Hugo (2011)

Synopsis of Hugo

Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Brian Selznick's award-winning novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret stars Asa Butterfield, as an orphan boy who lives in a Parisian train station. Sent to live with his drunken uncle after his father's death in a fire, Hugo learned how to wind the massive clocks that run throughout the station. When the uncle disappears one day, Hugo decides to maintain the clocks on his own, hoping nobody will catch on to him squatting in the station.

His natural aptitude for engineering leads him to steal gears, tools, and other items from a toy-shop owner who maintains a storefront in the station. Hugo needs these purloined pieces in order to rebuild a mechanical man that was left in the father's care at the museum -- the restoration was a project father and son did together.

When Georges (Ben Kingsley), the old man who runs the toy stand, catches on to the thievery, he threatens to turn Hugo over to the station's lone police officer (Sacha Baron Cohen, who makes every effort to send any parentless child in the station to the orphanage. But Hugo's run-in with Georges leads to a friendship with the elderly gentleman's goddaughter, Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz), who unknowingly possesses the last item Hugo needs to make the mechanical man work again.
~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

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Theatrical Feature Running Time:

126 mins

Director(s):

Martin Scorsese

Writer(s):

John Logan

Producer(s):

Martin Scorsese, Graham King, Tim Headington

Theatrical MPAA Rating:

PG(Smoking)

• 2011 - Boston Society of Film Critics - Best Director
• 2011 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Sound
• 2011 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Sound
• 2011 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Sound
• 2011 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Sound
• 2011 - British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Production Design
• 2011 - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Director
• 2011 - L.A. Film Critics Association - Best Production Design
• 2011 - L.A. Film Critics Association - Best Director (Runner-up)
• 2011 - National Board of Review - Best Director
• 2011 - National Board of Review - Best Picture
• 2011 - New York Film Critics Online - Top Ten Film of the Year

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