Isabelle, as it turns out, is also an orphan, though her circumstances are quite a bit more comfortable than Hugo’s. George threatens to turn Hugo over to his nemesis - the station inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen), who seems especially interested in arresting and delivering stray children to the orphanage - but relents, though he keeps the notebook, despite Hugo’s persistent pleading.Įventually, Hugo enlists the help of George’s bookish goddaughter Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz) in an effort to recover his property.
Hugo is brought there by his dissolute uncle (Ray Winstone),a drunkard who trains the boy to do the uncle’s job of minding the station’s various clocks and then apparently abandons him to survive by his wits and light, nimble fingers.įrom his various vantage points in the wall, Hugo is able to observe and know some of the denizens of the station he watches like some god of mischief, taking advantage of their routine distractions to filch what he requires - whether it’s croissants and milk or some tiny springs from a toy maker’s stand to continue a restoration problem - the repair of an automaton styled as a tiny man - he began with his father (Jude Law) in happier times.īut one day Hugo is literally seized by the toy maker, an older man named George (Ben Kingsley), who confiscates the contents of his pockets, including a notebook that contains drawings of the automaton. LITTLE ROCK The titular Hugo (Asa Butterfield, whose unbelievably blue eyes are apparently not enhanced by CGI) in Martin Scorsese’s first PG-rated movie in 18 years is the freshly orphaned son of a clockmaker who is brought to live in the walls of the Montparnasse train station sometime around 1931.
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