Arthur Christmas

Resource Information

The work Arthur Christmas represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Arthur Christmas

Statement of responsibility

Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation present producers, Peter Lord [and others] ; screenplay, Peter Baynham, Sarah Smith ; directors, Sara Smith and Barry Cook

Contributor

• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Baynham, Peter
• Broadbent, Jim
• Cook, Barry, 1958-
• Jensen, Ashley
• Laurie, Hugh, 1959-
• Linney, Laura
• Longoria, Eva, 1975-
• Lord, P., (Peter)
• Marquez, Raymond
• McAvoy, James, 1979-
• Nighy, Bill, 1949-
• Palin, Michael
• Smith, Sarah, 1971-
• Staunton, Imelda, 1956-
• Wootton, Marc

Subject

• Animated films
• Children's films
• Christmas -- Juvenile drama
• Christmas -- Juvenile films
• Christmas films
• Families -- Juvenile drama
• Families -- Juvenile films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• North Pole -- Juvenile films
• Santa Claus -- Juvenile films
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Animated films
• Children's films
• Christmas films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Juvenile drama
• Juvenile films
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child2s question: 1So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?2 The answer: Santa2s exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music, Harry Gregson-Williams

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

• MPAA rating: PG; for some mild rude humor
• CHV rating: G

Language note

• English subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing; English described video
• English (5.1 DTS-HD MA), French (5.1 DTS-HD MA) or Spanish (5.1 Dolby Digital) dialogue; Spanish, English or French subtitles

LC call number

PN1997.2

LC item number

.A78 2012

PerformerNote

Voices: James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, Ashley Jensen, Marc Wootton, Laura Linney, Eva Longoria, Raymond Marquez, Michael Palin

Runtime

97

Target audience

juvenile

Technique

animation