Makeup/special-effects maestro Stan Winston was justifiably lauded in 1993 for his triumph in rendering the awesome dinosaurs of JURASSIC PARK. Meanwhile, this Winston-directed feature, shot years earlier as UPWORLD, premiered on home video and was justifiably ignored.
A long-snouted little man in hobbit garb emerges from the sod of Los Angeles one night and witnesses a mob-related murder. Casey Gallagher (Anthony Michael Hall), the usual loose-cannon young policeman, reluctantly teams up with Gnorm the Gnome to solve the case. In return for ID'ing the gunman,
Gnorm asks Casey to recover what he lost in the confusion, a mystic crystal vital to his subterranean...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
86 mins