The Invention of Hugo Cabret #[nn]

Synopsis

Orphaned Hugo lives in hiding in a 1930s Paris train station, secretly doing his late uncle's job by tending the station clocks. When he tries to steal from a toymaker's stall the toymaker forces him to work off his pilferings, and Hugo readily repairs broken toys. The toymaker's goddaughter befriends him, and he slowly becomes part of the family. Hugo finishes his late father's work of restoring an automaton, hoping it will write a final message from his father. Instead, it sketches a scene from a movie by the automaton's original maker, Georges Méliès.