Willy Wonka is the undisputed emperor of confectionary but when his gargantuan factory mysteriously closes, the city that surrounds it drifts towards poverty. When it is announced that there are five gold tickets to be found in Wonka bars and that they will allow those children lucky enough to find them into the very bowels of Willy Wonka's chocolate world, a frenzy of expectation breaks out. What the five lucky children find is a fantastical world of chocolate rivers, sugar boats, meadows made
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WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971)
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Roald Dahl's story about a poor boy who wins a trip round a magic chocolate factory and, like all Dahl stories, this is a moral tale with a distincly dark side to it. Gene Wilder is wonderfully cynical and sadistic as Mr Wonka and some of the sets are very psychedelic. This film is a lighter semi-musical version of the book - great for the kids.
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