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The Golden Compass (2007)
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Ratings: 6.2/10 from 81,204 users
Metascore:
51/100
Reviews: 641 user | 243 critic | 33 from Metacritic.com In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization. Director:Chris Weitz |
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| Freddie Highmore | ... |
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| Ian McKellen | ... |
Iorek Byrnison
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| Eva Green | ... | ||
| Jim Carter | ... | ||
| Tom Courtenay | ... | ||
| Ian McShane | ... |
Ragnar Sturlusson
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| Sam Elliott | ... | ||
| Christopher Lee | ... | ||
| Kristin Scott Thomas | ... |
Stelmaria
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Edward de Souza | ... | |
| Kathy Bates | ... |
Hester
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It was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford's motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra's greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust- discovered in the vast Arctic expanse of the North -was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it. Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from clans, 'gyptians, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle... Written by Krista
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"It is the Alethiometer. It tells the truth. As for how to read it, you'll have to learn by yourself." See more »Parents Guide:
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La brújula dorada See more »Box Office
Budget:
$180,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$25,783,232 (USA) (9 December 2007) (3528 Screens)Gross:
$70,083,519 (USA) (2 March 2008)Company Credits
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Serafina Pekkala: There are many universes and many Earths parallel to each other. Worlds like yours, where people's souls live inside their bodies, and worlds like mine, where they walk beside us, as animal spirits we call daemons.
Stelmaria: Are we going to see the child?
Lord Asriel: I should think so.
Serafina Pekkala: So many worlds. But connecting them all is Dust. Dust was here before the witches of the air, the Gyptians of the water, and the bears of the ice. In my world, scholars invented an alethiometer - a golden compass - and it showed them all that was hidden. But the ruling power, fearing any truth but their own, destroyed these devices and forbade the very mention of Dust. One compass remains, however, and only one who can read it.
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Filming took 100 days. Dakota Blue Richards was in every scene of the film aside from two which required her to shoot for 98 out of the 100 days. See more »Goofs
Continuity: When Lord Asriel is walking through the snow, before he gets captured, he reaches with his right hand to pull down his goggles at 40:58. In a closer shot also at 40:58, it shows him pulling them off with his left hand. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Serafina Pekkala: There are many universes and many Earths parallel to each other. Worlds like yours, where people's souls live inside their bodies, and worlds like mine, where they walk beside us, as animal spirits we call daemons.
Stelmaria: Are we going to see the child?
Lord Asriel: I should think so.
Serafina Pekkala: So many worlds. But connecting them all is Dust. Dust was here before the witches of the air, the Gyptians of the water, and the bears of the ice. In my world, scholars invented an alethiometer - a golden compass - and it showed them all that was hidden. But the ruling power, fearing any truth but their own, destroyed these devices and forbade the very mention of Dust. One compass remains, however, and only one who can read it.
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Crazy Credits
The FBI anti-piracy warning, typically on US-distributed DVD's, is displayed with the Magisterium's logo above the warning and the Magisterium building behind the warning as a water mark -- it plays after the feature ends. See more »
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