A young boy with a habit of daydreaming discovers that reality has caught up with his imagination -- with a vengeance -- in this comedy-adventure for the whole family. Bobby (Seth Adkins) ...
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| Tim Curry | ... | Jezebel Jack | |
| Seth Adkins | ... | Bobby | |
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Jeffrey Pillars | ... | DeGroot |
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Jeffrey Buckner Ford | ... | Skinner (as Buck Ford) |
| Charles Napier | ... | Grandpa | |
| Dee Wallace | ... | Glenna (as Dee Wallace-Stone) | |
| Sean Higgs | ... | Suey | |
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Danny Keogh | ... | Murzol |
| Peter Butler | ... | Ship's Medic | |
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Jeroen Kranenburg | ... | Ross |
| Farouk Valley-Omar | ... | Makaka | |
| Andre Jacobs | ... | Thurston (as André Jacobs) | |
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David Müller | ... | Boatswain |
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Rick Rogers | ... | One-Eyed |
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Michael Müller | ... | Big Pete |
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A young boy with a habit of daydreaming discovers that reality has caught up with his imagination -- with a vengeance -- in this comedy-adventure for the whole family. Bobby (Seth Adkins) is an eight-year-old boy growing up on a remote community in the rural Midwest with his mother (Dee Wallace Stone) and grandfather (Charles Napier), who are struggling to keep the family farm afloat. With few friends and not much to do besides his chores, Bobby entertains himself by retreating into a world of fantasy, where he battles cowboys and spacemen and can always outsmart the bad guys. One day, the town looks as if it's about to be hit with a freak storm, as dark red clouds fill the sky, but it turns out that a portal in time has appeared in the atmosphere, and who should drop through but Jezebel Jack (Tim Curry), a swaggering pirate (or, as Jack prefers to put it, "an adventurer of independent means") from the 17th century. Bobby rescues Jack and gives him a place to stay in their house; the ... Written by Richard Canipe
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14 January 2003 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Der Pirat aus der Vergangenheit See more »Filming Locations:
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Jezebel Jack: No. I'm an adventurer of independent means.
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Tim Curry has played other aquatic adventurer and/or pirate roles. Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates (as Captain Hook) Pirates of Dark Water (1991 -1993) Disney's Little Mermaid (1992 - 1994) Muppets Treasure Island, Titanic (1996) McHale's Navy (1999) and Back to the Sea (2012) See more »Quotes
Bobby: Are you a pirate?Jezebel Jack: No. I'm an adventurer of independent means.
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Rumours abound that the funds simply weren't there to have this movie released to a major market, and it went straight-to-video for the most part.
I am one of the few lucky Tim Curry fans to have seen "Pirates of the Plain" in an actual theater. In January 2000, USA Film Festival hosted KidFilm 2000. Two movies wrapped up the weekend of kid & family oriented movies: the classic "Wizard of Oz" and the new "Pirates of the Plain".
The audience was made up mainly of boys (go figure), a handful of girls, and a bunch of parents. I can honestly tell you that EVERYONE in the theater was entranced! Pirates is a genuinely exciting film!
A kind of "Home Alone" meets "Muppets Treasure Island", there was something for everyone. The entire audience, including adults, laughed and were amazed throughout the movie.
Nutshell: a young boy's hyper-active imagination, a storm, a ship, an audacious pirate, a fight, and a treasure? AND they save the family farm in one afternoon! Who can beat that?!