph C Bond
William Booker
Andrea Borland
John Botton
Christian Bourne
Matthew Bovington
Alexandra Bowers
Jennifer Bowes
Christopher Bradshaw
Christopher Bradshaw
Flora Brancatella
Jessica Braun
Neil Bristow
Andre Brizzard
Ben Broadbridge
Sarah Brook
Steve Brookesmith
Abi Brotherton
Max Brown
Sebastian Brown
Katie Buckley
Dean Budd
Andy Bull
Andy Bunce
Inez Bunclark
Simon Bunker
Colin Burgess
Danny Burke
Graham Burke
Dan Burnett
Julie Burnham
Cathy Burzack
William Bush
Greg Butler
Julian Butterfield
Luke Cairns
Julian Caldow
Dirk Callaerts
Neal Callow
Neal Callow
Mark Campion
Sabrina Canale
Nick Cannon
Martin Cantwell
Jordi Cardus
Anthony Caron-delion
Lucy Carracado
Thomas Carrick
Ann Cartwright
Federico Cascinelli
Chas Cash
Joe Cassar
Tim Catchpole
Ulrika Celsing
Frederic Cervini
Martin Chamney
Andrew Chapman
Marty Cherrix
Chloe Chesterton
Charlotte Child
Helen Christie
David Churchyard
Nikki Clapp
Pete Clark
Chris Clarke
Vincent Clarke
Isabel Cody
Gary Cohen
Karen Cohen
Viola Colditz
Hayley Collins
Ryan Conder
Grant Connor
Sean Connor
John Conroy
Sam Conway
Martin Cook
Steven Cook
Andrew D Cooke
Laurent Cordier
Maria Cork
Vincent Cosson
Steve Costello
Alfonso Cottier
Siobhan Coughlin
Alexandra Coxon
Brenda Coxon
David Cronnelly
Tyson Cross
Allan B Croucher
Steve Cullingford
Tony Currie
Mike Cussack
Matthew D'angibau
Liccy Dahl
Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
Casey Dame
David Darby
Julie Dartnell
Haslina Dasley
Nick Daubeny
Mark Daubney
John Davey
Esther Davis
Luan Davis
Neil Davis
Nick Davis
Nick Davis
Tony Dawe
Keith Dawson
Michael Dawson
Robert Dawson
Daniela De Vecchi
Gemma De Vecchi
Gardner Deaguiar
Russell Delaney
Philippe Delestre
Merche Delgado
Christi Dembrowski
Stephen Deuters
Ciaran Devine
Peter Devlin
Carlos Alberto Deyarza
Candace Di Talamo
Stuart Digby
Paul Dimmer
Deborah Maxwell Dion
Ben Dixon
Yann Doray
Gary Dormer
Jim Dowdall
Kerry Downing
Peter Doyle
Anthony Driver
Stefan Drury
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Costume Design
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States February 2007
Released in United States on Video November 8, 2005
Released in United States Summer July 15, 2005
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Eat, Drink, See Movies) February 8-18, 2007.
Actors formerly mentioned in the running to portray Willy Wonka included Michael Keaton, Nicolas Cage and Christopher Walken.
Gary Ross and Rob Minkoff were both previously attached to direct.
Warner Bros. began developing the remake in 1991, and acquired the rights in 1998 from the Dahl family.
All of the Oompa-Loompas will be played by one man, Deep Roy, who costarred in Burton's "Big Fish." Roy's performance will be reproduced through various movie tricks to create a mass of similar-looking factory workers.
Released in United States February 2007 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Eat, Drink, See Movies) February 8-18, 2007.)
Released in United States Summer July 15, 2005
Released in United States on Video November 8, 2005
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