THE TIN SOLDIER (New DVD)
starring jon Voight, Ally Sheedy, and Dom Deluise
 
Adventure/Drama/Fantasy/TV/Family
A modern-day Fairy Tale about old-fashioned courage.
 
The Tin Soldier is a 1995 Showtime Network television movie which aired on May 27, 1995. An update of the Hans Christian Andersen tale. The story of a boy trying to find his place at a new school with the help of a toy knight that comes to life to teach him moral lessons. A boy trying to cope with his father's death much-needed guidance when his new toy soldier springs to life. Soon he gets caught in the mixed between two gangs at war with each other.
 
Troubled young Billy (Trenton Knight) has his mom (Ally Sheedy) worried that he is headed down the road to juvenile delinquency. One day, a kindly shopkeeper (Dom DeLuise) gives Billy a tin soldier, which springs to life. Calling himself Yarik (Jon Voight), the soldier values discipline above all and sets about teaching Billy and his wayward friends how to live moral lives. But even Yarik has his weakness, which takes the form of a tiny, attractive toy ballerina.
 
A brand new shrink-wrapped DVD movie.