159 mins |
Rated
PG (for some scary moments and mild language)
Directed by Chris Columbus
Starring Tom Felton, Warwick Davis, Fiona Shaw, Richard Griffiths, Ian Hart, Daniel Radcliffe, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris, Julie Walters, Alan Rickman, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Hurt
Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling's popular children's novels about Harry Potter, a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses unique magical powers of his own. He is summoned from his life as an unwanted child to become a student at Hogwarts, an English boarding school for wizards. There, he meets several friends who become his closest allies and help him discover the truth about his parents' mysterious deaths at the hands of a powerful adversary.
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Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling's popular children's novels about Harry Potter, a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses unique magical powers of his own. He is summoned from his life as an unwanted child to become a student at Hogwarts, an English boarding school for wizards. There, he meets several friends who become his closest allies and help him discover the truth about his parents' mysterious deaths at the hands of a powerful adversary.