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Memories are made to be remembered

Hugo (2011) A family themed movie set in the 1920s Paris which seem to be teaming with orphans (probably because their parents might have been killed in the Great War), so much so that a goofy policeman (Sacha Baron Cohen, Yes! Borat) with leg braces and an expression full Rottweiler make it their full time duty to hunt them down, often with comical sequel! Hugo, an orphan, stays alone in a clock tower in a Paris railway station without bothering anybody but maintaining the clock and occasionally pilfering to satisfy his hunger. His father, a curator in a museum had earlier died suddenly and Hugo was cared for by his drunkard uncle in the tower before he also dies. Papa George (Ben Kingsley), a toy shop owner, accuses Hugo of stealing his things but hires him to help around when Hugo managed to impress him with his skills of repairing mechanical toys. George had earlier confiscated a mysterious note book that was found on Hugo. The book contained notes about a mechanical...