The Flying Liftboy
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First episode date January 1, 2000 Duration Country Netherlands | 6/10 IMDb Genre Adventure, Family | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Burny Bos , Annie M.G. Schmidt Release date November 26, 1998 Cast Rick van Gastel (Abeltje), Soraya Smith (Laura), Frits Lambrechts (Jozias Tump), Marisa Van Eyle (Juffrouw Klaterhoen), (Mother of Abeltje), Carine Crutzen (Guerrilla boss)Similar movies Related Ben Sombogaart movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abeltje
The Flying Liftboy or Abeltje is a 1998 Dutch film directed by Ben Sombogaart. The film was based on the 1953 Dutch children's book Abeltje by Annie M. G. Schmidt.
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Young Abeltje gets a job as a liftboy in a department store. His boss tells him that he may not press the elevator's top (green) button under any circumstances. One time, when Abeltje gets into trouble, he presses the button, and the elevator goes shooting out the building and flies off.
Trapped with him on the elevator are a travelling mothball salesman, Jozias Tump; a singing instructor, Miss Klaterhoen, and a young girl, Laura. They fly across the ocean and eventually arrive in New York City, where they land in Central Park. In New York, Abeltje is mistaken for another boy who has gone missing. They leave New York and fly to South America, where Tump is made president of a banana republic and the missing boy is freed. A coup against Tump breaks out and the foursome once again manage to escape with their lift.
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