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Rise of the Guardians
When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.
2012 · Directed by Peter Ramsey · 97 min · Action · Adventure · Animation · Family · Fantasy · Screenplay in the scene database · 15 frames
Tagline
You better believe.
Plot
Jack Frost emerges from a frozen pond with amnesia and finds himself invisible to the mortal realm. While he knows the Man in the Moon played a role in his transformation, the Man does not tell him why he has been changed. Three centuries later, Nicholas St. North learns of the return of Pitch Black, who threatens to plague children with nightmares. North rallies his fellow Guardians, E. Aster Bunnymund, Sanderson Mansnoozie, and Toothiana, and they discover that Jack has been chosen to join their ranks. Jack is kidnapped by Bunny and transported to the North Pole, where he learns from North that every Guardian has a "center", something they foster in children. Jack knows nothing of his center and resists the call to become a Guardian.
Meanwhile, North receives a message from Toothiana that her palace is under attack. The Guardians and Jack Frost manage to chase away Pitch, but not before Pitch kidnaps Tooth's subordinate fairies and steals all of the teeth, weakening children's belief in Tooth. Jack learns that every baby tooth holds the childhood memories of its owner, and may help him find out more about his past, motivating him to help Toothiana. To counter Pitch's plan, the other Guardians and Jack embark on a mission to collect teeth from children themselves. In their quest, they visit Jamie Bennett, a young boy who, still clinging to his belief, sees all of them except for Jack. On their way back to the North Pole, Pitch's Nightmares attack the Guardians and Sandy is killed.
With Easter approaching, the Guardians travel to Bunny's Warren and assist in the egg-coloring preparations. A mysterious voice lures Jack into Pitch's lair, where he finds his teeth. Pitch distracts Jack long enough for the Nightmares to destroy all the Easter eggs, causing children to stop believing in Bunny. Ashamed, Jack flees to Antarctica, where Pitch breaks his magic staff and throws him into a chasm. Unlocking the memories within his teeth, Jack learns that he was once a mortal boy who died saving his sister from the frozen pond that he awakened from at the film's start, which caused the Man in the Moon to choose him as a Guardian. Inspired, he repairs his staff and rescues the kidnapped fairies.
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Crew
- Screenplay: David Lindsay-Abaire
- Edited by: Joyce Arrastia
- Music: Alexandre Desplat
- Production design: Patrick Marc Hanenberger
- Produced by: Nancy Bernstein, Christina Steinberg
Cast
- Chris Pine as Jack Frost (voice)
- Alec Baldwin as North (voice)
- Jude Law as Pitch (voice)
- Isla Fisher as Tooth (voice)
- Hugh Jackman as Bunny (voice)
- Dakota Goyo as Jamie Bennett (voice)
- Isabella Blake-Thomas as British Girl (voice)
- Jacob Bertrand as Monty (voice)
- Khamani Griffin as Caleb (voice)
- Kamil McFadden as Claude (voice)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: French, English
- Studios: DreamWorks Animation
- Budget: $145,000,000
- Box office: $306,941,670
- Themes: new york city, friendship, amnesia, santa claus, cartoon, villain, easter bunny, boogeyman, jack frost, aftercreditsstinger
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