I'm convinced. Though I don't know what that poor boy will do without his raft. - No. - I'm tired of doing stupid tricks for you. Tell me where my father is. I have absolutely no idea. Quite frankly, I don't care, because you read just as well as he does.

Description: A teenage girl discovers her father has an amazing talent to bring characters out of their books and must try to stop a freed villain from destroying them all, with the help of her father, her aunt, and a storybook's hero.

Cast:
Mo: Brendan Fraser
Resa: Sienna Guillory
Meggie: Eliza Bennett
Bookshop Proprietor: Richard Strange
Dustfinger: Paul Bettany
Elinor: Helen Mirren
Cockerell: Matt King
Flatnose: Steve Speirs
Basta: Jamie Foreman
Fulvio: Stephen Graham
Young Meggie: Mirabel O'Keefe
Capricorn: Andy Serkis
Darius: John Thomson
Mortola: Lesley Sharp
Rapunzel: Tereza Srbova
Farid: Rafi Gavron
Roxanne: Jennifer Connelly
Fenoglio: Jim Broadbent
Narrator: Roger Allam
Masquerade Ball Dancer: Adrian Gas
Minotaur: Paul Kasey
The Shadow: Marnix Van Den Broeke
Cop's Wife: Alex Argenti
Medieval Lord: Stephen Armourae
Water Nymph: Jessie Cave
Black Jacket: Chuen Tsou
Kazeem: Zuma Davies
Recruit: Michael Lindall
Guard: Maurice D. Hunt

Written by: David Lindsay-Abaire, Cornelia Funke

Director: Iain Softley

Production: New Line Cinema, Internationale Filmproduktion Blackbird Erste

Release date: 23 Jan 2009

Box Office: $17,303,424