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The Portable Door (2023)

The Portable Door poster
Directed by
Jeffrey Walker
Genre
fantasy film, comedy film, adventure film
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 56m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 277 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young intern starts working at a strange company where the employees use magic. He discovers that the office has secrets involving sorcerers and mysterious doors.

whimsicallightheartedquirkyfast-pacedplayfulmysteriousadventurous

What happens

The Portable Door is a 2023 Australian fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Jeffrey Walker and starring Patrick Gibson, Sophie Wilde, Sam Neill, and Christoph Waltz. The screenplay by Leon Ford is based on the 2003 novel of the same name, the first in Tom Holt's J. W. Wells & Co. series about the firm of "family sorcerers" introduced in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer. A co-production between The Jim Henson Company and Story Bridge Films, the film was released theatrically in Australia on 23 March 2023 by Madman Entertainment, before streaming on Stan from 7 April 2023. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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