Assuming that she will be thrown off the train, the boys finds the ticket and traverses the rooftops to find the girl. After the girl discovers that her ticket is missing, the conductor leaves with her. In doing so, the wind blows the ticket out into the wilderness, but it soon finds its way back to the train. When the conductor and the girl go to give Billy his cup, the boy notices that the girl's ticket has not yet been validated and tries to return it to her. The children are then served hot chocolate by a platoon of dancing waiters, and the girl saves a cup for Billy. The boy applies the emergency brake and Billy is allowed on, but he has to sit alone in the observation car. The train then stops to pick up a boy named Billy, who initially declines to board, but changes his mind as the train is leaving. The conductor says the train is traveling to the North Pole, and the boy, although reluctant at first, climbs aboard and meets a spirited girl and a know-it-all boy.

On the night of Christmas Eve 1958, a passenger train known as the Polar Express stops at the house of a boy who is growing skeptical about the existence of Santa Claus. The film also marks Michael Jeter's last acting role before his death, and the film was thus dedicated to his memory.

The film was later listed in the 2006 Guinness World Records as the first all-digital capture film. However, later re-releases helped propel the film's gross to $314 million worldwide. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, but originally was a box-office bomb, grossing $286 million against a record-breaking $165–170 million budget, the biggest sum for an animated feature at the time. The Polar Express was released in the Chicago International Film Festival on Octoand the United States on November 10, 2004, by Warner Bros. The boy joins several other children as they embark on a journey to visit Santa Claus preparing for Christmas. It tells the story of a young boy who, on Christmas Eve, sees a mysterious train bound for the North Pole stop outside his window and is invited aboard by its conductor.

The film features human characters animated using live-action and motion-capture computer animation. It stars Tom Hanks in multiple distinct roles, with Daryl Sabara, Nona Gaye, Jimmy Bennett, and Eddie Deezen in supporting roles. The Polar Express is a 2004 American computer-animated Christmas fantasy adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with William Broyles Jr., based on the 1985 children's picture book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg.

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