# Les Misérables (2012)

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**Runtime**: 158 min
**Genres**: History, Drama
**Directed by**: Tom Hooper
**Written by**: William Nicholson, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil
**Starring**: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen

> *Fight. Dream. Hope. Love.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Jean Valjean meets Les Mis without singing. A parole-breaker becomes mayor while Javert clocks every step, one cat-and-mouse decade. Les Mis delivers a revolution in close-ups and a one-man wrecking crew of a lead. Tom Hooper’s postcard France.

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 7.5/10 (360640 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 70% · Metacritic 63/100

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