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Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and four-time Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award Best Picture winner Chicago. Marshall was born in Madison, Wisconsin and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He debuted in the film industry with the Emmy Award-wining TV adaptation of the musical Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. After that he went on to direct the much anticipated adaptation of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago in 2002 for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. His next feature film was the drama Memoirs of a Geisha based on the best-selling book of the same name by Arthur Golden starring Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh and Ken Watanabe. The film went on to win three Academy Awards and gross $162,242,962 at the worldwide box office. In 2009, Marshall directed Nine, an adaptation of the hit Broadway production with the same name starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren and Penélope Cruz, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Marshall then went on to direct Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth chapter of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean film series starring Johnny Depp, Ian McShane, Penélope Cruz and Geoffrey Rush, which is set to open on May 20, 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Marshall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Flowers are reviled and despised in the land of the trolls. An ugly but unconventionally-friendly troll lives in the kingdom and, with his magical abilities, grows one flower too many for the Queen of the land, Gnorga, whose laws require all trolls to act mean and to scare outsiders whenever possible, lest they be turned to stone. As a punishment with convincing, he is intended to be exiled to a world devoid of plants, where he should live a life of proper trolldom, the Queen mistakenly and unknowingly sending him to Central Park in New York, where he feels right at home with the lush plant life all around. It is there that he creates a few friends of his, each of them flowers, though he longs for some genuine and organic friendship. One day, a young brother and sister are out in the park, their relationship broken, with the Brother, Gus, a brat who is often distant and focusing on technology and having grown up too fast, while Rosie, the sister, wants a simple connection with her brother. By luck, they happen upon the friendly Troll's home under the bridge, befriends the two. But, when the wicked Queen and her cautious King Llort see that Stanley is not where she intended to place him, she tries everything in her power to do away with him, before eventually deciding to deal with him herself, tearing Central Park to pieces and endangering all within it. Only Stanley and his friends can stop the madness.
