Synopsis
A nine-year-old boy gets a plastic Indian and a cupboard for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life and befriends him.
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Cast
- Hal ScardinoOmri
- LitefootLittle Bear
- Lindsay CrouseJane
- Richard JenkinsVictor
- Rishi BhatPatrick
- Steve CooganTommy
- David KeithBoone
- Sakina JaffreyLucy
- Vincent KartheiserGillon
- Nestor SerranoTeacher
Recommendations
- 88
ReelViews
The movie teaches lessons without preaching, and focuses on the magic of relationships rather than that of special effects. This leads to a production as affecting for adults as for children. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Genuinely charming, this children's fantasy is the perfect antidote to Pokemon mania: Younger kids should be entranced, while their older brothers and sisters may just pick up on its gentle critique of a movie culture in which action figures and tie-in toys are all-important. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Like many of the classic works for children, it is finally about the rough passage to adulthood, and Hal Scardino's ability to convey that change is another reason why even in a year of wonders for children this quiet film still manages to impress. - 70
Time Out
Fine enlarged production design and effects, and appealing acting from the little and the large. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Surprisingly well-done nearly all the way around, this neither plays down to its target audience, nor fumbles the inherent childhood fantasy of the story. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie unleashes all sorts of considerations it doesn’t really deal with, and the material edges closer to horror than it probably intends. - 50
Variety
Indian in the Cupboard is yet another example that Hollywood can make movies in which critics of sex and violence can find nothing to complain about. It’s also a reminder that family values can be, well, kind of boring. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
The Indian in the Cupboard is such a sweet film, and so lacking in the bloodthirstiness and violence that parents dread in children's films, that its mere existence seems worthy of praise. Too bad, then, that it turned out so dull and lifeless.
