Here, the Mimzy in question is an innocuous-looking, well-traveled toy bunny found among mysterious items in a box that turns up floating behind the Wilder family waterfront vacation home in Seattle. The original title took its cue from a line in Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky.” While the Shaye picture, which was given an advance preview in conjunction with a New Line 40-year retrospective conversation hosted by Sundance director Geoffrey Gilmore, won’t be phoning home those “E.T.” figures, “Mimzy” packs sufficient whimsy to make it a solid performer when it lands in theaters on March 23.ĭespite the spelling change, screenwriters Bruce Joel Rubin (“Ghost”) and Toby Emmerich (“Frequency”) are unlikely to offend many purists in their update of the original work, about a box of educational toys that have been sent back from the future to the present.
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