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Uniform Title Astro Boy (Motion picture : 2009)
Title Astro Boy / Summit Entertainment and Imagi Studios present in association with Endgame Entertainment, an Imagi Studios film ; produced by Maryann Garger ; screenplay by Timothy Harris, David Bowers ; directed by David Bowers.

Publication Info. Universal City, Calif. : Summit Entertainment, 2010.
2009.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  J DVD AST    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  PG DVD AST c.2  Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  YA DVD ASTRO BOY    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  CH DVD ASTRO    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Children's Department  J DVD ASTRO    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Children's Department  J DVD AST    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Children's Department  J DVD ASTRO    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Children's Audio-Visual Materials  JDVD ASTRO BOY    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department  J DVD ASTR    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, dual layer.
Cast Voices: Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy, Matt Lucas, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland, Nicolas Cage.
Credits Director of photography, Pepe Valencia ; editor, Robert Anich Cole ; music, John Ottman.
Note Based on the original comic strip series by Osamu Tezuka.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2009.
Audience MPAA rating: PG; for some action and peril, and brief mild language.
Summary Set in futuristic Metro City. When a brilliant scientist's young son dies, he secretly creates a powerful robot boy he names Astro Boy. Unable to fulfill the grieving man's expectations, Astro Boy embarks on a journey in search of acceptance. Along his way he experiences betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who had rejected him.
Note Special features: Two animated sequences: Astro vs. the Junkyard Pirates, The RRF In: The New Recruit ; "Designing a hero" featurette; "Building Metro City" featurette; "Inside the recording booth" featurette; Astro-boy image gallery; "Getting the Astro Boy look" featurette.
Language English or dubbed Spanish dialogue with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Robots -- Drama.
Scientists -- Drama.
Grief in men -- Drama.
Betrayal -- Drama.
Gladiators -- Drama.
Reconciliation -- Drama.
Genre/Form Fantasy films.
Science fiction films.
Animated films.
Feature films.
Added Author Bowers, David.
Garger, Maryann.
Harris, Timothy, 1946-
Highmore, Freddie, 1992-
Bell, Kristen, 1980-
Lane, Nathan, 1956-
Levy, Eugene, 1946-
Lucas, Matt, 1974-
Nighy, Bill, 1949-
Sutherland, Donald, 1935-
Cage, Nicolas, 1965-
Ottman, John.
Tezuka, Osamu, 1928-1989. Tetsuwan Atomu. English.
Summit Entertainment.
Standard No. 025192058417
Music No. 66113402 Summit Entertainment
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