#the indian in the cupboard 1995

[the-infamous-singing-pig-man]

This is purely for my own enjoyment, but @copepods posted the blank version of this and mentioned putting their favorite fictional guys in it, so I had to try it and I had a GREAT time

Pictured are the following:

Teddy Duchamp - Stand By Me (sad wet cat/deranged)

Maurice - Little Monsters (deranged)

Arvid - Swing Kids (sad wet cat)

Jake - Newsies (bisexual)

Boone - The Indian In The Cupboard (sad wet cat/bisexual)

Bernard the Elf - The Santa Clause (deranged/bisexual)

Gabriel - Supernatural (sad wet cat/deranged/bisexual

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

(Also P L E A S E come into my inbox/DMs if you want to gush about any of these characters with meeeee)

[90s-2000s-barbie]

The Indian In The Cupboard (1995)

[rye-views]

The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) dir. Frank Oz. 7.6/10

I would not recommend this movie to my friends. I would not rewatch this movie.

What an interesting name Omri is.

My god, the poor rat being kicked. Patrick is not a friend I would trust. I get that they're kids, but please. But, good character development.

I like that Litefoot is Native American. I like that Little Bear and Boone are amigos. I just think Hal is doing great child acting. Little Bear is such a good character.

It's like honey I shrunk the kids and Toy Story vibes. This really brought me back to my childhood and I really remember so many of the props. Good thing Omri's family just has hella toys.

[aiiaiiiyo]

[justforbooks]

Lynne Reid Banks, who has died aged 94, hit a jackpot with her first book, The L-Shaped Room (1960), the story of an unmarried middle-class girl, Jane Graham, who takes a dingy room in London to hide her unwanted pregnancy. The novel was a cracking read that caught the cusp of a momentous change in social attitudes. Its profile rose even higher when it became a film in 1962, with Leslie Caron playing its heroine. It sold in its millions and never went out of print.

This success was both a blessing and curse for Reid Banks. In the decades that followed, she published nine further novels (two of them sequels to The L-Shaped Room), two award-winning volumes of biographical fiction on the lives of the Brontës, two books about Israel and numerous books for younger readers. But nothing she wrote ever matched the acclaim for The L-Shaped Room.

Reid Banks was a dramatic and dynamic woman who lived her life with gusto. If the slights of the literary world sometimes hurt her, they never quenched the energy and passion she brought to her work. Stories flowed effortlessly from her pen, characterised by lively dialogue, well-crafted plots and compulsive readability.

The Indian in the Cupboard (1980), a children’s book she wrote for and dedicated to her youngest son, Omri, came closest to her first success, in sales, translation into 20 languages and transformation into a Hollywood film in 1995. That pleased her. But in the same year, she expressed outrage that her longstanding publishers had turned down her latest adult novel. She nevertheless found another publisher and received considerable praise for Fair Exchange (1998), a book she dedicated to her friend Norma Kitson, whose remarkable struggle against apartheid in South Africa infuses its story.

Lynne was born in Barnes, London, the only child of a Scottish doctor, James Reid Banks, and an Irish actor, Muriel (nee Marsh, who went by the stage name Muriel Alexander), and began her education at a Catholic boarding school. At the start of the second world war, aged 10, she travelled with her mother and a cousin to Canada, which she thoroughly enjoyed. On her return to London, she went to Rada, and thence began acting in provincial rep, like the heroine of The L-Shaped Room.

It was during this period that she met and enraged the young John Osborne, whose first wife, the actor Pamela Lane, was her close friend. Osborne’s letters revealed not only his dislike of her, but the probability that she inspired one of the main characters in his own first success, Look Back in Anger.

A combative streak in Reid Banks got her into spats all her life. But she was no less forthright in her judgments of herself than of others. She did not hesitate to call herself a failed actress, failed playwright (of several plays) and failed television reporter, before her true career took off.

In the doldrums, she began writing freelance journalism, and when she went to interview the head of the embryonic ITN for the Radio Times, she also talked him into employing her. She thereby became one of the first two female reporters on television in 1955. This did not satisfy her for long, however, as (she claimed) they only gave her “the rubbish” to do. When she complained, they put her into a cubbyhole and set her to work writing scripts.

Bored stiff, she began using ITN’s stationery supplies and time to start work on her first novel. She later recalled how the newsreader Reginald Bosanquet would read a page off her typewriter in mocking amusement. But the laugh was on Reggie when the Evening Standard later ran the headline: “ITN girl sells film script for £25,000.” The real sum for The L-Shaped Room was £20,000, but that was still princely in those days.

She was not happy with the film, which changed the book’s story. It was a hit, but it took her 30 years to forgive the director, Bryan Forbes. It also infuriated her that people assumed she had written of single motherhood from personal experience, rather than imagination. Although on the crest of a wave of fame, money and success, Reid Banks left the country and did not return for a decade.

She had met the man whom in 1965 she was to marry, the Israeli sculptor Chaim Stephenson, while he was visiting Britain. She was not Jewish, but she went out to Israel and loved it, becoming an Israeli citizen. The couple lived on a kibbutz near the Sea of Galilee, and their three sons were born there.

It surprised but delighted her, soon after her arrival in Israel, to be asked to leave her hot, tiring work in the vineyards to teach English to a class of children. She threw herself into this new occupation with zeal, relishing the chance to use her acting skills, and achieved outstanding results.

But as the years went by, she missed Britain, and in the early 1970s she came back, the family settling uncomfortably at first in the London suburbs, but later living happily in a farmhouse in Beaminster, Dorset, and later still settling in Shepperton in Surrey. Her output of books for children continued (she produced many sequels and series), and she travelled, gardened and wrote for newspapers.

Chaim died in 2016. Reid Banks is survived by her sons, Adiel, Gillon and Omri, and her grandchildren, Daniel, David and Paloma.

🔔 Lynne Reid Banks, writer, born 31 July 1929; died 4 April 2024

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[retropopcult]

The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)

[casualpersonbluebird]

THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD (1995) You are always a great people

[vtgbooks]

Lynne Reid Banks THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD Movie Book 1995 90s Movie Paperback

[fitsofgloom]

"You are always a great people, but it's not always so good."

[mariocki]

The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)

"Are we always a great people?"

"You are always a great people. But it's not always so good."

[primatechnosynthpop]

I feel like looking back at media you consumed as a young child will often result in coming to two separate yet equally true conclusions: 1) boy howdy, there's a lot of problematic elements to this (particularly if it's an older piece of media, but even more recent stuff is far from immune) and 2) in retrospect, these characters were probably gay

[42minutesin]

42 minutes into The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)

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[burningexeter]

• The Big 4

• Wednesday

• Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

• Suburgatory

• Locke and Key

• Stranger Things

• Superstore

• The Mindy Project

• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

• Good Boys

• Goon Duology

• Blockers

• Keanu (2016)

• SubUrbia

• Tape (2001)

• The Good, The Bad, The Weird

• Return To Oz

• The Kid Who Would Be King

• The Karate Kid (2010)

• Eric (Netflix)

• The Indian In The Cupboard

• Creeped Out (CBBC)

— Trolled, A Boy Called Red, Shed No Fear, Side Show 1 & 2

— Itchy, The Many Place, The Unfortunate Five, No Filter, The Takedown & Splinta Claws

• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

• The Last American Vampire

• Neverwhere (BBC Mini-series)

• Pete's Dragon (2016)

• The Children (2008)

• Murder Party (2007)

• Treevenge (2007 short)

• One Last Dive (2013 short)

• Stomp Out Loud (1997)

• Coco (2017)

• Encanto (2021)

• R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series (every episode except Red Eye, Poof De Fromage, Bad Egg, Mrs. Worthington & Lotsa Luck *vomits*)

• Paul (2011)

• Galaxy Quest

• Repo Man (1984)

• Mouse Guard (Comic Series)

• The Haunting Of Hill House

• The Haunting Of Bly Manor

• Midnight Mass

• Doctor Sleep

• Cocoon (1985)

• Backdraft (1991)

• Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

• The Fast and the Furious (1, 2, BLT, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7)

• Juice (1992)

• Snowfall

• Top Boy

• Poetic Justice

• Blade

• Blade II

• The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

• The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian

• Fresh (2022)

• The Voices (2014)

• Peggy Sue Got Married

• Firewatch

• Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

• Year Of The Dragon

• Sorcerer (1977)

• Shopping (1994)

• Collateral (2004)

• The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

• Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein

• Braindead aka Dead Alive

• Ready Or Not

• Deathwatch (2002)

• Empire Of The Sun

• Flight (2012)

• The Walk (2015)

• Birdman (2014)

• It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

• Fawlty Towers

• Spaced

• Peep Show

• Father Ted

• Ghostwatch (1992)

• WNUF Halloween Special

• Out There Halloween Mega Tape

• Phone Booth

• The Game (1997)

• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)

• The Killer (2023)

• The Equalizer Trilogy

• The Usual Suspects

• Judgment Night

• Under Siege

• Road House (1989)

• Water For Elephants (2011)

• The Greatest Showman (2017)

• Universal Soldier (1992)

• Now You See Me Duology

• The Wrestler (2008)

• The Town (2010)

• Crimson Peak

• Critters (1 & 2)

• Two Evil Eyes

• Alone In The Dark (1982)

• Rambling Rose (1991)

• Where The Wild Things Are (2009)

• The Dollars Trilogy

• Once Upon A Time In The West

• Casino (1995)

• Gangs Of New York

• Cronos (1993)

• A Simple Plan

• Oldboy (2003)

• I Saw The Devil

• Runaway Train (1985)

and last but not least,

• The Pirates Of The Caribbean Trilogy

~ fin ~

The Wildwood Universe

What is it —

A headcanon shared universe of all these different kinds of media from all genres that take place in the same universe. Different places, different times and most of all, different tones.

• Wildwood (2025)

• The Night Gardener (LAIKA)

• Oz (HBO)

• The Wire

• Breaking Bad

— Better Call Saul

— El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

• Sons Of Anarchy

— Mayans MC

• The West Wing

• The X Files (the first nine seasons)

— Millennium

— The Lone Gunmen

— Fight The Future

• Buffy The Vampire Slayer

— Angel

• Seinfeld

• Malcolm In The Middle

• Arrested Development (the first three seasons)

• Drake & Josh

— Drake & Josh Go Hollywood

— Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh

• Freaks & Geeks

• Undeclared

• My So-Called Life

• Dawson's Creek

• Party Of Five

• Skins (U.K.)

• Shameless (U.S.)

• Black Books

• The Office (U.S.)

• Parks and Recreation

• Modern Family

• Weeds (the first three or six seasons)

• Orange Is The New Black

• The Venture Bros.

— Radiant Is The Blood Of The Baboon Heart

• LOST

• Heroes

• Fringe

• Pushing Daisies

• Hannibal (NBC)

• Todd McFarlane's Spawn Trilogy (HBO)

• Baccano! (English Dub)

• Hellsing Ultimate (English Dub)

— The Dawn (English Dub)

• Black Lagoon (English Dub)

• Monster (English Dub)

• Death Note (English Dub)

• Durarara!! (English Dub)

— Durarara!! x2 (English Dub)

• Attack On Titan (English Dub)

• A Certain Magical Index (English Dub)

— A Certain Scientific Railgun (English Dub)

— A Certain Scientific Accelerator (English Dub)

— The Miracle Of Endymon (English Dub)

• Chuck (NBC)

• Brooklyn Nine-Nine

• NYPD Blue

• 24

— Live Another Day

• Prison Break (the first two seasons)

• Twin Peaks (Original Series)

— Fire Walk With Me

— The Return

• Tales From The Crypt (HBO)

— The first five episodes of Season 1

— Cutting Cards, The Thing From The Grave, The Sacrifice, For Cryin' Out Loud, Four-Sided Triangle, Judy, You're Not Yourself Today, Fitting Punishment, Lower Berth, Mute Witness To Murder & Television Terror

— Abra Cadaver, Top Billing, Easel Kill Ya, Undertaking Palor, Deadline & Yellow

— None But The Lonely Heart, On A Deadman's Chest, Beauty Rest, What's Cookin', The New Arrival, Showdown, King Of The Road, Maniac At Large, Split Personality & Strung Along

— Forever Ambergris, People Who Live In Brass Hearses, Two For The Show, Well Cooked Hams, Came The Dawn & Half-Way Horrible

— Only Skin Deep, The Bribe, The Assassin, Staired In Horror, Surprise Party & You, Murderer

— Fatal Caper, Escape, Horror In The Night, Cold War, The Kidnapper, Report From The Grave & Confession

• Thief (1981)

• Heat (1995)

• Reservoir Dogs

• True Romance

• Natural Born Killers

• Pulp Fiction

• Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2

• Inglourious Basterds

• Django Unchained

• The Hateful Eight

• From Dusk Till Dawn

• Trick r Treat

• Krampus

• Doctor Who (1963 - 2017)

— Doctor Who: The Movie (1996)

— Torchwood

— The Sarah Jane Adventures

— Class (2016)

• Good Omens (Amazon Prime)

• Friday The 13th (1980) & A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)

— Part 2

— Part 3

— The Final Chapter

— Jason Lives

— The New Blood

— Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday

— Freddy's Revenge

— Dream Warriors

— The Dream Master

— The Dream Child

— Freddy Vs. Jason

• The Evil Dead Trilogy

— Ash Vs. Evil Dead

• The People Under The Stairs

• Nightbooks (2021)

• Dog Soldiers

• Big Trouble In Little China

• Overlord (2018)

• Scream Queens

• Nip/Tuck

• Remedy Connected Universe

— Alan Wake

— Alan Wake II

— Control

• Borderlands (2009)

— Borderlands 2

— Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

— Tales From The Borderlands

— Borderlands 3

— New Tales From The Borderlands

— Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

• Silent Hill (1999)

— Silent Hill 2

— Silent Hill 3

— Silent Hill 4: The Room

• Misfits

• Veronica Mars (Original Series)

— Veronica Mars (2014)

— Veronica Mars (Hulu)

• Bones

• Castle

• Attack The Block (2011)

• E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

• Family Matters

• The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air

• Martin

• The Bernie Mac Show

• Pair Of Kings

• Beverly Hills Cop

— Beverly Hills Cop II

— Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

• Rush Hour

— Rush Hour 2

• Friday (1995)

— Next Friday

— Friday After Next

• The 'Burbs

• Heathers

• Hot Fuzz

• Dead Like Me

• Wonderfalls

• Death Becomes Her

• Nope (2022)

• Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

• The Secret Of NIMH (1982)

• Contact (1997)

• Flatliners (1990)

• Rango (2011)

• The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

• The Mummy (1999)

— The Mummy Returns

• The Jungle Book (1994)

• The Invisible Man (2020)

• Wolf Man (2025)

• Ginger Snaps

— Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed

• Let Me In (2010)

• Erma (Webcomic Series)

• Keeper Of The Lost Cities (Animated Series)

• MirrorMasks

• Gargoyles (Reboot)

• Huntik (Reboot)

• W.I.T.C.H. (Reboot)

• Walking Dead: The Animation

• The Dark Harvest (Animated Series)

• Knightriders (1981)

• Bioshock

— Bioshock 2

— Bioshock Infinite

• Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)

— Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022)

• John Wick

— John Wick: Chapter 2

— John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum

— John Wick: Chapter 4

• Atomic Blonde

• Nobody (2021)

• Shaolin Soccer

• The Adventures Of Tintin (2011)

• Titanfall 2

• Snatch (2000)

And that is literally not even all of it.

It will continue, just give me some more time.

[vhsdreamz]

The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) trailer

[junkfoodcinemas]

The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) dir. Frank Oz

[mice-rats-daily]

Today’s rat is The Rat from Indian in the Cupboard (1995)!