Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone
An adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling's immensely popular novels about Harry Potter, a boy whose life is tranformed on his eleventh birthday when he learns that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses unique magical powers of his own.
15 July 1963, London, England, UK
29 February 1984, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
8 February 1989, Bracknell, Berkshire, England, UK
13 March 1989, London, England, UK
19 May 1967, County Meath, Ireland
11 March 1940, Fulham, London, England, UK
27 March 1958, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
June 16, 2015
Chris Columbus has created an extraordinarily detailed look that's both fantastic and yet has its own reality - exactly like an English public school, come to think of it, especially in your first term .
November 27, 2013
This faithful rendition of the inaugural Potter book demonstrates that the franchise is in safe, sensible hands.
March 05, 2008
A near-perfect commercial and cultural commodity.
January 27, 2013
Slow, but it establishes the myth, the cast and the look. And it's holding up surprisingly well.
February 09, 2006
What a feast for children! Long, and engrossing. Kids will love it! Wizard!
November 27, 2013
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is, despite its trickery, that plainest and least surprising of artifacts: the work of art that is exactly the sum of its parts, neither more nor less.
August 09, 2002
It offers more delights than disappointments -- and that qualifies as one of the year's great reliefs.
March 05, 2008
I hear the J.K. Rowling books are great, and on the basis of this 2001 movie I'm ready to believe it.
November 27, 2013
Harry Potter's adventures in wizard-land are cozy and comfortable in Chris Columbus' faithful adaptation.
June 27, 2011
Although it suffers nominally from being over-stuffed and under-paced, it's grand and involving, with magnificent production design and special effects, and some fabulous thesps present and correct.
November 13, 2015
Harry Potter's first venture onto the screen is a solid blockbuster.
June 15, 2013
A surprisingly excellent exciting fantasy flick...
