Babes in Toyland (1986 film)

Babes in Toyland is a 1986 television film directed by Clive Donner which stars Drew Barrymore, Richard Mulligan, and Keanu Reeves. The film is based on the operetta of the same title by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough. This version features a new score by Leslie Bricusse along with select portions of Herberts score. It was filmed on location in Munich, West Germany in the summer of 1986.

Lisa Piper Drew Barrymore, an elevenyearold girl from Cincinnati, Ohio, takes care of her siblings and cooks for her family. She has no time for toys, and refuses to be treated as a child. During a blizzard on Christmas Eve, Lisa is transported to Toyland. She arrives just before Mary Contrary Jill Schoelen is to be wedded to the unpleasant Barnaby Barnacle Richard Mulligan, although Mary loves Barnabys nephew, Jack Nimble Keanu Reeves. Lisa stops the wedding and, with her new friends, finds out that Barnaby plans to take over Toyland. Lisa, Mary, Jack, and Georgie Porgie Googy Gress go to the kindly Toymaster Pat Morita for help, but he can only help them if Lisa really believes in toys. Barnaby confronts them and the Toymaster, finally showing his true colors, and steals a flask containing distilled evil that the Toymaster had been collecting, before leaving Lisa and company to be eaten by Trollog, a vulturelike monster with a single enchanted eye that Barnaby uses to spy on his enemies. They escape by blinding Trollog with paint and locking him in a chest, but are captured and imprisoned one by one in Barnabys hidden fortress.Barnaby reveals that he had been creating an army of trolls to take over Toyland, and then attempts to corrupt his captives into being his servants with the contents of the flask, stating he would replace Trollog with Lisa and make Mary his Troll Princess. Lisa, however, proves to be immune to the evil, and manages to reverse the effects on her friends. After escaping from Barnabys stronghold, they return to the Toymaster. When Barnaby unleashes his army of trolls upon Toyland, Lisas newfound belief animates an army of lifesized toy soldiers that the Toymaster had created, and they drive Barnaby into the Forest of the Night. Barnaby, having lost control of his creatures and having failed at making Lisa his new Trollog, is then banished from Toyland. Jack and Mary are then married. Lisa is taken home by the Toymaster who is revealed to be S

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