Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart Trailer Released

Shout! Factory have released the trailer for Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart, the upcoming [...]

By Russ Burlingame

Shout! Factory have released the trailer for Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart, the upcoming animated feature getting a limited theatrical release next month before it comes to home video.

The film opens in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Scottsdale, Denver, Atlanta, Detroit, Miami, Houston, Orlando and Tampa beginning Sept 24, 2014, when it will also be simultaneously released on video-on-demand services. It will be available on DVD in Wal-Mart stores on October 7. It was released in France, where it was produced, in October.

The film features the voices of Orlando Seale (Pride and Prejudice), Samantha Barks (Les Misérables), Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Stéphane Cornicard (Saving Private Ryan) and Richard Ridings (Rise of the Planet of the Apes). 

Edinburgh, 1874. On the coldest day in the history of the world, little Jack is born with his heart frozen solid. Wasting no time, midwife Madeleine takes action and saves his life by inserting a cuckoo-clock in place of his icy heart. And now Jack will live…as long as he observes three golden rules:
He must never touch the hands of the clock.
He must master his anger.
He must never, ever fall in love.
But fall in love he does, to a bespectacled young street performer, Miss Acacia, with a soul-stirring voice. Now begins a journey of escape and pursuit, from Edinburgh to Paris to Miss Acacia's home in Andalusia. Based on the novel by Mathias Malzieu, Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a fantastical, wildly inventive tale of love and heartbreak — by turns poignant and funny — in which Jack finally learns the great joys, and ultimately the greater costs, of owning a fully formed heart.

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