The hero boy applies the brakes and the engine on the train screeches to a halt. After the driver, Steamer, and his aide, Smokey, replace the light, Steamer witnesses something unusual ahead and orders the train to be stopped. Before reaching Flat Top Tunnel, the boy jumps into the engine's coal tender and finds the girl is controlling the train. Desperate to find the girl, the hobo helps the boy by skiing down the rooftops. Losing the girl and conductor, the boy meets a hobo, who claims he is the owner of the train and King of North Pole. The hero boy locates the lost ticket and pursues them. The girl explains her lost ticket, and the conductor considers ejecting her before taking her for a walk on the top of the train instead. After the ticket is abused by the wind and animals, it slips back in the train.
The girl and conductor deliver the hot chocolate cup to Billy until the hero boy discovers the girl’s ticket is unpunched. The conductor summons a waiter team, who give the children hot chocolate, and the girl stows away one cup under her seat to give to Billy, who is alone in the observation car. Billy initially declines to board but changes his mind. When the train picks up Billy, the hero boy applies the emergency brakes. The boy meets other children, including a girl and a know-it-all kid. When the boy examines the engine, the conductor lets him board the train. On Christmas Eve, a boy witnesses a train called the Polar Express that is about to depart for the North Pole. The film also marks Michael Jeter's last acting role before his death, and the film was dedicated to his memory. This is Castle Rock Entertainment's first animated film. The Polar Express is listed in the Guinness World Book of Records in 2006 as the first all-digital capture film. The studio first released the film in both conventional and IMAX 3D theaters November 10, 2004. The film was made at a budget of $165 million, a record breaking sum for an animated feature at the time. The visual effects and performance capture were done at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Castle Rock Entertainment produced the film in association with Shangri-La Entertainment, ImageMovers, Playtone and Golden Mean, for Warner Bros.
The film also included a performance by Tinashe at age 9, who later gained exposure as a pop singer in 2010, as the CGI-model for the female protagonist.
The film stars Daryl Sabara, Nona Gaye, Jimmy Bennett, and Eddie Deezen, with Tom Hanks in six distinct roles. Written, produced, and directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film features human characters animated using the live action performance capture technique. The Polar Express is a 2004 American computer animated musical fantasy film based on the 1985 children's book of the same title by Chris Van Allsburg.
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