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Les Misérables (2012)

"Fight. Dream. Hope. Love."

Directed by Tom Hooper
Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
Screenplay by William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer
Based on "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg
Cinematography: Danny Cohen
Edited by Melanie Ann Oliver, Chris Dickens
Production company: Relativity Media, Working Title Films, Cameron Mackintosh Ltd.
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date: 21 December 2012 (Japan)
Running time: 158 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: $61.000.000
Box office: $441.800.000

"Les Misérables" is a romantic musical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and based on the musical of the same name by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg which is in turn based on the 1862 French novel by Victor Hugo. It tells the story of Jean Valjean, an ex-convict, who decides to turn his life around. As time goes by he becomes mayor of a town in France and owner of a factory in that town. One of Valjean's factory workers, Fantine, blames him for her being cast into a life of prostitution. He helps her but she dies. Jean Valjean feels responsible and agrees to take care of her illegitimate daughter, Cosette. Later, when Cosette is grown, they are swept up in the political turmoil in Paris, which culminates in the Paris Uprising of 1832.