
The children's parents and Larry White, Noah's science teacher, discover the devices and the children's powers. Emma describes herself as "the chosen one" but names Noah as "the engineer" without which she cannot "build the bridge to the future".

The children gain genius-level intellects and psionic powers: Noah can teleport objects using a card-sized rectangle of green lines of light and a conch shell to control spiders, but thanks to her link, Emma develops the more advanced abilities, becoming the only one who can use the "spinners", stones which can float and produce a force field. The children keep their discovery secret from their parents.Įmma becomes telepathically connected to the rabbit, naming it "Mimzy", which imparts knowledge onto her. The "toys" are initially incomprehensible to them, other than one which appears to be a stuffed rabbit. Here, they are discovered by two children: Noah Wilder and his younger sister, Emma.

The film features Timothy Hutton, Joely Richardson, Rainn Wilson, Kathryn Hahn, Michael Clarke Duncan, and introduces Rhiannon Leigh Wryn as seven-year-old Emma Wilder and Chris O’Neil as ten-year-old Noah.Ī scientist in the distant future has set out to avert a catastrophic ecological disaster, and sends a small number of high tech devices that resemble toys back in time to modern day Seattle. It was loosely based upon the 1943 science fiction short story " Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett (a pseudonym of husband-and-wife team Henry Kuttner and C.

The Last Mimzy is a 2007 American science fiction adventure drama film directed by New Line Cinema founder Robert Shaye.
