Jerry Sackheim

writer
Feature Film

The Boy and the Pirates


Young Jimmy Warren asks a genie to send him from present-day Massachusetts to the time of Blackbeard, and the genie obliges! But now, in order to avoid becoming a genie himself, Jimmy must trick the pirate into returning to Massachusetts. —Michael Main
This is a funny lookin’ bottle—yeah, neat. But I bet if I took it home, Pop would say, “It’s just another piece of junk.” Nobody let’s me do anything I want to. I wish I was far away from here; I wish I was on a pirate ship.
Along with many pirate scenes, a young, sword-wielding boy and his girl
                companion march toward a bearded pirate.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: Children
  • Definite Time Travel