Laura's Star

Laura's Star

German theatrical release poster
Directed by Piet De Rycker
Thilo Rothkirch
Produced by Thilo Rothkirch
Written by Michael Mädel
Piet De Rycker
Based on Lauras Stern 
by Klaus Baumgart
Music by Hans Zimmer
Henning Lohner
Nick Glennie-Smith
Cinematography Amanda Atkinson
Edited by Eric Shaw
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
 19 September 2004
Running time
 80 minutes
Country Germany
Language German
Box office $4,600,000[1]

Laura's Star (German: Lauras Stern) is a 2004 German animated film produced and directed by Thilo Rothkirch. It is based on the children's book Lauras Stern by Klaus Baumgart. It was released by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment.

Plot

Laura is a seven-year-old country girl, who just moved along with her family to a big city. On her first night in her new neighborhood, she sees a shooting star falling to earth, she finds it in a park and discovers it is a living being, (that's severed one of its points during its crash landing). Taking it back home (to reattach its point with a band-aid), she and her younger brother Tommy discover the little star has special powers and can do amazing things like making people fly and bringing inanimate objects to life. But over time both notice that the longer the star stays on earth, the weaker it becomes (with its colour fading while its powers fail), with their next door neighbor Max they find a way to send the little star back into outer space.

Cast

German version

English version

Music

The film featured the songs "Stay" and "Touch the Sky" by the German band Wonderwall and a score by Hans Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith.

Release

The film was one of the most popular animated films in 2004, and it has became the most successful animated film in all German film history.

Accolades

Sequels

In September 2009, Warner Bros. released a sequel film, Lauras Stern und der geheimnisvolle Drache Nian which translates to "Laura's Star and the Mysterious Dragon Nian", and in October 2011, another sequel, titled Lauras Stern und die Traummonster which translates to "Laura's Star and the dream monsters" .[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Lauras Stern". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved December 1, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Lauras Stern und die Traummonster". Kino.de. Retrieved November 20, 2011.

External links

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