The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
Acting
Paul Bettany tormented as Dustfinger, desperate to return home.
Production
Capricorn's Italian village: storybook evil in sun-bleached stone.
Practical Effects
The Shadow creature: unholy origami nightmare, actually terrifying.
Director
Iain Softley
Brendan Fraser
Mo 'Silvertongue' Folchart
Sienna Guillory
Resa
Andy Serkis
Capricorn
Eliza Bennett
Meggie Folchart
Paul Bettany
Dustfinger
Jim Broadbent
Fenoglio
Helen Mirren
Elinor Loredan
Matt King
Cockerell
Rafi Gavron
Farid
Marnix Van Den Broeke
The Shadow
Richard Strange
Bookshop Proprietor
Steve Speirs
Flatnose
Jamie Foreman
Basta
Stephen Graham
Fulvio
Mirabel O'Keefe
Young Meggie
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cornelia Funke, the author, was so involved she has a cameo as a woman in the market scene—try spotting her.
The film bombed so hard it killed planned adaptations of Funke's two sequel novels, 'Inkspell' and 'Inkdeath'—we will never see Mo confront the Adderhead on screen.
US
