Babes in Toyland (1986 film)

Infobox Film
name = Babes in Toyland


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director = Clive Donner
producer = Tony Ford
Neil T. Maffeo
writer = Glen MacDonough
Paul Zindel
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starring = Drew Barrymore
Keanu Reeves
music = Leslie Bricusse
cinematography = Arthur Ibbetson
editing = David Saxon
distributor = Orion Pictures for NBC
released = 1986
runtime = 140 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget =
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amg_id = 1:3543
imdb_id = 0090683

"Babes in Toyland" is a 1986 television movie directed by Clive Donner which stars Drew Barrymore and Keanu Reeves. It was broadcast on NBC on December 19, 1986 and released on VHS. The European theatrical version was shortened to 94 minutes--this version was released worldwide on VHS, it has not yet been released on DVD.

Plot

Lisa Piper (Barrymore), eleven years old, takes care of her siblings and cooks for her family. She has no time for toys. During a blizzard on Christmas Eve, Lisa is transported to Toyland. She arrives just before Mary Contrary (Jill Schoelen) is wedded to the unpleasant Barnaby Barnacle (Richard Mulligan), although Mary loves Jack Nimble (Reeves). Lisa stops the wedding and, with her new friends, finds out that Barnaby plans to take over Toyland. Lisa, Mary, Jack, and Georgie Porgie (Googy Gress) go to the kindly Toymaster (Pat Morita) for help, but he can only help them if Lisa really believes in toys.

Lisa reveals that she kept her teddy bear. When Barnaby unleashes his army of boogeymen upon Toyland, the Toymaster creates life-sized toy soldiers to drive Barnaby's minions to the gates of Toyland. Barnaby, having no control of his creatures, is then banished from Toyland after trying to make Lisa his new Troller. Jack and Mary are then married. Lisa is taken back home by the Toymaster in a sleigh with wooden reindeer, across the Milky Way until she wakes up at home as though it had all been a dream.

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*imdb title | id=0090683 | title=Babes in Toyland