Les Misérables [Includes Digital Copy] [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray]

Overview

Academy-award winning director Tom Hooper's adaptation of the beloved musical Les Miserables makes no major changes to the original's plot. The story follows former prisoner Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), who, after being released from the watchful eye of police officer Javert (Russell Crowe), is unable to find work because of his status as an ex-convict. He eventually steals from a local church, but when apprehended, the priest claims that Valjean was given the valuables. This triggers a change in Valjean, and he constructs a new identity for himself as a pillar of society and a local businessman. Years later, he adopts a young girl named Cosette, whose mother Fantine (Anne Hathaway), a former employee of his, became a prostitute and died a horrible death in the gutters after being fired. As the years progress and the French Revolution begins to foment, a grown Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) falls for a passionate revolutionary named Marius (Eddie Redmayne), while Javert begins to close in again on Valjean's secret past.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/18/2023
UPC:	0191329065853
Original Release:	2012
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Universal Studios
Language:	English
Format:	Blu-ray

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Helena Bonham Carter	Madame Thenardier
Eddie Redmayne	Marius
Samantha Barks	Éponine
Daniel Huttlestone	Gavroche
Calvin Cornwall	Convict 1,Actor
Josef Altin	Convict 2
David Hawley	Convict 3
Adam Jones	Convict 4
John Barr	Convict 5
Andy Beckwith	Innkeeper
Stephen Bent	Jailer
Colm Wilkinson	Bishop
Georgie Glen	Madame Baptistine
Heather Chasen	Madame Magliore
Paul Thornley	Constable 1
Paul Howell	Constable 2
Stephen Tate	Fauchelevant
Michael Jibson	Foreman
Kate Fleetwood	Factory Woman 1
Hannah Waddington	Factory Woman 2
Clare Foster	Factory Woman 3
Kirsty Hoiles	Factory Woman 4
Jenna Boyd	Factory Woman 5
Alice Fearn	Factory Woman 6
Alison Tennant	Factory Woman 7
Marilyn Cutts	Factory Woman 8
Cathy Breeze	Factory Woman 9
John Albasiny	Factory Onlooker
Bertie Carvel	Bamatabois
Tim Downie	Brevet
Andrew Havill	Cochepaille
Dick Ward	Bamatabois' Valet
Nicola Sloane	Hair Crone
Daniel Evans	Pimp
David Stoller	Sailor 1
Ross McCormack	Sailor 2
Jaygann Ayeh	Sailor 3
Frances Ruffelle	Whore 1
Lynne Wilmot	Whore 2
Charlotte Spencer	Whore 3
Julia Worsley	Head Whore
Keith Dunphy	Client
Ashley Artus	Pawn Broker
John Surman	Organ-Grinder
David Cann	Magistrate
James Simmons	Champmathieu
Polly Kemp	Nursing Sister
Ian Pirie	Babet
Adam Pearce	Brujon
Mark Pickering	Montparnasse
Isabelle Allen	Young Cosette
Natalya Wallace	Young Éponine
Phil Snowden	Customer 1
Hadrian Delacey	Customer 2
Lottie Steer	Baby
Sam Parks	Tall Customer
Mark Donovan	Portly Customer
Lewis Kirk	Handsome Soldier 1
Leighton Rafferty	Handsome Soldier 2
Peter Mair	Father Christmas 1
Jack Chissick	Father Christmas 2
Dianne Pilkington	Inn Whore 1
Robyn North	Inn Whore 2
Norma Atallah	Mother Whore
Patrick Godfrey	Gillenormand
Mark Roper	Citizen
Paul Leonard	Citizen
Miles Roughley	Gavroche's Urchin
Cameron Strefford	Gavrone's Urchin
Alfie Davis	Gavroche's Urchin
Joseph West	Gavroche's Urchin
Joel Phillimore	Beggar 1
Jacqueline Dankworth	Beggar 2
Amelia Jefford	Beggar 3
Richard Cordery	Duc de Raguse
Killian Donnelly	Combeferre
Fra Fee	Courtfeyrac
Gabriel Vick	Feuilly
George Blagden	Grantaire
Hugh Skinner	Joly
Stuart Neal	Lesgles
Alistair Brammer	Prouvaire
Katy Secombe	Madame Hucheloup
Hadley Fraser	Army Officer
Linzi Hateley	Turning Woman 1
Gemma Wardle	Turning Woman 2
Gina Beck	Turning Woman 3
Katie Hall	Turning Woman 4
Michael Sarne	Father Mabeuf
John Warnaby	Majordomo
Jeff Duncan	Turning Woman 7
Lisa Hull	Turning Woman 5
Andrew Deck	Turning Woman 6
Kerry Ingram	Turning Woman 8
Ellie Beaven	Mother
Hannah Waddingham	Factory Woman 2
Chris Barnes	Beggar 4
Sacha Baron Cohen	Actor
Aaron Tveit	Actor
Claude-Michel Schönberg	Composer
Claude-Michel Schoenberg	Composer

Technical Credits

Thomas Schönberg

William Nicholson

Alain Boublil

Herbert Kretzmer

Jean-Marc Natel

Claude-Michel Schoenberg

Claude-Michel Schonberg

Tom Hooper	Director
Russell Crowe	Director
Helena Bonham Carter	Director
Anne Hathaway	Director
Sacha Baron Cohen	Director
Amanda Seyfried	Director
Eddie Redmayne	Director
Cameron Mackintosh	Producer
Bernard Bellew	Producer
Raphaël Benoliel	Producer
Nicholas Allott	Producer,Executive Producer
Francesca Budd	Producer
Angela Morrison	Producer,Executive Producer
F. Richard Pappas	Producer,Executive Producer
Thomas Schönberg	Producer,Screenwriter
William Nicholson	Screenwriter
Alain Boublil	Screenwriter
Herbert Kretzmer	Screenwriter
Jean-Marc Natel	Screenwriter
Paul Conway	Sound Effects
Duncan Craig	Sound Effects
Claude-Michel Schoenberg	Screenwriter
Claude-Michel Schonberg	Screenwriter
Debra Hayward	Producer

Editorial Reviews

With the exception of The Producers and The Book of Mormon, there probably hasn't been a modern, non-Andrew Lloyd Webber-related stage musical as beloved as Les Misérables. The adaptation of Victor Hugo's sprawling novel of redemption and revolution is the third-longest-running musical in Broadway history, and at the time this Tom Hooper-directed film version hit screens, the London production was still going strong after nearly 30 years in the West End. The story follows former prisoner Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), who, after being released from the watchful eye of police officer Javert (Russell Crowe), is unable to find work because of his status as an ex-convict. He eventually steals from a local church, but when apprehended, the priest claims that Valjean was given the valuables. This triggers a change in Valjean, and he constructs a new identity for himself as a pillar of society and a local businessman. Years later, he adopts a young girl named Cosette, whose mother Fantine (Anne Hathaway), a former employee of his, became a prostitute and died a horrible death in the gutters after being fired. As the years progress and the French Revolution begins to foment, a grown Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) falls for a passionate revolutionary named Marius (Eddie Redmayne), while Javert begins to close in again on Valjean's secret past. For this movie version of the musical, Hooper made the creative decision to, whenever possible, have the performers sing their parts live (rather than lip-synch to prerecorded tracks) as they were filmed. From a practical standpoint, that means that there are tons of close-ups in this picture. They are so prevalent that Hooper's film tells this inherently grand and epic tale with an unusual intimacy. Such an approach makes the performances emotional in a way few movie musicals have ever been. Hathaway gets the show's big number, "I Dreamed a Dream,"" and because she's performing the song live, it works as a monologue as much as it does as a song. She's acting the song as well as singing it, and it's a powerful sequence; her commitment to the material is forceful. It's the kind of scene that wins actors awards, and it's also the moment that pays the most dividends for Hooper's unusual creative choice. However, such an in-your-face visual scheme will also repel viewers already predisposed to having little tolerance for the source material. It's a novel approach, but it's designed to accentuate the aspect of musicals many people dislike the most -- namely, the singing. The editing of the film is simplistic, which benefits the performances, but it will bore those who have checked out of the songs. While Hathaway deserves the most praise out of anyone in the cast, nobody is an embarrassment. Hugh Jackman is excellent in his early numbers; Samantha Barks is heartbreaking as Éponine, the other woman in love with Marius; and the duo of Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter couldn't be more perfectly cast as an innkeeper and his wife, the only comic relief in this otherwise determinedly serious story. To be sure, this Les Misérables will not be to everyone's taste, but it's hard to deny the audacity of Hooper's emotionally intense approach, and impossible to forget Anne Hathaway delivering arguably the definitive version of a song that can easily be described as a modern musical-theater classic.