Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Family adventure based on the novel by Roald Dahl The film centres around an 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 They all live in 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 When Charlie finds some money on the snowy street & takes it to the nearest store for a Wonka Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight he finds a golden ticket The family decides that Grandpa Joe (David Kelly) should be the one to accompany Charlie on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure Once inside Charlie is dazzled by one amazing sight after another