
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
The very first of extremely popular novels of J.K. Rowling about Harry Potter is adopted in this film. On his eleventh birthday Harry discovers that he is the orphaned son of two high-powered wizards and he starts cultivating his own exceptional magic powers.

















3 February 1970, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK

25 February 1986, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK

24 August 1988, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, UK

12 June 1986, Westminster, London, England, UK

27 March 1958, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK

27 June 1989, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK


8 November 1983, Auckland, New Zealand

27 January 1953, Warwickshire, England, UK



June 27, 2011
Although it suffers nominally from being over-stuffed and under-paced, it's grand and involving, with magnificent production design and special effects, and some fabulous thesps present and correct.
February 09, 2006
What a feast for children! Long, and engrossing. Kids will love it! Wizard!
November 13, 2015
Harry Potter's first venture onto the screen is a solid blockbuster.
November 27, 2013
Harry Potter's adventures in wizard-land are cozy and comfortable in Chris Columbus' faithful adaptation.
March 05, 2008
A near-perfect commercial and cultural commodity.
November 27, 2013
This faithful rendition of the inaugural Potter book demonstrates that the franchise is in safe, sensible hands.
August 09, 2002
It offers more delights than disappointments -- and that qualifies as one of the year's great reliefs.
June 15, 2013
A surprisingly excellent exciting fantasy flick...
March 05, 2008
I hear the J.K. Rowling books are great, and on the basis of this 2001 movie I'm ready to believe it.
January 27, 2013
Slow, but it establishes the myth, the cast and the look. And it's holding up surprisingly well.
June 16, 2015
Chris Columbus has created an extraordinarily detailed look that's both fantastic and yet has its own reality - exactly like an English public school, come to think of it, especially in your first term .
November 27, 2013
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is, despite its trickery, that plainest and least surprising of artifacts: the work of art that is exactly the sum of its parts, neither more nor less.