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Overview

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4.7/10   6,279 votes
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Writers (WGA):
John Hodge (screenplay)
Susan Cooper (novel)
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Release Date:
5 October 2007 (USA) more
Tagline:
Even the smallest of light... shines in the darkness
Plot:
A boy's life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the dark. full summary | full synopsis
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Harry Potter meets the Fifth Element? more (145 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Dark Is Rising (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for fantasy action and some scary images.
Runtime:
99 min
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2.35 : 1 more
Certification:
USA:PG (certificate #43658) | UK:12A | Ireland:12A | Singapore:PG | Malaysia:U | Taiwan:PG-12 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Germany:12 | Argentina:13 | Peru:PT | Finland:K-11 | Brazil:Livre | South Korea:12 | New Zealand:PG | Australia:PG | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | France:U

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Alexander Ludwig also plays the role of twin brother Tom, but isn't credited for this role. more
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Continuity: When the Christmas tree is being delivered about fifteen minutes in, the tree outside the house is very thick and full and about ten feet tall, and appears so as they are trying to jam it through the front door. When bringing it down the stairs, though, the tree trunk is much thinner and is much shorter, inferring that the bottom half of the tree was lopped off to make the scene more manageable. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Paul Stanton: Hey man, let's get out of here.
Robin Stanton: School is out.
James Stanton: What's up, little brother? I gotta catch up with the twins.
Gwen Stanton: Hi Will.
Will Stanton: Come on, Gwen. Let's go.
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Features Tony Hawk's Project 8 (2006) (VG) more
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80 out of 111 people found the following comment useful.
Harry Potter meets the Fifth Element?, 7 October 2007
2/10
Author: garretsr from Irvine, CA

If you read the book, skip the movie. If you did not read the book, still skip the movie. I saw this with a group in which some of us had read the book and some of us had not. Everybody disliked it.

The story was confusing, disjointed, and eventually pointless. Even if you had read the book, it appeared that the screenwriter was taking scenes from Harry Potter, scenes from the Fifth Element, and a few scenes from Cooper's original novels then patching them together. This led to an incoherent story line.

The biggest question is what were they thinking when they disregarded the story contained in the book? In an episode of "all things considered" on NPR, screenwriter John Hodge asserted that he was trying to distance this movie from Harry Potter. If so, he failed miserably because the massive changes made this look more like a bad Harry Potter knock-off than a separate film. From the NPR interviews, it appears that Ms. Cooper had little or no input in the film. I suspect that the filmmakers were trying to make a Harry Potter-like film out of Susan Cooper's story so they could avoid copyright infringement. Unfortunately, they were trying to fit a square peg into the round hole and it did not work.

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