Hugh Jackman
Russell Crowe
Eddie Redmayne
Anne Hathaway
Helena Bonham Carter
Sacha Baron Cohen
Samantha Barks
Amanda Seyfried
Screenwriter
William Nicholson
Director
Tom Hooper
Running Time
158 minutes
A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel about a recently-released prisoner named Jean Valjean struggling to survive during the French revolution.
The live singing took some getting use to but I did and enjoyed it. It's strange the sound was identical whether they were singing in a chapel, in the street or beside the river. I've said before how film musicals would benefit from casting musical theatre actors and I still hold to that. I wept at the end although more for the mood created than for any of the characters except really Hathaway's.
