Storyline
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
Directors
Cast
Andrew Havill, David Cann, Russell Crowe, Sacha Baron Cohen, Hugh Jackman, Michael Jibson, Amanda Seyfried, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Mark Roper, Freya Parks, Simon Fisher-Becker, Keith Dunphy, Tony Rohr, Eddie Redmayne, Georgie Glen, Nicola Sloane, Kate Fleetwood, Ian Pirie, Richard Dixon, Adrian Scarborough, Dominic Applewhite, Tim Downie, Dick Ward, John Albasiny, John Warnaby, Andy Beckwith, Richard Bremmer, James Greene, Marc Pickering, Sean Buckley, Aaron Tveit, Julian Bleach, Josef Altin, Ella Hunt, Mark Donovan, Charlotte Spencer, Amanda Henderson, Joyce Springer, Samantha Barks, Daniel Huttlestone, Cavin Cornwall, David Hawley, Adam Jones, John Barr, Colm Wilkinson, Stephen Bent, Heather Chasen, Paul Thornley, Paul Howell, Stephen Tate, Hannah Waddingham, Clare Foster, Kirsty Hoiles, Jenna Boyd, Alice Fearn, Alison Tennant, Marilyn Cutts, Cathy Breeze, Bertie Carvel, Daniel Evans, David Stoller, Ross McCormack, Jaygann Ayeh, Frances Ruffelle, Lynne Wilmot, Julia Worsley, Ashley Artus, John Surman, James Simmons, Polly Kemp, Adam Pearce, Isabelle Allen, Natalya Wallace, Phil Snowden, Hadrian Delacey, Lottie Steer, Sam Parks, Lewis Kirk, Leighton Rafferty, Peter Mair, Jack Chissick, Dianne Pilkington, Robyn North, Norma Atallah, Patrick Godfrey, Paul Leonard, Miles Roughley, Cameron Strefford, Alfie Davis, Joseph West, Joel Phillimore, Jacqueline Dankworth, Amelia Jefford, Chris Barnes, Richard Cordery, Killian Donnelly, Fra Fee, Gabriel Vick, George Blagden, Hugh Skinner, Stuart Neal, Alistair Brammer, Iwan Lewis, Katy Secombe, Hadley Fraser, Linzi Hateley, Gemma Wardle, Gina Beck, Katie Hall, Lisa Hull, Andrea Deck, Jessica Duncan, Kerry Ingram, Mike Sarne, Alexander Brooks, Eleanor Bruce, Emma Dukes, Stephen Matthews, Peter Saracen, Sebastian Sykes, Phil Zimmerman, Bessie Carter, Helen Cotterill, Tricia Deighton, Mandy Holliday, Charlotte Hope, Jackie Marks, Sara Pelosi, Mary Roscoe, Amelia Scaramucci, Caroline Sheen, Rachael Archer, Lorna Brown, Antonia Clarke, Mary Cormack, Sonya Cullingford, Holly Dale Spencer, Amy Griffiths, Fania Grigoriou, Alexia Khadime, Luisa Lazzaro, Gemma O'Duffy, Rosa O'Reilly, Amy Ellen Richardson, Olivia Rose-Aaron, Robyn Miranda Simpson, Rachel Stanley, Nancy Sullivan, Rebecca Sutherland, Tabitha Webb, Gerard Bentall, Tony Bignell, Michael Cahill, Richard Colson, Kerry Ellis, Sarah Flind, Kelly-Anne Gower, Nick Holder, Chris Howell, Alison Jiear, Terence Keely, Martin Marquez, Sally Mates, Jeff Nicholson, Adam Searles, Simon Shorten, Juliet Alderdice, Valerie Cutko, Spike Grimsey, Matt Harrop, Georgina Jackson, Perry Millward, Phil Philmar, Julie Stark, Matthew Corner, Andy Coxon, Jonathan Dudley, Rhidian Marc, Chris Milford, Jamie Muscato, Joseph Peters, David Roberts, Stevee Davies, Jonny Purchase, Matt Seadon Young, Jos Slovick, Samuel J. Weir, Sophie Huchinson, Claire Machin, Brenda Moore, Mischa Purnell, Annette Yeo, Josephine Darvill-Mills, Jennifer Essex, Vicky Evans, Edward Lewis French, Nigel Garton, Lynn Jezzard, Nicholas Keegan, Steve Kirkham, Vanessa Lee Hicks, Ian Parsons, Gemma Payne, Clinten Pearce, Claire Piquemal, Aaron Sillis, Ian Waller
Trailer
Reviews
80
Stirring and striking, Hooper's epic musical won't be wanting for awards and plaudits. Danny Cohen's cinematography is stunning and Hathaway's Oscar is guaranteed.
70
Boxoffice Magazine
For fans, this is exactly how the story of Jean Valjean's transformation from thief to saint should be delivered: smothered in bombast.
70
Variety
Yet for all its expected highs, the adaptation has been managed with more gusto than grace; at the end of the day, this impassioned epic too often topples beneath the weight of its own grandiosity.
60
The Guardian
By the end, you feel like a piñata: in pieces, the victim of prolonged assault by killer pipes.
60
Even at a generous running time that matches this season's other giant award candidates, Les Misérables seems like it's in a hurry, skittering from one number to the next without interlude. After Hathaway's early high point, it starts to feel numbing, an unending barrage of musical emoting carrying us through Valjean's adopting of Cosette, the latter's first encounter with Marius, the battle at the barricade and a last hour that can feel like it's a non-stop series of death arias.
