MPAA Rating: PG, for some thematic elements, mild peril and language
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi/Family
Age range: Ages 6 and up
Runtime: Approx. 90 minutes
Starring: Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rainn Wilson, Kathryn Hahn, Chris O’Neil, and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn
Studio: New Line Cinema
Director: Bob Shaye
Screenwriter: Bruce Joel Rubin, Toby Emmerich
Release Date: March 23, 2007
The Last Mimzy Movie Trailer
The Last Mimzy - Synopsis
Based on the acclaimed sci-fi short story by Lewis Padgett, The Last Mimzy tells the story of two children who discover a mysterious box that contains some strange devices they think are toys. As the children play with these “toys,” they begin to display higher and higher intelligence levels. Their teacher tells their parents that they seem to have grown beyond genius. Their parents, too, realize something extraordinary is happening. Emma, the younger of the two, tells her confused mother that one of the toys, a beat-up stuffed toy rabbit, is named Mimzy and that “she teaches me things.”
As Emma’s mom becomes increasingly concerned, a blackout shuts down the city and the government traces the source of the power surge to Emma’s family’s house. Things quickly spin wildly out of their control. The children are focused on these strange objects, Mimzy, and the important mission on which they seem to have been sent. When the little girl says that Mimzy contains a most serious message from the future, a scientific scan shows that Mimzy is part extremely high level electronic, and part organic! Everyone realizes that they are involved in something incredible…but exactly what?
The Last Mimzy - Fun Facts
The Last Mimzy is based on the 1943 short story Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym for Henry Kuttner and his wife, C. L. Moore). The title of the story is taken from Lewis Carroll's "Jaberwocky," a famous poem for which Carroll made up several words, some of which are now become part of the English language. The poem and some definitions for the words in it can be found on Wikipedia.org. The word "mimsy" seems to be a combination of the words "miserable" and "flimsy."
