On his birthday, a young boy receives two gifts. One is a small plastic toy of an Indian man, and the other is a cupboard. But when these two items meet, something amazing happens. Puppeteer Frank Oz ('HouseSitter'; 'What About Bob?') directs from the screenplay by Melissa Mathison ('The Black Stallion'; 'E.T.'); Based upon the novel by Lynn Reid Banks ('The L-Shaped Room'). Produced by Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall and Jane Startz. A co-presentation between Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures from The Kennedy/Marshall Company and Scholastic Productions.