• Rating:
• Genre: Children's/Family
• Movie Type: Family-Oriented Adventure
• Themes: Daring Rescues, Experiments Gone Awry
• Director: Bob Clark
• Main Cast: Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, Dom DeLuise, Ruby Dee
• Release Year: 1999
• Country: US
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• MPAA Rating: PG

Plot

Dr. Elena Kinder (Kathleen Turner) is the highly visible chief executive of BABYCO, the world's largest manufacturer of baby products. The company funds orphanages across the world and just opened an indoor theme park for children adjacent to its corporate headquarters in Los Angeles. Unbeknownst to the public, Kinder, with the help of Dr. Heep (Christopher Lloyd), has been conducting a vast research program devoted to decrypting in secret labs deep beneath BABYCO's corporate campus the language that babies speak. It's said that Tibetans believe all babies are born with complete knowledge of the universe and the ability to speak to each other in an ancient language. However, once infants turn two years old, they lose this knowledge as they bond more closely with adults. To study this theory, Dr. Kinder has culled the smartest babies from her orphanages to be raised in a special development program in her private lab. As a test of developmental progress, she has separated a pair of twins, Sly and Witt. While Sly is raised within the lab, Witt has been adopted by Kinder's niece, Robin Bobbins (Kim Cattrall) and her husband Dan (Peter MacNicol), who run an old-fashioned day care and child research center. Sly manages to escape the center and finds his way to a shopping mall during Christmas. While eluding Kinder's henchmen, Sly stumbles across Witt; Witt is promptly mistaken for Sly and taken away, while Sly goes to the day care center with his new mother. The two boys, who develop an empathic link, must find each other and free the children from the research center before Dr. Kinder can smuggle them out of the country. ~ Ron Wells, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Kathleen Turner - ELena Kinder
• Christopher Lloyd - Heep
• Kim Cattrall - Robin
• Peter MacNicol - Dan
• Dom DeLuise - Lenny
• Ruby Dee - Margo

Kyle Howard - Dickie; Leo Fitzgerald - Sly; Leo Fitzgerald - Whit; Myles Fitzgerald - Sly; Myles Fitzgerald - Whit; Gerry Fitzgerald - Sly; Gerry Fitzgerald - Whit; Joshua Ryan Evans - Baby Dance Double

Credit

Bob Clark - Director; Bob Clark - Screenwriter; Stan Cole - Editor; Stephen M. Katz - Cinematographer; Dorothy Koster-Paul - Casting; Betty Pecha Madden - Costume Designer; Hank Paul - Executive Producer; Steven Paul - Producer; Frank Pezza - Production Designer; David Saunders - Executive Producer; Jon Voight - Executive Producer; Paul Zaza - Composer (Music Score); Robert Zilliox - Set Designer; Bruce Nyznik - Sound/Sound Designer; Robert Grasmere - Short Story Author; Francisca Matos - Short Story Author; Greg Michael - Screenwriter; Ken Goch - Art Director; Josh Newman - Set Designer; Michael Roth - Art Director; Jacques Stroweis - Visual Effects Supervisor

Similar Movies

Adventures in Babysitting; Look Who's Talking; Look Who's Talking, Too; Mr. Mom; Three Men and a Baby; Finders Keepers; The Parent Trap; The Rugrats Movie; Rugrats [Animated TV Series]; Singing Babies: Nursery Rhymes Time; Son of the Mask

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