Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium is a 2007 film written and directed by Zach Helm. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Jason Bateman and Zach Mills. The screenplay is the first that Zach Helm wrote when hired as a contract writer at 20th Century Fox, but it remained unfilmed until Helm was able to buy the script back after Stranger than Fiction was made.
Eccentric, 243-year-old Mr. Edward Magorium (Dustin Hoffman) owns and manages a mag...
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Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium is a 2007 film written and directed by Zach Helm. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, Jason Bateman and Zach Mills. The screenplay is the first that Zach Helm wrote when hired as a contract writer at 20th Century Fox, but it remained unfilmed until Helm was able to buy the script back after Stranger than Fiction was made.
Eccentric, 243-year-old Mr. Edward Magorium (Dustin Hoffman) owns and manages a magical toy shop. The shop has many quirks, including animated toys, a ledger that can bring to the purchase counter any toy on command in alphabetical order known as the Big Book, and a doorknob that, when rotated, changes the interior of a magic room to four different options known as the door of rooms. Both the building and the toys change their appearance and behavior according to the shifting emotions of the shop itself. Besides Mr. Magorium, the shop's employees include his assistant Molly Mahoney (Natalie Portman), a pianist and aspiring...
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