Arthur and the Invisibles
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| Directed by | Luc Besson |
| Produced by | Luc Besson Emmanuel Prévost |
| Written by | Luc Besson Céline Garcia |
| Story by | Luc Besson |
| Based on |
Arthur and the Minimoys and Arthur and the Forbidden City by Luc Besson |
| Starring |
Freddie Highmore Madonna Jimmy Fallon Mia Farrow David Bowie Ron Crawford Robert De Niro Jason Bateman Snoop Dogg Anthony Anderson |
| Music by | Éric Serra |
| Cinematography | Thierry Arbogast |
| Edited by |
Karim Benhammouda Yann Hervé Vincent Tabaillon |
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| Distributed by |
The Weinstein Company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time
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94 minutes (2007 version) 104 minutes (2006 version) |
| Country | France |
| Language | English |
| Budget |
€60 million ($85 million) |
| Box office | $107,944,236 |
Arthur and the Invisibles (French: Arthur et les Minimoys) is a 2006 English-language French adventure comedy fantasy animated/live-action feature film adaptation of the 2002 children's book Arthur and the Minimoys, and the 2003 sequel Arthur and the Forbidden City, written by filmmaker Luc Besson, who also directed the film. It premiered in limited release in France on November 29, 2006, and received wide releases in a number of countries in the following weeks. In the United States, it opened on December 29, 2006, for one week in Los Angeles, California, with a wider release on January 12, 2007 and it was released in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2007. With a budget of €60 million, Arthur and the Invisibles was briefly the most expensive French film production until surpassed by Astérix at the Olympic Games. The film received negative reviews from critics, and performed badly in the United States. It was nevertheless successful enough in France and in the rest of the world to generate two sequels, Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard and Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds. The film also received the Imagina Award in the category Prix du Long-Métrage. The movie's soundtrack album was released on January 9, 2007.
In the year 1960, protagonist Arthur lives with his grandmother Daisy in a quiet farm house on a dirt road, in a small rural community in Northeastern Connecticut (based on Sterling). His grandfather Archibald has recently gone missing and he sees little of his parents (who are away looking for work). Daisy entertains Arthur with stories of his grandfather's adventures in Africa, featuring the tall Bogo Matassalai and the minuscule Minimoys, of whom the latter now live in Archibald's garden, protecting a collection of rubies. Arthur becomes enamoured of a picture of Selenia, the princess of the Minimoys. When Daisy receives a two-day deadline to pay a large sum of money to a building developer named Ernest Davido, who plans to evict the two, Arthur looks for the rubies to pay off the debt, and discovers various clues left by his grandfather. He is met in the garden by the Bogo Matassala, who reduce Arthur to Minimoy size. From the Minimoys, Arthur learns that they are in danger from Maltazard, a Minimoy war hero who now rules the nearby 'Necropolis', after corruption by a weevil, by whom he has a son named Darkos.
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