Les misérables

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The Resource Les misérables

Statement of responsibility: Universal Pictures ; producers, Tim Bevan ... [and others] ; writers, Willilam Nicholson ... [and others] ; director, Tom Hooper

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Summary: Jean Valjean is paroled after serving 19 years in prison for stealing some bread. He tries to steal silverware, but is set straight by a bishop. Nine years later, Valjean is now a wealthy industrialist and mayor. He eventually befriends Fantine, a single mother turned prostitute and risks all when he helps her after she's nearly arrested by police officer Javert. Javert was a guard at the prison Valjean was in and is suspicious that the mayor and Valjean are the same person

Credits note: Stephen Brooker, musical director ; Claude-Michel Schönberg, Anne Dudley, musical producers ; produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, and Cameron MacKintosh ; music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer ; screenplay by William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Herbert Kretzmer, directed by Tom Hopper

Intended audience: MPAA Rating: PG-13, for suggestive and sexual material, violence, and thematic elements

Language note: In English with optional English, Spanish, or French subtitles

PerformerNote: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen

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