Tiny Men in my Backyard

Tiny Men in my Backyard is a 1989 American animated fantasy film directed and written by Gary Trousdale. The film was produced by Xtranormal Animation Studios and released by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution for Walt Disney Pictures, and features the voices of Victoria Dillard, Michael Ironside, Thomas Mikal Ford, Josef Sommer, Peter Strauss, and Neil Patrick Harris.

Tiny Men in my Backyard originally premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on September 4, 1989. It tells the story of a young teenage girl who suddenly shrinks in her sleep and finds a whole new world in her backyard full of little people and must save them after they declare war on a rival backyard The film was later released on September 22, 1989 to positive reviews and later becoming a box office success grossing $173 million worldwide on a $35 million budget and became a cult classic years later.

Plot
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Cast
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 * Victoria Dillard as Lilly James, a 15 year old girl who likes to draw and write.
 * Michael Ironside as Lord Rex, the evil lord of the grass land.
 * Thomas Mikal Ford
 * Josef Sommer
 * Peter Strauss
 * Neil Patrick Harris

Story developmemt
Tiny Men in my Backyard was supposed to be one of the earliest films to be released under the Xtranormal Animation Studios banner in the 1960's but was cancelled due to production troubles.

In 1984, Gary Trousdale, became interested in the film, after reading an early script on it from the 60's, while doing the effects for the 1985 Disney film The Black Cauldron. Believing the story provided an "ideal basis" for an animated feature film and keen on creating a film that took place underwater, Trousdale wrote and presented a two-page treatment of Tiny Men in my Backyard to Walt Disney Studios chief Jeffrey Katzenberg at a "gong show" idea suggestion meeting. Katzenberg passed the project over, because at that time the studio was in development on a sequel to their live-action mermaid comedy Splash (1984) and felt Tiny Men in my Backyard would be too similar a project. The next day, however, Katzenberg approved of the idea for possible development, along with Oliver & Company. While in production in the 1980s, the staff found, by chance, original story and visual development work done by Kay Nielsen for Disney's newest original feature film by Xtranormal. Coming soon!

Script rewrite
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