Inside is a horde of bizarre objects: a seashell encrusted with some opalescent substance a bunch of glittering, mica-like stones a small, glowing green tablet made of what appears to be green quartz and some rubbery amoeboid thing.
The family is vacationing at a beach house on Puget Sound's Whidbey Island when Emma notices a gleaming object embedded in the surf Noah pulls ashore a strange-looking box that opens at his touch like an intricate Chinese puzzle.
That is, until one fateful Easter vacation. New Line founder and sometime director Bob Shaye takes "Mimsy Were the Borogroves," Lewis Padgett's very grown-up 1943 fantasy tale about childhood, and transforms it into an intelligent, imaginative children's adventure refreshingly free of rapping cartoon animals, fart jokes and mind-numbing special effects.Ĭlever, 5-year-old Emma Wilder (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) and her 10-year-old brother, Noah (Chris O'Neil), are living relatively normal lives in suburban Seattle with their mom (Joely Richardson) and their lawyer dad (Timothy Hutton).
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