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starring Hal Scardino...
Omri, played by Hal Scardino, is a young boy who brings his plastic action-figures to life by placing them inside a magic cupboard in his bedroom. He locks the door with a magic key, and when he opens the doors again, the figures come alive...
Unfortunately for this film version, much of that charm is lost in the corny way Scardino delivers his lines...
...Scardino's freckles and Letterman-style gap between his front teeth are cute from far away. When they take up the entire screen for the majority of the film, however, you begin to wish the director would cut to a Scope commercial and remind kids to brush their teeth...
...sextet of reliable actors -- John Cunningham, Jack Gilpin, Julie Hagerty, Mary Beth Peil, Robert Stanton and Jennifer Van Dyck -- shifts from one role to another as smartly as commuters leaping from the Stamford express to the Cos Cob local. But as directed by Playwrights boss Don Scardino, the evening is a failure. It ransacks the canon for easy laughs and outbursts. With only a few minutes devoted to each story, the characters rarely rise above caricature...