Inkheart (2008) poster
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FilmPG2008

Inkheart

AdventureFamilyFantasy

Directed by Iain Softley

The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative. From TMDB

70 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 25, 2026 · last updated Oct 25, 2026 · How this works

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Inkheart is a 2008 adventure family fantasy film, directed by Iain Softley, starring Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany and Helen Mirren.

  • 66 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon
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  • Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2025

    More: - Patrick Ness’s “The Knife of Never Letting Go” & sequels (sci-fi, but very fantastical sci-fi); highly rec going in with no prior knowledge - Howl’s Moving Castle & the other Howl books, Jones (v diff than movie!) - Inkheart, Funke - The Mirror Visitor, Dabos (so good, so underappreciated!)

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  • recursive_recursion [they/them] @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 5, 2023

    Inkheart by Cornelia Funke is one of my most beloved series read that series several times and when they announced a movie I was so hyped! and the movie was just ok :C I haven't seen any movies based on books since then unless it receives high praises which I haven't seen much

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  • Buffy the Vagina Displayer @tibbittz.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    Inkheart: This is fine. It tries to be a faerie tale, but it's more of a crime boss/prison break movie. The magical conceit is cool AF tho, especially to a writer like me. The book in the movie sounds HELLA derivative; clever if metatextual. Weak point: Andy Serkis CAN'T act. #FilmSky Verdict: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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  • norimee @[email protected]Lemmy · Aug 20, 2024

    You ask as if that was a good thing. Like an honor for a book. But I way too often find myself defending books with "It's nothing like the movie. Don't juge it by the awful movie." Especially fantasy adaptions are regularly awful and damaging for the books. Examples: The Dark Tower, Eragon, Percy Jackson, The Giver, Inkheart. Netflix's Persuasion, The Beach to name a couple of non fantasy as well. So I'd rather they leave the books alone and make original stories into movies.

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  • Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 20, 2025

    I loved the Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funke as a kid but I feel like it’s kind of obscure. There was a film adaptation of the first book starring Brendan Fraser but I don’t think many people saw it.

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  • Taylor (tailored) @tay-unrushed.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2025

    It’s also the day Inkheart came out 🫢 this movie(book) fr ties everything in from Rapunzel to Wizard of Oz to Arabian Nights to Cinderella to finding an author’s OG manuscript. If a character is read off the page wrong they come out of the book with ink on their face and other imperfections

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  • 🦄 Feral Werewolf Dream Girl @octoberdream.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2024

    I loved this book but I don’t think I’ve seen this since it came out so can’t remember it but the cast is outstanding #filmsky 📽️ Trying to watch more fun fantasy movies but it’s hard to find, would appreciate any recs of this type. Inkheart

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  • Savannah @raynequartz.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2025

    Thought I'd introduce myself Name: Savannah (F24) she/her Job: bookseller Color: Phthalo green Sign: ♋️ Past time: reading books Fav food: lasagna Tattoos: 0 Piercings: 0 Music: R&B TV: crime Movie: Ferngully or The Goonies Book: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke Orientation: straight Eyes: brown

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  • 𝔠𝔥𝔶𝔪𝔢𝔯𝔞𝔧𝔞𝔡𝔢 @chymerajade.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2023

    Hot cocoa, Inkheart movie, and Notion

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  • Fox Tales 🇵🇱 @foxytales97.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    I will never shut up abt Inkheart trilogy by Cornelia Funk. It's been 15 years since I read it, but I read it twice, movie based on the first book has Brendan Fraser & Paul Bettany in it, & the world in these books is so beautifully written it's been living in my head rent-free this entire time

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  • Wordless @[email protected]Lemmy · Sep 30, 2023

    Artemis Fowl, Ella Enchanted, Inkheart. I loved these books as a kid, but none of the movies were good adaptations.

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  • Iximaz 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @iximaz.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2026

    reading Inkheart to the husband for the first time and being upset again that the movie made Dustfinger far too pretty

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  • Sass Everett @sasseverett.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2025

    name: Sass (or Sassy) current read: Le Morte D'Arthur (almost done!) last show: Revival last film: Kpop Demon Hunters fav book this year: Inkheart (reread) fav watch this year: When Destiny Brings the Demon + something spooky:

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  • Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr Podcast @hkhspod.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 3, 2025

    Thanks to listener requests, @brennacgray.bsky.social and @joelipsett.bsky.social dig into Cornelia Funke's INKHEART and its 2008 film adaptation starring Brendan Fraser. It's...not what we expected. In addition to less driving, Joe wanted more fantasy, while Brenna wanted more famous characters.

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  • It's Lilly Time @lillybee.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 8, 2025

    "Bad aptations of books Lilly read in middle school" movie night is done! Stormbreaker wasn't great, but better than I expected. Inkheart was *almost* there, but I think tried to do too much. And Artemis Fowl sucked in more ways than I thought possible.

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  • kratoz29 @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 31, 2023

    I like the premise, although it is not the best experience for extended sessions I think, the ones that come on top of my mind are: * Hotel Dusk and its sequel, I'm actually gonna replay Last Window again because I forgot almost everything about the plot lol. * Ninja Gaiden, I enjoyed it a lot, maybe I have finished it three times or so, I can see die hard fans of Ninja Gaiden not being fans of this title for obvious reasons. * Inkheart, I played it many moons ago, and even when it was a…

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  • Do You Validate @doyouvalidate.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 10, 2026

    🍿Join us for another #DoYouValidate movie club night!🎬 THURSDAY at 9pm ET, watch INKHEART (2008) with us and make all your storybook wishes come true📚✨ Not a member of the DYV Discord server? Come join the fun: discord.gg/bJBJNUNje7

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  • Blue Wave Alxs 🌸🏳️‍⚧️📚🍥✨ @bluewavealxs.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2026

    Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is actually such a good movie — I can’t believe I didn’t watch it sooner. It’s a bit dated and kind of reminds me of Inkheart. Definitely a must-watch.

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  • Raina🐁🏴‍☠️🍁VA/Streamer @rainathemouse.comBluesky · Sep 5, 2025

    I volunteer if you ever wanna talk about the InkHeart movie.

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  • People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2025

    Also Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke. Has a film adaptation no less

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  • Nerdic | buy my novel (fantasy/comedy) | #TDST ⚡ @nerdictranslator.comBluesky · May 17, 2025

    The most relatable movie villain isn't who you think. Unless you think it's that guy from Inkheart(?) who comes to the real/our world and is like, "Duct tape! I LOVE duct tape!" Because it's totally him.

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  • Soon To Be A Major Motion Podcast @soonmajorpod.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2025

    Happy Thursday! Celebrate with a brand new episode on the 2008 film Inkheart! open.spotify.com/episode/5qyN...

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  • mediogre @devilslattice.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2025

    Someone tell somebody that we need shows based on these book series: -Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children -Inkheart -The Saga of Darren Shan There has been a movie of each of them already but they were all awful. So much potential 🙌

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  • Ro 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 WeeCon2 @ramsaybaggins.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 18, 2025

    Probably Inkheart (can't quite make it work) or the Lost City of D which is just such a fun movie 😂

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  • Sean A. Morgan @memphisbelle1114.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 31, 2025

    You won't regret it. I discovered Cornelia through the Brendan Fraser movie Inkheart and read the Inkheart series as an adult. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

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  • Aurora, all too Aurora @auroragirl.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2024

    Inkheart was a forgettable film even for fans of Brendan Fraser, but for two things: 1) Andy Serkis as a villain without a stupid voice 2) it’s my first official screen credit 😊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UvK...

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  • Louise @[email protected]Lemmy · Aug 1, 2023

    I knew there was a horrific-looking movie for Inkheart and I was a fan of the original book, but I didn't know there was a game adaptation of the film adaptation. Wild!

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  • overlordette @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 15, 2023

    Yeah, definitely not Inkheart. That book/movie was about being stuck in/out of books, not drawings.

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  • Cthulouw @cthulouw.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2026

    Got reminded yesterday that Inkheart is a film that exists, and while I know it wasn't the best thing ever made I do remember it giving me warm & fuzzy feelings It has a stellar cast, as well, hot damn

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  • bryanie-ghoul.bsky.social @bryanie-ghoul.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2026

    It's all The Mummy this and The Mummy that (understandably). But Inkheart is such a slept on Brendan Fraser film

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  • 🔪❤️‍🔥Tyler2025Edition🔪❤️‍🩹 @tylertigz.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2026

    My first YA review podcast episode featuring @horrorqueers.bsky.social only @joelipsett.bsky.social Chose “InkHeart” as my first Loved this book and hated the movie Let’s see what they think shall we?

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  • 🍎Eleni Argyrò trying her best @eleni-argyro.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2026

    Yeah like remember Inkheart? Very different from the book I’d read before seeing the movie and yet I loved it!

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2025

    The (movie) Inkheart 1080p (iTunes)(US) $4.99 (Family) (iMDB) 5.8 Cast: Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett

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  • Pseud O’Nym ♨️ @pseud0nym.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2025

    Haven’t read the books, but the Inkheart movie is one of my favorite movies. I love stories about meta-stories, where characters in the story interact with stories within their story. Yes, I love Last Action Hero, why do you ask?

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  • Christina R. @witchystitchcraftr.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 28, 2025

    Ooo the Mothman one sounds like a great pick!! Also, love the book collection; I see Inkheart!! That was such a great read and film!! 📚🤩

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  • R Holmes (he/him) @existasresistance.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2025

    Have you seen him in Inkheart? Its surprisingly lesser known movie but one of my favorites, I was a big fan of Funke's original trilogy, and I wanted to make a movie on it (when I was a kid I wanted to be a film writer/director). Huh, I thought it was a common interpretation that Stan was about

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  • 💕༺ℬ𝓊𝓃𝓃𝒾𝒾༻💖 ($346/700) 𖦹ᵗⁱᵖ ᵘʳ ʰᵒᵗᵗⁱᵉˢ𖦹 ❤︎︎ @bunniiboi.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 5, 2025

    Spell your name using movie titles and tag some mutuals 🥰 Breakfast Club Underworld Night at the Museum Neverending Story Inkheart Inglourious Basterds @foxfilth.bsky.social @s34ns4v4g3.bsky.social @sweetbee.vip

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  • KT @ocarinia.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2025

    IT IS!!! I love it so so so much Inkheart also gives me the same charm! And I have other movie recommendations if you ever have the itch!

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  • 🍒 @lalarchvs.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2025

    My favorite book series from when I was a kid is Inkheart. This man done bought me the movie and said he’s looking for the book set for Valentines Day 🥺 my inner child is screaming

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  • Van 🌸 @birbvan.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 28, 2024

    5 - Inkheart Ah yes, my first contact with an adaptation of a book that I loved and said 'man this movie sucks'. Please read the trilogy instead also, I may be one of the few people in the planet that liked the endgame pair lol

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  • myedison.bsky.social @myedison.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2024

    An early work out, then rested and made a chicken dinner, and now a movie, called Inkheart, I think.

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  • ladyettejin.bsky.social @ladyettejin.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 22, 2024

    Inkheart was a pretty fun book, and it made a pretty fun movie. One thing I’ll forever be grateful for is the “Shirtless Dustfinger Juggles Fire” scene. My teenage self just about needed to fetch the smelling salts, goodness me. (Paul Bettany is so HANDSOME in this one omg.)

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  • Abbys⚔️Book World 📚🐉 @abbysbookworld.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 21, 2024

    Inkheart was childhood and I love the film too. Yes, The colour of revenge came out last year and takes place 5 years later.

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  • Abbys⚔️Book World 📚🐉 @abbysbookworld.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 19, 2024

    I almost put Inkheart up today ... This was childhood I also adore the film 🥹

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  • Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 22, 2024

    Not seeing any love for Inkheart but I still love that movie.

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  • Mister Orange @misterorange21.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2026

    📽️ EVERY NIGHT IS MOVIE NIGHT 🍿 (246/365) #NowShowing INKHEART (2008) I had completely forgotten about this movie, but it’s the wife’s pick for family night. 🧡🤘 #FilmSky

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  • sarahhhh @trippytoasters.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    Inkheart was a very mid movie in general but I often think about Jim Broadbent's character who wrote the in-universe book and is a sad lonely old man and at the end of the movie gets sent to live forever in the book he wrote and man that is the realest shit ever

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  • sarahhhh @trippytoasters.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    Randomly remembered catching a hallmark movie about a girl being isekai'd into a Jane Austen novel and she is played by the girl from the movie version of Inkheart which is about book characters being reverse-isekai'd into the real world and man what a weird instance of typecasting

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  • Sketch @sketchni.ukBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    Watching a film called Inkheart. It's just the right amount of silly, serious and fantasy that I love. 4/5 stars

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  • Solitary Lights in an Empty City🔆 @brettiko.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2026

    There's a book trilogy called the Inkheart collection (first one was made into a movie) and I can't stop giggling because the third one is called Inkdeath and it reminds me to much of twink death

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  • EccentricChimera (Fully Active...Kinda) @eccentricnoodle.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 28, 2026

    I hear they are! I've read the books multiple times, but I never got around to watching the complete movie series. Easily one of my favorite book series next to Inkheart.

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  • Richard aka Master Trowa 🇨🇦 @mastertrowa.bolasgang.comBluesky · Mar 17, 2026

    365 Days of Films Day 360 Inkheart 2008 Just like every good 80's child I am a Brendan Fraser fan and while this movie may not have extremely high ratings it is a heck of a lot of fun and worth and watch and a rewatch every few years. #filmsky #movies #moviesky

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  • Greg B @hokiegb.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 9, 2026

    It should not be difficult for me to decide I don't like a book that much and put it down... But it is so hard! I started the Inkheart series (mostly because Brendan Fraser stars in the movie) and it is good, but it just isn't grabbing me. I think this series will be a DNF. #booksky

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  • Movies • TV Shows & Physical Bluray Media 🍿 @movies-on-sale.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2026

    The (movie) Inkheart 1080p (Prime)(US) $4.99 (Family) (iMDB) 5.8 Cast: Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis, Eliza Bennett

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  • Curt Johnson - Indie Genius @indiegeniusMastodon · Dec 25, 2025

    Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieFeatures #BrendanFraser #Inkheart 18 Years Ago, Brendan Fraser and an All-Star Cast Failed to Kickstart a Fantasy Franchise — but It's Worth a Second Look http://dlvr.it/TQ1477

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  • jennys1989.bsky.social @jennys1989.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2025

    Anything by Jonathan Stroud (especially Bartimaeus) or Cornelia Funke (especially Inkheart - also the greatest book -> film adaptation ever)

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  • Drake Rhapsody @drakerhapsody.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2025

    4. Dustfinger from Inkheart (the book, although the one in the movie was 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 Talk about a childhood crush...

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  • ReptileHand @reptilehand.pikaparty.socialBluesky · Jul 8, 2025

    grading is a scam for a niche market. You should just crack the seal and enjoy Inkheart for the Nintendo DS, based on the movie based on the novel

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  • Levent Mollamustafaoglu @leventmolla.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2025

    More films reviewed: Righteous Kill, Inkheart, Body of Lies and Gemini man, all films I liked. #righteouskill #inkheart #bodyoflies #geminiman open.substack.com/pub/leventsk...

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  • 𝖐𝖊𝖓𝖟𝖎 🍄 @kenziskingdom.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2025

    I love the Inkheart series so much and the movie makes me irrationally angry. it's ONLY redeeming quality is Brenden Fraser and NOTHING else

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