The Flying Liftboy
– A boy about 12 years old gets detention from his teacher because he got hit with a skateboard. His m..
A boy about 12 years old gets detention from his teacher because he got hit with a skateboard. His mother is furious with the teacher and takes her son from school to work. He finds work as a liftboy, but on the first day of his job he sees his teacher and the police at the warehouse were he works. He then presses the forbidden green button. The adventure then begins.
26 Nov 1998
Dutch, English, German, Spanish
Pupil Abel is the victim of Laura's nasty prank, yet gets accidentally blamed and overreacts. His ma withdraws him from school and gets him a job as lift-boy. But its' a special lift: when he pushes the forbidden green button, it takes him, Laura, Jozias Tump and Maria Klaterhoen to Manhattan. There he's mistaken by a rich bitch who looks like his mother for her long missing son Johnny. When a police helicopter comes to tow the lift cabin, the Dutchmen get back in. It takes them to a Latin American country, Perugona. The new revolutionary leader realizes presidents live about one year, so he gives the job to Mr. Tump, who saved his life. The news coverage attracts Abel's and Johnny's family, in time for an even weirder finale.
3 wins & 3 nominations.