Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling's popular children's novels about Harry Potter, a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses unique magical powers of his own. He is summoned from his life as an unwanted child to become a student at Hogwarts, an English boarding school for wizards. There, he meets several friends who become his closest allies and help him discover the truth about his parents' mysterious deaths.
Release date: November 14, 2001 (USA)
Director: Chris Columbus
Box office: 974.8 million USD
Film series: Harry Potter
Adapted from: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Art directors: Stuart Craig, Neil Lamont, Lucinda Thomson