In the sleepy English countryside of decades past, there is a town that has stood on a jut of granite for six hundred years. And immediately to the east stands a high stone wall, for which the village is named. Here in the town of Wall, Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester. One crisp October night, as they watch, a star falls from the sky, and Victoria promises to marry Tristran if he’ll retrieve that star and bring it back for her. It is this promise that sends Tristran through the only gap in the wall, across the meadow, and into the most unforgettable adventure of his life.
“Stardust” is set principally in a world known as Stormhold, an alternate reality of magic and marvels that lies across a stone wall from a small English village. A son of that village, Dunstan Thorne, once traveled illegally across the wall and sired a son, Tristran, who was left on his doorstep and raised in ignorance of the true story of his birth. Now Tristran is 18 and in love with a haughty local beauty. One night, courting her in a field, he vows to fetch for her the star that has fallen beyond the wall. And by so doing he braves harms he can’t imagine.
The star means different things to different people. It is a token sent into the world by the dying king of Stormhold as a challenge to the sons who wish to inherit his crown. It is a potential source of life to a trio of witches who hope to gain immortality by devouring it. And it is, most anomalously, in earthly form, a beautiful, saucy girl at whose side Tristran suddenly appears and whom he is intent on dragging back to his village. And so a chase begins: Tristran drags the unwilling star back home, the king’s sons race to fetch the jewel around the star’s neck, and the cruelest of the witches wants to capture the star and rip out the star’s heart for her vain purposes.
Star(s) to watch : Robert De Niro (”The Score”, “Heat”) as Captain Shakespeare, Sienna Miller as Victoria, & Ben Barnes as Young Dunstan Thorne.
Genre : Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi.
Release date : August 10, 2007
Rating : 8/10
Official website : http://www.stardustmovie.com/
Poster : http://movies-update.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/stardust-202𝗬.jpg
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