

Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver 2018
Directed by Dennis Gansel
- Adventure, Family, Fantasy
- 109 min
A young orphan boy Jim Button, his best friend Luke and a magical steam engine called Emma travel across the world in search of the truth about where Jim came from. Battling pirates and dragons, outsmarting make-believe giants, they must travel through the Forest of a Thousand Wonders, beyond the End of the World to find the hidden Dragon City.
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Classical in form, earnest, unpretentious and resolved.
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- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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Cast
- Henning BaumLukas
- Solomon GordonJim Knopf
- Annette FrierMrs. Waas
- Uwe OchsenknechtKing Alfons
- Christoph Maria HerbstMr. Ärmel
- Milan PeschelTur Tur
- Rick KavanianWilde 13 / Pirate
- Eden GoughPing Pong
- Leighanne EsperanzateLi Si
- Kao ChenminEmperor of Mandala
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- Dennis GanselDirector
- Sebastian NiemannWriter
- Dirk AhnerWriter
- Andrew BirkinWriter
- Michael EndeNovel
- Torsten BreuerDirector of Photography
- Ralf WengenmayrOriginal Music Composer
- Christian BeckerProducer
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