Toys in the Attic (; festival title: In the Attic or Who Has a Birthday Today?) is a 2009 internationally co-produced stop-motion animated fantasy film directed by Jiří Barta and written by Edgar Dutka and Barta which depicts a community of toys and other objects in an attic who come to life when no human is around. It is an international co-production between the Czech Republic, France, Japan and Slovakia. The film was released first in the Czech Republic on 5 March 2009 and has been shown subtitled at film festivals internationally. An American English dub – adapted, produced and directed by Vivian Schilling and performed by actors including Forest Whitaker, Joan Cusack, Cary Elwes and Schilling herself – has been recorded, which the film was first shown with on 3 March 2012 at the New York International Children's Film Festival and was released nationally on 24 August 2012 by Hannover House. Plot In an attic full of discarded junk, a pretty doll called Buttercup lives in an old trunk together with her friends, the marionette Sir Handsome, the lovable Teddy Bear, a Mechanical Mouse and the plasticine creature, Laurent. When Buttercup is snatched and taken off to the Land of Evil, her pals set out on a wondrous and daring adventure to rescue her from the all-powerful Head of State. Originally produced in Czech, the meticulously crafted animated feature is set in a magical world of toys and knick-knacks stored in the attic of a home in Prague. Following the symbolism of the Cold War era that impacted director Barta and the Czech Republic, the world of the attic is divided into the land of happy toys in the west and the land of evil in the east. The despotic Head of State rules over the evil empire of the east with a band of sinister minions, insects and rotted vegetables. Czech Cast Bára Dlouhá as Paní Na Ulici Barbora Hrzánová as Myška Sklodowská Boris Hybner as Mucha Vladimír Javorský as Rytíř Krasoň Nada Konvalinková as Služebná Růženka Johana Krticková as Holčička - Hlas Věra Kubánková as Babička - Hlas Jirí Lábus as Hlava / Vládce Říše Zla Petr Nározný as Kocour Baron Lucie Pernetová as Panenka Pomněnka Ivan Trojan as Skřítek Šubrt Miroslav Táborský as Doktor Skarab Ludmila Ungrichtová as Babička Andrea Zádníková as Holčička English Dub Cast Forest Whitaker as Teddy Joan Cusack as Madam Curie Vivian