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Hugo, starring Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingley - Set in Paris in the early 1900s. Young Hugo (Asa Butterfield) lives alone with his watchmaker father (Jude Law), who shares with him a love of fixing mechanical things. After his father is killed in a fire, Hugo falls to the care of his alcoholic uncle, who is allowed to live at the train station in return for keeping the clocks running.
After his uncle disappears, Hugo continues to secretly maintain the station clocks. He keeps body and soul together by stealing food from the station shops. He also steals tools and parts from the shop run by Monsieur Melies (Ben Kingsley). When Monsieur Monsieur Melies catches Hugo, he takes from him a notebook left by Hugo's father.
Hugo's efforts to get the notebook back lead to the unraveling of the mystery of Monsieur Melies's past and an unexpected friendship with the man's ward (Chloe Grace Moretz).
In the first part of the story, the main character is Hugo; in the later parts, the main character is really Monsieur Melies This can succeed in novels, but is less satisfying in movies.