During the last days of World War I, a group of German soldiers suffer physically and mentally as their idealistic dreams of glory turn into a desperate struggle to stay alive.
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Concerns the adventures of Bilbo Baggins the hobbit as he assists thirteen dwarves in their attempt to recapture their treasure from Smaug, the terrible dragon.
Live action version of the story in which a cat in a hat wrecks havoc on the house of two children while their mother is away, then magically cleans up.