Laura's Star


Laura's Star is a 2004 German animated feature film produced and directed by Thilo Rothkirch. It is based on the children's book Lauras Stern by Klaus Baumgart. It was released by the German distribution unit of Warner Bros. Pictures, and the final film officially released through the Warner Bros. Family Entertainment label.

Plot

Laura is a seven-year-old country girl, who just moved along with her family to a big city. On her first night in her new neighborhood, she sees a shooting star falling to Earth. Laura finds the star in a park and discovers that it is a living being. The star had severed one of its points during its crash landing. Laura takes the star back home, in order to reattach its point with a band-aid.
Laura and her younger brother Tommy discover the little star has super powers and can do amazing things; like making people fly and bringing inanimate objects to life. But over time both notice that the longer the star stays on Earth, the weaker it becomes. The siblings and their next-door neighbor Max eventually find a way to send the little star back into outer space.

Cast

The film featured the songs "Stay" and "Touch the Sky" by the German band Wonderwall and a film score by Hans Zimmer and Nick Glennie-Smith.

Release

The film was one of the most popular animated films in 2004, and it has become the most successful animated film in all German film history. Warner Bros also produced an English version of the movie which was released in the United Kingdom and the United States the same year, it is so far the only Laura's Star movie to be dubbed into English.

Accolades

In September 2009, Warner Bros. released a sequel film, Lauras Stern und der geheimnisvolle Drache Nian which translates to "Laura's Star and the Mysterious Dragon Nian", and in October 2011, another sequel, titled Lauras Stern und die Traummonster which translates to "Laura's Star and the Dream Monsters".