Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Acclaimed director Tim Burton brings his vividly imaginative style to the beloved Roald Dahl classic Charlie & the Chocolate Factory about eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp) & Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore) a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka&s extraordinary factory Most nights in the Bucket home dinner is a watered-down bowl of cabbage soup which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother (Helena Bonham Carter) & father (Noah Taylor) & both pairs of grandparents Theirs is a tiny tumbledown drafty old house but it is filled with love Every night the last thing Charlie sees from his window is the great factory & he drifts off to sleep dreaming about what might be inside For nearly fifteen years no one has seen a single worker going in or coming out of the factory or caught a glimpse of Willy Wonka himself yet mysteriously great quantities of chocolate are still being made & shipped to shops all over the world One day Willy Wonka makes a momentous announcement He will open his famous factory & reveal "all of its secrets & magic" to five lucky children who find golden tickets hidden inside five randomly selected Wonka chocolate bars Nothing would make Charlie&s family happier than to see him win but the odds are very much against him as they can only afford to buy one chocolate bar a year for his birthday Indeed one by one news breaks around the world about the children finding golden tickets & Charlie&s hope grows dimmer First there is gluttonous Augustus Gloop who thinks of nothing but stuffing sweets into his mouth all day followed by spoiled Veruca Salt who throws fits if her father doesn&t buy her everything she wants Next comes violet Beauregarde a champion gum chewer who cares only for the trophies in her display case & finally surly Mike Teavee who&s always showing off how much smarter he is than everyone else But then something wonderful happens Charlie finds some money on the snowy street & takes it to the nearest store for a Wonka Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight thinking only of how hungry he is & how good it will taste There under the wrapper is a flash of gold It&s the last ticket Charlie is going to the factory! His Grandpa Joe (David Kelly) is so excited by the news that he springs out of bed as if suddenly years younger remembering a happier time when he used to work in the factory before Willy Wonka closed its gates to the town forever The family decides that Grandpa Joe should be the one to accompany Charlie on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure Actors Johnny Depp Freddie Highmore David Kelly Helena Bonham Carter Noah Taylor Missi Pyle James Fox Deep Roy Christopher Lee Adam Godley Franziska Troegner Annasophia Robb Julia Winter Jordon Fry & Philip Wiegratz Director Tim Burton Certificate PGYear 2005 Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 55 minutes (approx)