Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Acclaimed director Tim Burton brings his vividly imaginative style to the beloved Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, about eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka (Depp) and Charlie, a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka’s extraordinary factory. Long isolated from his own family, Wonka launches a worldwide contest to select an heir to his candy empire. Five lucky children, including Charlie, draw golden tickets from Wonka chocolate bars and win a guided tour of the legendary candy-making facility that no outsider has seen in 15 years. Dazzled by one amazing sight after another, Charlie is drawn into Wonka’s fantastic world in this astonishing and enduring story.


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  • Deluxe edition includes:
    • Theatrical trailer
    • Becoming Oompa-Loompa – How They Turned One Man into Hundreds of Oompa Loompas!
    • Attack of the Squirrels: A Look at the Trained Nut-Sorting Squirrels
    • Fantastic Mr. Dahl: A Look into the Life of Roald Dahl
    • Oompa-Loompa Dance: Learn to Dance Like an Oompa-Loompa
    • The Inventing Machine: See What Happens to an Oompa-Loompa When You Create Your Own Candy Concoctions
    • Search for the Golden Ticket: Can You Find the Golden Ticket? And much, much, more!

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James and the Giant Peach

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James’s happy life at the English seaside is rudely ended when his parents are killed by a rhinoceros and he goes to live with his two horrid aunts. Daringly saving the life of a spider he comes into possession of magic boiled crocodile tongues, after which an enormous peach starts to grow in the garden. Venturing inside he meets not only the spider but a number of new friends including a ladybug and a centipede who help him with his plan to try and get to New York.


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Matilda

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Matilda is a bright little girl who is very eager to learn. Eventually, her insensitive parents send her to a school run by Miss (The) Trunchbull. She is a cruel authoritarian that loathes children. Matilda befriends her school teacher, Miss Honey. She soon realizes Matilda’s talents, but is later amazed to see the full extent of Matilda’s powers.


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* Note: I was able to watch part of this movie online but as it had no subtitles, I can’t be sure which Dahl story it’s actually based on. The plot description below is from Letterboxd, and it definitely sounds like “The Great Switcheroo.” If you can confirm one way or the other, please let me know!


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Two married couples are getting into big trouble while participating in a reality show on TV.


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The Witches

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This was the last movie that Jim Henson personally worked on before his death. Adapted from Dahl’s children’s book of the same name, the story is about a young boy, recently orphaned, who is taken to England by his retired witchophile grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid the world of all children. Can Luke stop their evil plan before any more children disappear?


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Revolting Rhymes

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Six of the best loved nursery rhymes retold, with some extremely amusing twists, by the master of the comic and the bizarre, Roald Dahl. What ugly fate befell Jack and the Beanstalk’s Mother? Who actually did Cinderella marry? What number did the little Pig ring when he was in deep trouble with the wolf?

The stories are brilliantly told by Prunella Scales and Timothy West. This exciting animatic moving picture book will entertain children of all ages.


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Dirty Beasts

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The master of wicked humor has created a ghastly menagerie of dirty beasts – all doing the most extraordinary and unmentionable things, in irreverent and absurdly comic verse!


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Danny the Champion of the World

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    • Roald Dahl’s Classic Tales

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Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won’t take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father, Danny and his father decide to get even with Hazell and his pheasant-shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.


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  • “Ironses the latest acting ‘dynasty'” from the November 17, 1988 issue of The Canberra Times – Canberra, Australia (read online)

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