Toys (1992) on Netflix
PG-1319921h 58mAdventureComedyDramaFamily
Leslie Zevo builds toys at his father's factory. His father bypasses him and leaves the business to his brother, Lieutenant General Leland Zevo. Leland wants the factory to make war toys.
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Plot summary
Zevo Toys belongs to Kenneth Zevo, and his son Leslie works there as a toymaker. When Kenneth becomes ill, he judges Leslie's childlike nature a risk to the company and leaves it instead to his estranged brother, Leland Zevo, a lieutenant general in the army. He also hires Gwen Tyler, hoping she and Leslie will take to each other. Leland takes over but hands daily operations to Leslie and his sister Alsatia. Talk of corporate spying stirs his military instincts, and he asks his son Patrick, who works in covert operations, to tighten security. Leland then proposes that the factory build military toys, and Leslie objects, pointing to his father's rule against war toys.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Toys (1992)
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- Barry Levinson wrote Toys with his then-wife, Valerie Curtin, in 1979, intending it to be his directorial debut. The story came from a newspaper article he had read about the Soviet Navy Intelligence Department finding information about United States Navy nuclear submarines from toy models.
- The film nearly went over budget, but Levinson, Williams and producer Mark Johnson reduced costs to just $30 million after they agreed to defer their salaries.
- Producer Mark Johnson said the development hell was partly because their intentions were never understood: "we kept using the word 'whimsy'", while the studios "kept reading it as a black comedy".
- The film is steeped in Magritte. The poster given to theaters, showing Williams in a red bowler hat against a blue, cloud-lined background, evokes The Son of Man, and Golconda appears in a music video sequence performed by Leslie (Williams) and Alsatia Zevo (Joan Cusack).
