Directed by Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli • 2015 • France, Belgium
Starring Jared Padalecki, Vincent D’Onofrio, Melissa Disney
This animated noir caper is a stylish, heart-thumping adventure that prowls the shadowy streets and alleyways of New York and swoops and soars above the greatest skyline in the world. Leo has a secret. A mysterious illness has transformed him into a phantom boy, able to leave the confines of his body and explore the city as a ghostly apparition. While in the hospital, he befriends Alex, a cop injured while attempting to capture a nefarious gangster who has taken control of the city’s power supply. Now they must form an extraordinary duo, using Leo’s phantom powers and Alex’s detective work to foil the plot and save New York from destruction.
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