Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- by Steve Kloves, directed by Alfonso Cuarón
- Feature Film
- Fantasy
- YA and Up
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by Steve Kloves, directed by Alfonso Cuarón (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City, 23 May 2004).
Compared to the books, I find the Harry Potter movies drawn-out and boring, but I rewatched this one during the pandemic and found that I enjoyed all three thirteen-year-olds as well as Hagrid, Sirius, Snape, Lupin, and—most of all—the fact that the filmmakers didn’t blithely destroy the single static timeline out of a misplaced sense that time travelers are meant to change the timeline willy-nilly.
—Michael Main
Hang on! That’s not possible. Ancient Runes is at the same time as Divination. You’d have to be in two classes at once.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: presumed to be 1999, the year of the book release
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Magic Time Travel
- Wearable Time Object: the time-turner
- Themes
- Causal Loops: How many causal loops can you spot during Hermione and Harry’s four and a half hours back in time? Start with Harry seeing himself cast a Patronus, which allowed him to later cast a Patronus, so he could see the Patronus, . . .
- Self-Visitation: Hermione and Harry
- Fictional Tags
- Giants: Hagrid
- Minotaurs, Centaurs, and Other Mash-Ups: Buckbeak, the hippogriff
- Vampires and Soul-Suckers: Dementors
- Werecreatures: Lupin
- Witches, Warlocks, Wizards, Magicians, etc.
- Groupings
Variants
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- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by Steve Kloves, directed by Alfonso Cuarón (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City, 23 May 2004).
- Harry Potter i el pres d'Azkaban [Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban] by Steve Kloves, directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
- Harry Potter et le prisonnier d'Azkaban [Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban] by Steve Kloves, directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
- Harry Potter y el prisionero de Azkaban [Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban] by Steve Kloves, directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
Translations
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- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by Steve Kloves, directed by Alfonso Cuarón (premiered at an unknown movie theater, New York City, 23 May 2004).
- Catalan (dubbed and subtitled).
Harry Potter i el pres d'Azkaban [Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban] by Steve Kloves, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. - French (dubbed and subtitled).
Harry Potter et le prisonnier d'Azkaban [Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban] by Steve Kloves, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. - Spanish (dubbed and subtitled).
Harry Potter y el prisionero de Azkaban [Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban] by Steve Kloves, directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
Previous Works
adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (1999)