12-year-old Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) has lost his father in a fire and is trying to fix the automaton they made together but can’t find the heart-shaped key that it needs to become alive. He’s living in a railway station with his Uncle Claude (Ray Winstone), who has gone missing and to keep station master Gustave Dasté (Sacha Baron Cohen) from sending him to an orphanage, he keeps fixing the many clocks within the train station.

In order to keep fixing the clocks and his robot, Hugo steals from a toy store. Caught by the owner, he has his notebook taken from him and must work in the store. There, he meets the man’s goddaughter Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz) and the two discover that the old man is actually filmmaker Georges Méliès.

This film makes me very emotional, as the first World War and bankruptcy kept Georges from living out his dreams. It takes a young boy, a robot and the realization that his films are seen as works of art and not wastes of time to bring the old man back to his dreams.

Much of the life story of the filmmaker are true: He was inspired by the Lumière brothers’ camera; he really was a magician and toymaker, creating automata; he owned the Théâtre Robert-Houdin) but was forced into bankruptcy and his film stick was melted down. After, he became a toy salesman at the Montparnasse station before history remembered him and he was awarded the Légion d’honneur medal.

Sadly, this movie was a bomb, losing $100 million. But the truth is, in time, that won’t be remembered. The emotion and the joy within this film will.

The Arrow Video 4K UHD release of Hugo is beyond filled with magic. There’s a 4K UHD of the 2D version of the movie and a blu ray version of the 2D and 3D cuts. Plus, the package is incredible, with a double-sided poster with original and new artwork by Tommy Pocket, who also created the sleeve artwork. There’s also an illustrated collector’s book with writing by film critic Farran Smith Nehme.

Extras include commentary by filmmaker and writer Jon Spira, publisher of The Lost Autobiography of Georges Méliès; a trailer; interviews with author Brian Selznick, composer Howard Shore and Ian Christie, the editor of Scorsese on Scorsese; a visual essay by filmmaker and critic Scout Tafoya; French film historian and author Julien Dupuy exploring the life and the legacy of Georges Méliès; film critic and historian Pamela Hutchinson exploring the history of the start of cinema; a visual essay by filmmaker and writer Jon Spira and five archival featurettes on the making of the film.

You can get the UHD from MVD. There’s also a blu ray edition.