Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 film adaptation of the

1964 book of the same name by Roald Dahl. Directed by Tim Burton,
the film stars Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Johnny Depp as
Willy Wonka. The storyline concerns a young boy (Highmore) winning a
tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by
an eccentric candy maker (Johnny Depp).
Development for another adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory began in 1991, which resulted in Warner Bros. providing the
Dahl estate with total artistic control. Prior to Burton's involvement,
directors such as Gary Ross, Rob Minkoff, Martin Scorsese and Tom
Shadyac had been involved, while Warner Bros. either considered or
discussed the role of Willy Wonka with Nicolas Cage and Jim Carrey.
Burton immediately brought regular collaborators Johnny Depp and
Danny Elfman aboard. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory represents
the first time since The Nightmare Before Christmas that Elfman
contributed to the film score using written songs and his vocals. Filming
lasted from June to December 2004 at Pinewood Studios in England,
where Burton avoided using digital effects as much as possible. Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory was released to critical praise and was a box
office success, grossing approximately $475 million worldwide.

Charlie Bucket is a poor boy who lives near the Wonka Candy
Company. He lives with his mother, his father (who works in a
toothpaste factory), and his four bedridden grandparents in the same
town as the famous factory of the Wonka Candy Company. The
company's owner, Willy Wonka, has for long closed access to his
factory due to problems concerning industrial espionage that ultimately
led him to fire all his employees, among them Charlie's Grandpa Joe.
One day, Wonka informs the world of a contest, in which five Golden
Tickets have been placed in five random Wonka Bars worldwide, and
the winners will be given a full tour of the factory as well as a lifetime
supply of chocolate, while one ticket holder will be given a special prize
at the end of the tour.
Wonka's sales subsequently skyrocket, and the first four tickets are
found fairly quickly. The recipients are Augustus Gloop, a gluttonous
German boy; Veruca Salt, a very spoiled English girl; Violet
Beauregarde, a competitive American gum chewer, gymnast and karate
champion, and Mike Teavee, an arrogant television and video game
addict. Charlie tries twice to find a ticket, but both bars come empty.
After overhearing that the final ticket was found in Russia, Charlie finds
a ten-dollar note, and purchases a Wonka Bar at the local candy store.
At the exact moment it is revealed that the Russian ticket was forged,
Charlie discovers the real fifth ticket inside the wrapper. Although two
other customers offer to buy it from him, Charlie runs home to tell his
family and decides to bring Grandpa Joe to accompany him on the
factory tour.
Charlie and the other ticket holders are greeted by Wonka outside the
factory, who then leads them into the facility. During the tour, each of
the bad children disobey Wonka's orders after being tempted by
something related to their individual character flaws, and suffer various
consequences: Augustus is sucked up a chocolate extraction pipe after
falling into a chocolate river from which he was drinking, Violet is turned
into an oversized blueberry after chewing unstable three-course-meal
gum, Veruca and her father are pushed into a garbage chute by worker
squirrels after Veruca tried to take one as a pet, and Mike is shrunk with
a teleporter that he uses on himself. Wonka's employees, the Oompa-
Loompas, sing a song of morality after each elimination. The children
later leave the factory with an exaggerated characteristic or deformity
related to their demise – Augustus covered in chocolate, Violet blue-
colored and flexible, Veruca and her father covered in garbage and
Mike overstretched.
Wonka then invites Charlie to come live and work in the factory with
him, and reveals that the purpose of the Golden Tickets and the tour
was to make the "least rotten" child the heir of the factory itself. The
only catch is that Charlie must leave his family behind, because Wonka
believes family is a hindrance while a chocolatier needed creative
freedom – a philosophy Wonka developed due to his dentist father, Dr.
Wilbur Wonka, denying his son candy because of the potential risk to
his teeth. After sneaking over a piece of candy, Wonka was instantly
hooked, and ran away to follow his dreams.
As his family is the most important thing in his life, Charlie refuses
Wonka's offer. Charlie and his family are living contently a while later,
however Wonka is too depressed to make candy the way he used to,
and turns to Charlie for advice. Charlie decides to help Wonka confront
and reconcile with his estranged father; Wonka finally realizes the value
of family, while his father learns to accept his son for who he is, and not
what he does. In the end, Charlie has the chocolate factory, and Wonka
has patched up with his family.