The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)

Director:

Frank Oz

Writers (WGA):

Lynne Reid Banks (novel)
Melissa Mathison (screenplay)

Release Date:

14 July 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Adventure | Fantasy

Tagline:

Adventure comes to life

Plot:

On his ninth birthday a boy receives many presents. Two of them first seem to be less important: an...

Plot Keywords:

Magic | Indian | Birthday | Cupboard | Best Friend

Awards:

6 nominations

Cast

Hal Scardino	...	Omri
Litefoot	...	Little Bear
Lindsay Crouse	...	Jane
Richard Jenkins	...	Victor
Rishi Bhat	...	Patrick
Steve Coogan	...	Tommy Atkins (British medic)
David Keith	...	Boo-hoo Boone
Sakina Jaffrey	...	Lucy
Vincent Kartheiser	...	Gillon
Nestor Serrano	...	Teacher
Ryan Olson	...	Adiel
Leon Tejwani	...	Baby Martin
Lucas Tejwani	...	Baby Martin
Christopher Conte	...	Purple Mohawk
Cassandra Brown	...	Emily (girl in Omri's class)

MPAA:

Rated PG for mild language and brief video images of violence and sexy dancing.

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Australia:PG | Iceland:L | South Korea:All | Philippines:G | New Zealand:G | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | Finland:S | Germany:o.Al. | Portugal:M/6 | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | UK:PG | USA:PG | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Lynne Reid Banks wrote her original novel as a bedtime story for her son, Omri.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In the hallway of the school, Omri and Patrick are arguing because Patrick is trying to show Little Bear and Boone to some classmates. Patrick is against the wall as Omri yells at him. Note the goof when the young actor playing Patrick mouths much of Omri's dialogue in anticipation of his own lines.

Quotes:

Little Bear: [Before pulling the arrow out of Boone] Blood will flow. Get me husks!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Will Ferrell/Queens of the Stone Age (#30.19)" (2005)

entertaining fantasy

Omri (Hal Scardino), a young boy growing up in Brooklyn, receives an odd variety of presents for his birthday, a wooden cabinet from his older brother, a set of antique keys from his mother Jane (Linsday Crouse), and a tiny plastic model of an Indian from his best friend Patrick (Rishi Bhat). Putting them all together, Omri locks the Indian inside the cabinet, only to be awoken by a strange sound in the middle of the night. Omri opens the cabinet to discover that the tiny Indian has come to life; it seems that he's called Little Bear (Litefoot), and he claims to have learned English from settlers in 1761. Omri hides this remarkable discovery from his mother but shares it with Patrick; as an experiment, Patrick locks a toy cowboy into the cupboard, and soon Little Bear has a companion, Boone (David Keith), though predictably, the cowboy and the Indian don't get along well at first. Omri comes to the realizations that his living and breathing playthings are also people with lives of their own, and he begins to wonder how much control he should really have over their lives. I liked this movie it was well done, good story, and good acting. Indian In The Cupboard should keep the kids and adults entertained, overall a good film.