Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 02/23/07 Home Video Not Available MPAA Rating Rated PG for some thematic elements, mild peril and language Running Time 1 hour 30 minutes Genre Family, Sci-Fi Director Bob Shaye Writer Bruce Joel Rubin, Toby Emmerich Cast Timothy Hutton, Joely Richardson, Rainn Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Chris O'Neil Studio New Line Cinema |
THE LAST MIMZY
SYNOPSIS
Based on the acclaimed sci-fi short story by Lewis
Padgett, "The Last Mimzy" tells the story of two
children who discover a mysterious box that
contains some strange devices they think are toys.
As the children play with these "toys," they begin to
display higher and higher intelligence levels. Their
teacher tells their parents that they seem to have
grown beyond genius. Their parents, too, realize
something extraordinary is happening. Emma, the
younger of the two, tells her confused mother that
one of the toys, a beat-up stuffed toy rabbit, is
named Mimzy and that "she teaches me things."
As Emma's mom becomes increasingly concerned,
a blackout shuts down the city and the government
traces the source of the power surge to Emma's
family's house. Things quickly spin wildly out of their
control. The children are focused on these strange
objects, Mimzy, and the important mission on which
they seem to have been sent. When the little girl
says that Mimzy contains a most serious message
from the future, a scientific scan shows that Mimzy
is part extremely high level electronic, and part
organic! Everyone realizes that they are involved in
something incredible...but exactly what?
"The Last Mimzy" is based on the 1943 short story
"Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett (a
pseudonym for Henry Kuttner and his wife, C. L.
Moore).
Based on the acclaimed sci-fi short story by Lewis
Padgett, "The Last Mimzy" tells the story of two
children who discover a mysterious box that
contains some strange devices they think are toys.
As the children play with these "toys," they begin to
display higher and higher intelligence levels. Their
teacher tells their parents that they seem to have
grown beyond genius. Their parents, too, realize
something extraordinary is happening. Emma, the
younger of the two, tells her confused mother that
one of the toys, a beat-up stuffed toy rabbit, is
named Mimzy and that "she teaches me things."
As Emma's mom becomes increasingly concerned,
a blackout shuts down the city and the government
traces the source of the power surge to Emma's
family's house. Things quickly spin wildly out of their
control. The children are focused on these strange
objects, Mimzy, and the important mission on which
they seem to have been sent. When the little girl
says that Mimzy contains a most serious message
from the future, a scientific scan shows that Mimzy
is part extremely high level electronic, and part
organic! Everyone realizes that they are involved in
something incredible...but exactly what?
"The Last Mimzy" is based on the 1943 short story
"Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett (a
pseudonym for Henry Kuttner and his wife, C. L.
Moore).
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