The Pagemaster

1994 · 76 min · dir. Joe Johnston

The Pagemaster is a 1994 American live-action animated fantasy adventure film starring Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy, Frank Welker, Ed Begley Jr., and Mel Harris. The film was produced by Colbath and Hanna-Barbera and released by 20th Century Fox and Turner Pictures on November 23, 1994. Culkin stars as a timid boy who uses statistics as an excuse to avoid anything he finds uncomfortable in life. But after reluctantly undertaking an errand for his father, he gets caught in a storm, which forces him to seek refuge in a library. He then finds himself trapped inside the library, where he must battle his way through literary classics come to life if he is to find his way home. Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.