Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
Direction
Scorsese's first and only 3D film — every frame is a diorama.
Cinematography
Robert Richardson shoots Paris like a dream you half-remember.
Production
Gigantic functioning train station set built from scratch.
Director
Martin Scorsese
Asa Butterfield
Hugo Cabret
Ben Kingsley
Georges Méliès
Chloë Grace Moretz
Isabelle
Sacha Baron Cohen
Station Inspector
Ray Winstone
Uncle Claude
Emily Mortimer
Lisette
Christopher Lee
Monsieur Labisse
Helen McCrory
Mama Jeanne
Michael Stuhlbarg
René Tabard
Frances de la Tour
Madame Emilie
Richard Griffiths
Monsieur Frick
Jude Law
Hugo's Father
Kevin Eldon
Policeman
Gulliver McGrath
Young Tabard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The automaton really exists — it's in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Switzerland and inspired the novel.
Scorsese made this to fund The Wolf of Wall Street, but it's arguably more autobiographical — both he and Méliès were magicians who became filmmakers.
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