In the Méliès home, Hugo shows Georges's wife Jeanne ( Helen McCrory) the drawing made by the automaton, but she will not tell them anything and makes them hide in a room when Georges comes home. They discover that the drawing made by the automaton is signed with the name of Isabelle's godfather and take it to her home for an explanation. Hugo remembers it is the film his father always said was the first film he ever saw: Voyage to the Moon. When they use the key to activate the automaton, it produces a drawing of a film scene. At first, Hugo is not trusting of Isabelle and tries to leave her, but Isabelle turns out to have the key to the automaton. She in turn introduces Hugo to a bookstore whose owner initially mistrusts Hugo. They sneak into a theater to see a silent movie without buying a ticket. Hugo introduces Isabelle to the movies, which her godfather has never let her see. Hugo works in the toy shop, and in his time off manages to fix the automaton, but it is still missing one part - a heart-shaped key. Finally Méliès agrees that Hugo may earn the notebook back by working for him until he pays for all the things he stole from the shop. The next day, Méliès gives some ashes to Hugo, referring to them as the notebook's remains, but Isabelle informs him that the notebook was not burnt. She convinces him to go home and promises to help. To recover the notebook, Hugo follows Méliès to his house and meets Georges's goddaughter Isabelle ( Chloë Grace Moretz), a girl close to his age. The Train Inspector ( Sacha Baron Cohen), who is a handicapped gendarme, and his hound dog run after Hugo, pushing customers out of their way. Hugo presses for the return of his notebook, so the angry Méliès - who's very interested in the notebook - shouts at him, calling him a thief. Méliès sets a trap with a toy mouse and catches Hugo, then takes Hugo's notebook, which holds his notes and drawings for fixing the automaton. Hugo steals mechanical parts in the station to repair the automaton, but he is caught by a shopkeeper named Georges Méliès ( Ben Kingsley), who makes, sells, and repairs toys. Convinced that the automaton contains a message from his father, Hugo goes to desperate lengths to fix it. Hugo lives between the walls of the station, maintaining the clocks, stealing food and working on his father's most ambitious project: repairing a broken automaton, a mechanical man who is supposed to write with a pen. His uncle teaches him to take care of the clocks, then disappears. (Méliès is an historical figure, a pioneer of the cinema.) Hugo's father is burned alive in a museum fire, and Hugo is taken away by his uncle Claude (), an alcoholic watchmaker who is responsible for maintaining the clocks in the Gare Montparnasse, a Paris railway station. Hugo's father ( Jude Law) takes him to see films and loves the films of Georges Méliès best of all. In Paris in 1931, Hugo Cabret ( Asa Butterfield), a 12-year-old boy, lives with his widowed father, a kind and devoted master clockmaker.
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