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From left, Helen Mirren, Brendan Fraser, Rafi Gavron, Eliza Hope Bennett and Paul Bettany star in the fantasy adventure “Inkheart.”
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‘Inkheart’ adventure launches onto DVD

By Rob Lowman / Los Angeles Daily News

Iain Softley’s fantasy-adventure “Inkheart,” — based on the 2004 novel by Cornelia Funke — tries hard to be enchanting and has a number of wonderful actors including Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis and Jennifer Connelly. It’s too bad it never finds the magic. Brendan Fraser plays Mo Folchart, a book lover with a gift — when he reads aloud, the people and events on the written page spring to life, literally.

But when fiction blends with reality, things get dicey. Being about books and not Twitter, it’s a story you root for.

You just wish it had come to life.

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