Tagline: Let your imagination soar.
Around the World in 80 Days. In this highly inventive take on Verne’s classic, Passepartout (Chan) must make it to China in order to return a valuable jade Buddha that was stolen from his family’s village. He seeks refuge with an eccentric London inventor, Phineas Fogg (Coogan), who puts his reputation, fortune, and career on the line in a daring bet to make it around the world in eighty days.
Joining them is Monique (De France), a young French artist who decides that a trip around the world would provide new inspiration. Opposing the group is Lord Kelvin (Broadbent), who’s wagered his position as head of the Royal Academy of Science against their journey’s success. Their incredible adventure spans many colorful and exotic lands from historic London to Paris, Turkey, India, China, across the Great Seas, to a burgeoning United States, and more.
Along the way, the group encounters an eclectic assortment of characters including Queen Victoria (Bates), a Scotland Yard Sergeant (Cleese), a hot air balloon engineer (Branson), a Turkish Prince (Schwarzenegger), an eccentric inventor (Schneider), the Wright Brothers (Owen and Luke Wilson), and many other international star cameos.
Fabulous adventures, hilarious predicaments, and exhilarating action await an all-star international cast as three unlikely heroes attempt to settle an outrageous wager in Disney/Walden’s new spectacle for the whole family, “Around the World in 80 Days starring Jackie Chan. An eccentric London inventor, Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan), has come up with the secrets to flight, electricity, and even in-line skates, but the establishment has dismissed him as a crackpot. Desperate to be taken seriously, Fogg makes an outlandish bet with Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent), the head of the Royal Academy of Science: to circumnavigate the globe in no more than 80 days! With his valet Passepartout (Jackie Chan) and thrill-seeking French artist
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Directed by: Frank Coraci
Starring: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cecille de France, Jim Broadbent, Kathy Bates, Karen Joy Morris, Rob Schneider, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson
Screenplay by: David Titcher, David Benullo & David Goldstein
Production Design by: Perry Andelin Blake
Cinematography by: Phil Meheux
Film Editing by: Tom Lewis
Costume Design by: Anna B. Sheppard
Set Decoration by: Jille Azis
Art Direction by: Robert Cowper, Gary Freeman, Sebastian T. Krawinkel, Pat Tagliaferro
Music by: Trevor Jones, David A. Stewart
MPAA Rating: PG for violence, crude humor and mild language.
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: June 16, 2004
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