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May 16, 2007
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Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Directed by Mel Stuart, starring Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrum

It starts with a great book. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was always ripe for adaptation to the big screen, although only the truly ambitious would be able to really make the kind of movie that embraced author Roald Dahl's feverish imagination. Thankfully, high production values and a first rate cast do the text justice, so much so, that the recent remake faced a water mark far too high for it to reach. Johnny Depp may make a wonderfully rapscallion pirate but as Willy Wonka, he cannot compare to Gene Wilder.

Wilder embodies the eccentric candyman. He is equal parts dark and charming, ...

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