![]() ![]() Hugo races back to the Timekeeper’s apartment, eager to try out the key. He repays her kindness by giving her a hug, during which he surreptitiously lifts her intriguing key necklace. The next day at the store, the old man accuses Hugo of stealing the notebook from his house, but really, Isabella found it and returns it to Hugo. Isabella notices and hides the key and refuses to answer Hugo’s questions about it. When Hugo helps her up, he notices her necklace, a heart-shaped skeleton key that exactly matches the key hole on his automaton. He runs away and Isabella gives chase pell-mell. Upon returning to the train station, the pair has a spat when Hugo refuses to reveal his identity. They sneak into the movie anyway, where they are later caught and thrown out. Etienne usually sneaks kids in for free, but when Isabella and Hugo arrive they learn Etienne has been fired. Hugo agrees to go because he remembers his father describing a movie he once saw about a rocket that was flown into the moon. Isabella is passionate about movies even though her guardian, Papa George, hates them and refuses to take her. Isabella invites Hugo to the movies, where her friend Etienne, a one-eyed film aficionado works. Isabella and Hugo establish a sort of friendship although Hugo is secretive of his living circumstances and his past. Isabella, the young girl who is Papa George’s charge, swears it has not been destroyed and vows to help Hugo get it back. He even goes so far as to pretend that he has burned the notebook. Recognizing the drawings, Papa George demands to know where Hugo stole it from and refuses to get it back. Forced to turn out his pockets, Papa George confiscates a notebook containing drawings and designs for the automaton, Hugo’s most treasured possession. One day the hapless Hugo is caught red-handed by the toy store owner, Papa George. He is also always on the lookout for the Station Master. He surveilles the store regularly and notices a young girl, who is perhaps the shopkeepers granddaughter. ![]() Food isn’t the only thing that Hugo steals, however, and although he hates stealing, he makes exceptions for parts for the machine, which he steals from the toy store. When one evening the uncle fails to return home, and Hugo is left to fend for himself, working single-handedly to keep the clocks in good order and stealing croissants and milk just to survive. He believes if he can fix the machine it will somehow have a message for him from his father. He rescues the machine from the trash heap and carts it home to the train station for repairs. In the rubble, he discovers the remains of an automaton, which they had worked on before his father’s untimely demise. His path accidentally passes the ruins of the museum where his father died. Hugo is deeply unhappy with his uncle and resolves to run-away. For a time he lives with his gruff, alcoholic uncle who keeps the clocks running on time in a Paris train station. Hugo Cabret, a young horologist, is left alone in the world when his father is accidentally killed in museum fire. ![]()
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