A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years.
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
Dr. Magrew en zijn dochter Jane hebben de legendarische poppen van poppenspeler André Toulon overgenomen en zijn ondertussen druk aan het experimenteren met nieuwe poppen. Als Magrew dan de niet al te snuggere Robert Wisley ontmoet en ziet wat deze jongen met zijn handen kan, besluit hij Robert een baan aan te bieden waarin hij poppen mag maken. En terwijl Jane langzaam maar zeker gevoelens begint te krijgen voor haar vaders nieuwe werknemer, heeft Dr. Magrew hele andere plannen met de jongen.
A rogue agent named Maclain breaks into the lab of Eric Weiss, who has spent his entire life fascinated by Andre Toulon's supernatural ability to breathe life into his carefully crafted figurines.
Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
Een documentaire over een oude animatietechniek en de filmstudio die de erfenis probeert voort te zetten. 's Werelds oudste animatiestudio die nog steeds film maakt met stop-motiontechniek is Nukufilm, gevestigd in Tallinn, Estland. Hier kunnen we het werk volgen in de studio die werd opgericht in het Sovjettijdperk en zware censuur en mondiale concurrentie heeft overleefd.
The story of how Jim Henson tried to convince broadcasters that The Muppets was a great idea and how he worked to get the characters on air where they became a comedy staple.