Small Soldiers

Small Soldiers

Release Date

1998

Director

  • Joe Dante

Cast

  • Kirsten Dunst
  • Gregory Smith
  • Frank Langella
  • Tommy Lee Jones
  • Phil Hartman
  • David Cross
  • Jay Mohr
  • Alexandra Wilson
  • Denis Leary

When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.

    When teenager Alan (Gregory Smith) buys a set of Commando Elite action figures, he's unaware that they have been programmed with military technology. The toys, including leader Chip (Tommy Lee Jones), spring to life and start taking their directives seriously, beginning by "killing" their enemies, the toy Gorgonites. But Archer (Frank Langella) and the Gorgonites won't go down without a fight. Alan gets caught in the middle of the war, as does his neighbor and crush, Christy (Kirsten Dunst). — Rotten Tomatoes

      Photo credit: DreamWorks

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