Expert: Expert - 6/29/2004

Question
I have two questions.
1) What movie is this...it's a childrens movie from the 80's set in England/Britain, these two kids go through a mirror into this puppet land and then they fall down this dark hole and end up in this scary land, where they have to get this key from an evil witch, and there's this big shaggy, scary elephant guarding the castle.  The key opens this big glass thing covering this tree with like fruit or flowers on it.  PLEASE HELP ME! it's driving me crazy.

Ok, the other one...2)There's this boy who lives with his mom and step-dad, and doesnt know where his dad is.  He gets into trouble and is sent to his room.  He escapes out of his window and climbs down and leaves the house.  He is sitting on a park bench and this HUGE grey-beared, head floats down and tells him he's going to take  him to his dad.  The boy holds onto the beard and is flown away.  His dad turns out to be a king/prince in this far off land...and there's a big sword fight and stuff. That's all I remember.
Please help me if you can.
Thank you soooo much.
Erin

Answer
I'm afraid I don't recognize either film

HOWEVER, if you go to this URL

www.imdb.com/board/bd0000001/threads

you can post these same questions and have dozens of people helping you. I have used this board for about a dozen films whose title I was looking for; in one case I got an answer to a twenty year question (yes, I've been listing my films for that long) in about twenty minutes.

You'll have to register with Imdb.Com to post on this board, but all you'll have to provide is a nick and a your real e-mail address.  In seven years of using Imdb I have never gotten movie-related spam.