Tom Thumb (2001) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

2001 · 90 mins · French

Directed by

Olivier Dahan

Starring

Saïd Taghmaoui, Catherine Deneuve, Samy Naceri, François Chattot, Romain Duris, Élodie Bouchez

Poucet, the youngest of a countless brood, lives with parents who, too impoverished to feed all their children, abandon them in a dense forest. Together the siblings struggle to survive, encountering magical creatures and strange trials as they search for a way home. The story adapts Charles Perrault’s French fairy tale “Le Petit Poucet.”