In 1940, four siblings leave wartime London to stay at an old professor's house. Lucy finds Narnia at the back of a wardrobe, a land where the White Witch keeps it always winter and never Christmas. Edmund, won over by sweets and promises, betrays the others. Aslan the lion returns, and the winter starts to melt. To save Edmund, Aslan gives himself up and is killed on the Stone Table, but he comes back to life the next morning. He frees the creatures turned to stone and kills the Witch in battle. The four are crowned at Cair Paravel. Years later, grown up, they chase a white stag past the lamppost and tumble out of the wardrobe as children again, on the same day they left.
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ChangeThe whole battle on screen
In the book, the final battle is only seen once Aslan arrives with Susan, Lucy and the reinforcements. Director Andrew Adamson remembered a huge battle from his childhood reading and put all of it on screen.
In the book, the four hide in the wardrobe to dodge the housekeeper, who is showing visitors around. In the film, they break a window playing cricket and run in to escape the scolding. The 1988 BBC series kept the house tour.
The film opens with an air raid on London during World War II, before the trip to the professor's house. The book gives it one line: the children were sent away from London because of the air raids.
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