Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling’s popular children’s novels about Harry Potter, a boy who on his eleventh birthday discovers that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses unique magical powers. He is called back from his life as an unwanted child to become a student at Hogwarts, an English boarding school for wizards. There he meets several friends who become his closest allies and help him uncover the truth about his parents’ mysterious deaths.