The Polar Express (2004)

1h 40min | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | Nov 10, 2004 | Released

When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Producer: Robert Zemeckis Steve Starkey Gary Goetzman William Teitler

Writer(s): Robert Zemeckis William Broyles Jr.

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Cast (51 Members)

Josh Hutcherson

Hero Boy

Tom Hanks

Hero Boy / Father / Conductor / Hobo / Scrooge / Santa Claus...

Ed Gale

Elf

Michael Jeter

Smokey / Steamer (voice)

Jimmy Bennett

Lonely Boy Billy (voice)

Phil Fondacaro

Elf

Charles Fleischer

Elf General (voice)

Nona Gaye

Hero Girl (voice)

Debbie Lee Carrington

Elf

Chris Coppola

Toothless Boy (voice)

Steven Tyler

Elf Lieutenant (voice)

Evan Sabara

Young Boy

Julene Renee

Red Head Girl (voice)

Leslie Zemeckis

Sister Sarah / Mother (voice)

Eddie Deezen

Know-It-All (voice)

Peter Scolari

Lonely Boy Billy (voice)

Hero Boy (voice)

Acrobatic Elf

Waiter

Elf

Boy on Train (voice)

Smokey and Steamer (voice)

Ashly Holloway

Sister Sarah (additional motion capture)

Tinashe

Hero Girl (motion-capture modelling)

Jimmy 'Jax' Pinchak

Know-it-all Kid (additional motion capture)

Andy Pellick

Pastry Chef

Elisabeth P. Carpenter

Acrobatic Elf

Toothless Boy

Little Boy

Acrobatic Elf

Waiter

Lonely Boy Billy (additional motion capture)

Waiter

Waiter

Sister Sarah (voice)

Hero Girl (additional motion capture modelling)

Chantel Valdivieso

Hero Girl (additional motion capture)

Meagan Moore

Hero Girl (singing voice)

Matthew Hall

Lonely Boy Billy (singing voice)

Pastry Chef

Waiter

Waiter

Waiter

Acrobatic Elf

Acrobatic Elf

Acrobatic Elf

Acrobatic Elf

Acrobatic Elf

Acrobatic Elf

Acrobatic Elf

Wolves (uncredited)

Josh Hutcherson Hero Boy

Tom Hanks Hero Boy / Father / Conductor / Hobo / Scrooge / Santa Claus...

Ed Gale Elf

Michael Jeter Smokey / Steamer (voice)

Jimmy Bennett Lonely Boy Billy (voice)

Phil Fondacaro Elf

Charles Fleischer Elf General (voice)

Nona Gaye Hero Girl (voice)

Debbie Lee Carrington Elf

Chris Coppola Toothless Boy (voice)

Steven Tyler Elf Lieutenant (voice)

Evan Sabara Young Boy

Julene Renee Red Head Girl (voice)

Leslie Zemeckis Sister Sarah / Mother (voice)

Eddie Deezen Know-It-All (voice)

Peter Scolari Lonely Boy Billy (voice)

Daryl Sabara Hero Boy (voice)

Aaron Hendry Acrobatic Elf

Gregory Gast Waiter

Mark Povinelli Elf

Dylan Cash Boy on Train (voice)

André Sogliuzzo Smokey and Steamer (voice)

Ashly Holloway Sister Sarah (additional motion capture)

Tinashe Hero Girl (motion-capture modelling)

Jimmy 'Jax' Pinchak Know-it-all Kid (additional motion capture)

Andy Pellick Pastry Chef

Elisabeth P. Carpenter Acrobatic Elf

Connor Matheus Toothless Boy

Dante Pastula Little Boy

Bill Forchion Acrobatic Elf

Mark Goodman Waiter

Hayden McFarland Lonely Boy Billy (additional motion capture)

Gordon Hart Waiter

Rolandas Hendricks Waiter

Isabella Peregrina Sister Sarah (voice)

Chantel Valdivieso Hero Girl (additional motion capture modelling)

Chantel Valdivieso Hero Girl (additional motion capture)

Meagan Moore Hero Girl (singing voice)

Matthew Hall Lonely Boy Billy (singing voice)

Brendan King Pastry Chef

Josh Eli Waiter

Mark Mendonca Waiter

Jon Scott Waiter

Eric Newton Acrobatic Elf

Aidan O'Shea Acrobatic Elf

Kevin C. Carr Acrobatic Elf

Jena Carpenter Acrobatic Elf

Karine Mauffrey Acrobatic Elf

Devin Henderson Acrobatic Elf

Sagiv Ben-Binyamin Acrobatic Elf

Rodger Bumpass Wolves (uncredited)

Crew (238 Members)

Director

Producer

Executive Producer

Director of Photography

Alan Silvestri

Original Music Composer

Screenplay

Production Design

Costume Design

Casting

Chief Lighting Technician

Tom Johnson

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Boom Operator

Foley

Foley

Sound Recordist

Production Illustrator

Art Direction

Foley

Associate Producer

Visual Effects Supervisor

William Ross

Orchestrator

Dennis Leonard

Supervising Sound Editor

James Hegedus

Art Direction

Dana Gong

Post Production Assistant

Makeup Artist

Set Decoration

Property Master

Executive Producer

Director of Photography

Editor

Production Design

Makeup Artist

Makeup Artist

Deborah La Mia Denaver

Key Makeup Artist

Producer

Makeup Artist

Songs

Associate Producer

Sound Designer

Associate Producer

VFX Supervisor

Digital Effects Supervisor

Chris Juen

Digital Producer

Martin A. Kline

Visual Effects Art Director

Scott Herbertson

Assistant Art Director

Book

Producer

Co-Producer

Editor

Casting

Orchestrator

Orchestrator

Executive In Charge Of Production

William B. Kaplan

Production Sound Mixer

Ronald G. Roumas

Sound Recordist

Michael Lantieri

Special Effects Coordinator

Propmaker

Set Dresser

Dialogue Editor

Driver

Set Designer

Art Direction

Modeling

Animation

Musician

Stunts

Production Accountant

Creative Producer

3D Artist

Still Photographer

Production Coordinator

Stunts

Makeup Artist

Hairstylist

Script Supervisor

Assistant Art Director

Jane E. Russell

Unit Publicist

John P. Goldsmith

Assistant Art Director

Hairstylist

Layout

Costume Supervisor

Set Costumer

Musician

Makeup Artist

Art Direction

Color Timer

Assistant Art Director

John Villarino

Construction Coordinator

Will Files

Sound Design Assistant

Brian Machleit

Stunts

Masako Masuda

Set Designer

Jim Wallis

Assistant Art Director

Kenneth Karman

Music Editor

Craig Sost

Visual Effects Producer

David C. Hughes

Sound Effects Editor

Gene Radzik

Dolby Consultant

John Clinton

Visual Effects Producer

Camera Operator

Hair Designer

Leadman

Makeup Artist

Key Hair Stylist

Set Designer

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Foley Editor

Digital Intermediate

Sound Effects Editor

Makeup Artist

Foley Editor

Samuel R. Harrison III

Video Assist Operator

George Denes Suhayda

Visual Effects Art Director

Digital Compositors

Set Designer

Driver

Animation

Visual Effects Editor

Hairstylist

Layout

Key Hair Stylist

Animation

Casting Assistant

Visual Effects Coordinator

Key Hair Stylist

Animation

Animation

Animation

Animation

Animation

Camera Operator

Modeling

Layout

Set Designer

First Assistant Editor

Stunts

Makeup Artist

VFX Editor

Makeup Artist

Stephen M. Rickert Jr.

VFX Editor

Lori Smallwood

Visual Effects

Randy Cantor

Transportation Coordinator

Mark Scoon

Executive In Charge Of Production

Robin Richesson

Costume Illustrator

Mark Lambert

Digital Effects Supervisor

Brian Feola

Construction Foreman

Donna Cicatelli-Lewis

Makeup Artist

John Carrafa

Choreographer

Michael J. Coo

Key Grip

Tom Armbruster

Motion Capture Artist

Jep Hill

Sequence Supervisor

Diana Goodwin

Art Department Coordinator

Erin Collins Butler

Art Department Coordinator

Susan Fried

Casting Associate

David Schaub

Animation Supervisor

Rob Bredow

Digital Effects Supervisor

Alberto Menache

Digital Effects Supervisor

Rob Engle

Digital Effects Supervisor

David Parrish

Sequence Supervisor

Robert Winter

Sequence Supervisor

Timothy Loughran

Visual Effects Coordinator

Chris McLeod

Visual Effects Coordinator

Jarrod Nesbit

Visual Effects Coordinator

Alison Learned Wolf

First Assistant Editor

Mo Henry

Negative Cutter

Gary Burritt

Negative Cutter

Ryan Cosgrove

Art Department Assistant

James Thatcher

Musician

Rick Kelly

Second Assistant Director

Character Designer

Set Designer

Set Designer

Set Designer

Assistant Editor

Layout

Maksymillian Naporowski

Layout

Carlos Pedroza

Layout

Bradlee Thomas Emmons III

Rigging Gaffer

Grip

Musician

Best Boy Electric

Visual Effects

Stunts

Rigging Grip

Musician

Animation

Musician

Set Production Assistant

Musician

Key Costumer

Set Dressing Artist

Driver

Software Engineer

Stunt Coordinator

Stunts

Digital Intermediate

Lighting Artist

Production Supervisor

Storyboard

Animation

Makeup Artist

Makeup Artist

Character Modelling Supervisor

Adrian Iler

Sequence Supervisor

Frances Kumashiro

Lighting Artist

Quentin Frost

Visual Effects Technical Director

Brian C. Davis

Visual Effects

Daniel James Weber

Visual Effects Technical Director

Makeup Artist

Lighting Artist

Musician

Software Engineer

Modeling

Additional Editing

Animation

Animation

Animation

Camera Operator

Digital Producer

Grip

Grip

Lighting Artist

Makeup Artist

Modeling

Modeling

Modeling

Modeling

Motion Capture Artist

Musician

Musician

Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Special Effects

VFX Artist

VFX Artist

Visual Effects

Visual Effects

Visual Effects

Visual Effects

Visual Effects

Robert Zemeckis Director

Steve Starkey Producer

Tom Hanks Executive Producer

Don Burgess Director of Photography

Alan Silvestri Original Music Composer

William Broyles Jr. Screenplay

Rick Carter Production Design

Joanna Johnston Costume Design

Victoria Burrows Casting

Steven C. McGee Chief Lighting Technician

Tom Johnson Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Cary Weitz Boom Operator

Dennie Thorpe Foley

Jana Vance Foley

Brian Magerkurth Sound Recordist

Oliver Scholl Production Illustrator

Tony Fanning Art Direction

Ellen Heuer Foley

Josh McLaglen Associate Producer

Jim Berney Visual Effects Supervisor

William Ross Orchestrator

Dennis Leonard Supervising Sound Editor

James Hegedus Art Direction

Dana Gong Post Production Assistant

Daniel C. Striepeke Makeup Artist

Karen O'Hara Set Decoration

Robin L. Miller Property Master

Jack Rapke Executive Producer

Robert Presley Director of Photography

Jeremiah O'Driscoll Editor

Doug Chiang Production Design

Tegan Taylor Makeup Artist

Nacoma Whobrey Makeup Artist

Deborah La Mia Denaver Key Makeup Artist

Gary Goetzman Producer

Leo Corey Castellano Makeup Artist

Glen Ballard Songs

Peter M. Tobyansen Associate Producer

Randy Thom Sound Designer

Debbie Denise Associate Producer

Ken Ralston VFX Supervisor

Sean Phillips Digital Effects Supervisor

Chris Juen Digital Producer

Martin A. Kline Visual Effects Art Director

Scott Herbertson Assistant Art Director

Chris van Allsburg Book

William Teitler Producer

Steven J. Boyd Co-Producer

R. Orlando Duenas Editor

Scot Boland Casting

Conrad Pope Orchestrator

Joel McNeely Orchestrator

Zane Weiner Executive In Charge Of Production

William B. Kaplan Production Sound Mixer

Ronald G. Roumas Sound Recordist

Michael Lantieri Special Effects Coordinator

Richard Robinson Propmaker

Richard Blake Wester Set Dresser

Jonathan Null Dialogue Editor

Joseph Sullivan Driver

Todd Cherniawsky Set Designer

Norman Newberry Art Direction

Dean Wolcott Modeling

Jordan Harris Animation

George Doering Musician

Jeff Evans Stunts

Daryl C. Lefever Production Accountant

Enfys Dickinson Creative Producer

Michael Condro 3D Artist

François Duhamel Still Photographer

Gabriela Ríos Production Coordinator

David Hugghins Stunts

Jane English Makeup Artist

Avneet Kaur Hairstylist

Luca Kouimelis Script Supervisor

Andrew L. Jones Assistant Art Director

Jane E. Russell Unit Publicist

John P. Goldsmith Assistant Art Director

Scott Parrish Hairstylist

Fernando Benítez Layout

Pamela Wise Costume Supervisor

Anthony Almaraz Set Costumer

Eric Bradley Musician

Robert Ryan Makeup Artist

Alicia Maccarone Art Direction

Terry Haggar Color Timer

Mike Stassi Assistant Art Director

John Villarino Construction Coordinator

Will Files Sound Design Assistant

Brian Machleit Stunts

Masako Masuda Set Designer

Jim Wallis Assistant Art Director

Kenneth Karman Music Editor

Craig Sost Visual Effects Producer

David C. Hughes Sound Effects Editor

Gene Radzik Dolby Consultant

John Clinton Visual Effects Producer

Patrick B. O'Brien Camera Operator

Kathryn Blondell Hair Designer

David C. Potter Leadman

Cinzia Zanetti Makeup Artist

Audrey L. Anzures Key Hair Stylist

Kenneth A. Larson Set Designer

Dennis S. Sands Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Sue Fox Foley Editor

C. Marie Davis Digital Intermediate

Scott Guitteau Sound Effects Editor

Bill Myer Makeup Artist

E. Larry Oatfield Foley Editor

Samuel R. Harrison III Video Assist Operator

George Denes Suhayda Visual Effects Art Director

John E. Sasaki Digital Compositors

Jeffrey Beck Set Designer

Joey Freitas Driver

Alice V. Kaiserian Animation

Timothy Eaton Visual Effects Editor

Ketty Gonzalez Hairstylist

Joseph Thomas Layout

Roxane Griffin Key Hair Stylist

Paul Jessel Animation

Josh Einsohn Casting Assistant

Rocco Pucillo Visual Effects Coordinator

Tyler Ely Key Hair Stylist

Stéphane Couture Animation

Seth Hippen Animation

Jeff Lin Animation

Denis Samoilov Animation

Danny Wawrzaszek Animation

David Howard Camera Operator

Jeff Frost Modeling

Juan Gonzalez Layout

Jackson Bishop Set Designer

Alex Olivares First Assistant Editor

Shane Habberstad Stunts

Robert Norin Makeup Artist

James Andrykowski VFX Editor

Angie Wells Makeup Artist

Stephen M. Rickert Jr. VFX Editor

Lori Smallwood Visual Effects

Randy Cantor Transportation Coordinator

Mark Scoon Executive In Charge Of Production

Robin Richesson Costume Illustrator

Mark Lambert Digital Effects Supervisor

Brian Feola Construction Foreman

Donna Cicatelli-Lewis Makeup Artist

John Carrafa Choreographer

Michael J. Coo Key Grip

Tom Armbruster Motion Capture Artist

Jep Hill Sequence Supervisor

Diana Goodwin Art Department Coordinator

Erin Collins Butler Art Department Coordinator

Susan Fried Casting Associate

David Schaub Animation Supervisor

Rob Bredow Digital Effects Supervisor

Alberto Menache Digital Effects Supervisor

Rob Engle Digital Effects Supervisor

David Parrish Sequence Supervisor

Robert Winter Sequence Supervisor

Timothy Loughran Visual Effects Coordinator

Chris McLeod Visual Effects Coordinator

Jarrod Nesbit Visual Effects Coordinator

Alison Learned Wolf First Assistant Editor

Mo Henry Negative Cutter

Gary Burritt Negative Cutter

Ryan Cosgrove Art Department Assistant

James Thatcher Musician

Rick Kelly Second Assistant Director

Vladimir Todorov Character Designer

Cathlyn Marshall Set Designer

Smokey Stover Set Designer

Kseniya Hoppe Set Designer

Ryan Chan Assistant Editor

Corey Hels Layout

Maksymillian Naporowski Layout

Carlos Pedroza Layout

Bradlee Thomas Emmons III Rigging Gaffer

Mark P. Coo Grip

M.B. Gordy Musician

Edward J. Cox Best Boy Electric

Oscar G. Castillo Visual Effects

Matthew Rugetti Stunts

Ronald A. Miller Rigging Grip

Kevin Connolly Musician

Keith Paciello Animation

Matt Chamberlain Musician

Ken C. Wu Set Production Assistant

Wade Culbreath Musician

Diana Wilson Key Costumer

Scott Owen Set Dressing Artist

Paulie DiCocco Driver

Christopher Burdorf Software Engineer

Allen Robinson Stunt Coordinator

Mark Chadwick Stunts

Paul McGhee Digital Intermediate

Glen Gustafson Lighting Artist

Sande Scoredos Production Supervisor

Maureen Beatty Storyboard

Martin L'Heureux Animation

Karen Westerfield Makeup Artist

Lisa Buono Makeup Artist

Edward Taylor IV Character Modelling Supervisor

Adrian Iler Sequence Supervisor

Frances Kumashiro Lighting Artist

Quentin Frost Visual Effects Technical Director

Brian C. Davis Visual Effects

Daniel James Weber Visual Effects Technical Director

Nadege Schoenfeld Makeup Artist

Ben Radcliffe Lighting Artist

Patricio Castillo Musician

J. Robert Ray Software Engineer

Mark Krentz Modeling

W. Layne Mcdonald Additional Editing

Alex Tysowsky Animation

Jon L. Hooper Animation

Marco Marenghi Animation

Matt Cohen Camera Operator

Daniel Kuehn Digital Producer

Adam W. Erler Grip

Mitchell K. Hiniker Grip

Mark Hamilton Lighting Artist

Dale Condit Makeup Artist

Dustin Zachary Modeling

Kim Smith Modeling

Marc Steinberg Modeling

Tony Bohorquez Modeling

Mark Lipsmeyer Motion Capture Artist

Andrew Bain Musician

Marcia Dickstein Musician

Brian Hall Software Engineer

Min-Zhi Shao Software Engineer

Kevin Gillen Special Effects

Dan Kessler VFX Artist

Ergin Kuke VFX Artist

Hae-Jeon Lee Visual Effects

Kyudon Choi Visual Effects

Len White Visual Effects

Nick Gray Visual Effects

Sandra Warren Visual Effects

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The Polar Express (2004)

1h 40min | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | Nov 10, 2004 | Released

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