Arthur Christmas is a British/American 2011 3-D computer animated Christmas fantasy comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation and Aardman Animations and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was released on November 11, 2011, in the UK and on November 23, 2011, in the USA. The film was directed by Sarah Smith, and it features voices of James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Ashley Jensen. Set in the North Pole, the plot tells about Santa's son Arthur Christmas, who must complete a mission before Christmas morning. It is Aardman Animations' first... computer-animated cinema feature with Sony Pictures Animation. Set on Christmas Eve, the film opens with hundreds of elves helming the command centre of Santa's mile-wide, ultra–high-tech sleigh, the S-1. Santa and the elves deliver presents to every child in the world using advanced equipment and military precision. These complex operations are micromanaged by Santa's oldest son Steve and his obsequious elfin assistant Peter at mission control underneath the North Pole, while Steve's clumsy and panophobic younger brother Arthur answers the letters to Santa.
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| Release date: | November 11, 2011 |
| Directed by: | Barry Cook, Sarah Smith |
| Producer: | Steve Pegram |
| Editor: | James Cooper |
| Music by: | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| Cinematography: | Jericca Cleland |
| Screenplay by: | Peter Baynham, Sarah Smith |
| Genre: | Animation, Comedy |