Child's Play (2019)

Bron Creative

United Artists Releasing

## Overview

Multinational Kaslan Corporation has just launched Buddi, a revolutionary line of high-tech dolls designed to be lifelong companions to their owners, learning from their surroundings, and acting accordingly, quickly becoming a worldwide success. At a Kaslan assembly factory in Vietnam, overworked employee Chien is fired by his supervisor for unsatisfactory performance. In retaliation, he tampers with the Buddi doll that he is assembling by disabling all of its safety protocols before committing suicide. The doll is packaged alongside others for its international delivery, and its eyes glow red, indicating its impending malfunction.

In Chicago, widowed retail clerk Karen Barclay and her twelve-year-old hearing-impaired son Andy have moved into a new apartment. In an attempt to cheer Andy up for the inconvenience of relocation and the presence of her new boyfriend Shane, Karen blackmails her boss in order to procure a Buddi doll, giving it to Andy as an early birthday gift. The doll that they are given happens to be the defective model.

Once activated, the doll names himself "Chucky" and becomes attached to Andy. Over time, Chucky helps him to befriend two other children, Falyn and Pugg but also begins to display violent tendencies. He tries to strangle the Barclays' pet cat after it scratches Andy and, while he and his friends gleefully watch a horror film, Chucky starts mimicking the violence, approaching the trio with a kitchen knife before Andy disarms him.

When Andy arrives home the next morning, he finds that his cat is dead. Chucky admits to having killed it so that it would not hurt Andy again. Karen locks the doll in a closet, but he escapes and terrorizes Shane, which leads him to confront Andy. Misunderstanding Andy's pleas for Shane to "go away", Chucky trails Shane to his home, where it is revealed that Shane is married with children and is having an affair with Karen behind his wife's back. While Shane is outside taking down Christmas lights, Chucky shakes Shane off a ladder, causing him to break his legs and activates a cultivator that scalps and kills him. Chucky then says "This is for Tupac!", and stabs Shane's corpse multiple times. The following day, Chucky delivers Shane's skinned face as a gift to a horrified Andy.

While police detective Mike Norris begins an investigation, Andy, Falyn, and Pugg disable Chucky and throw him into the garbage container so he won't kill anyone else. Building electrician Gabe finds the doll and fixes him to sell in an online sale. Now fully functional, Chucky tortures Gabe with a knife, then uses a table saw and raises a thermostat to kill him. Making his way back to the apartment, Chucky lands in possession of another child, Omar, and proceeds to kill Norris' mother Doreen in a controlled car crash out of jealousy, after Andy called her his friend. Meanwhile, Andy fails to convince Karen that the doll has become murderous and she takes him along to her work at the local shopping mall to keep him nearby. Suspecting that Andy is involved with the murders, Norris travels to the mall and arrests him just as Chucky takes full control of the building, and tells everyone it is "Time to play!".

Chaos is unleashed as several employees and customers are brutally killed by rampaging Buddi toys controlled by Chucky, and he triggers the mall's lockdown sequence. Norris is wounded during the massacre, and Andy and his friends manage to escape. However, Andy is forced to return when Chucky reveals that he is holding Karen hostage with intentions to kill her if Andy does not return. Andy manages to make it to the back room and free his mother as Chucky attacks, saying Andy does not need other friends, and he is Andy's only friend. Andy wrestles Chucky to the floor, and stabs him in his power cell. Chucky tells Andy, "I thought we were friends", before seemingly shutting down. As Andy begins walking away, Chucky lunges at Andy in a final attack, saying, "You are my buddy, until the END!" before Norris shoots him down and Karen beheads the doll, finally defeating him. While the police and paramedics tend to Karen, Norris, and other survivors outside the mall, Andy and his friends burn Chucky's body in a nearby alleyway.

In the aftermath of Chucky's killing spree, Kaslan issues a statement regarding Chucky's attack and faulty programming, and announces a massive recall. As one of the dolls is being placed into storage, his eyes flicker red and smiles, revealing that Chucky transferred his self-awareness into a new doll.

## Cast

* Aubrey Plaza as Karen Barclay
* Gabriel Bateman as Andy Barclay
* Brian Tyree Henry as Detective Mike Norris
* Mark Hamill as the voice of Chucky
* Tim Matheson as Henry Kaslan
* Beatrice Kitsos as Falyn
* Ty Consiglio as Pugg
* Marlon Kazadi as Omar
* David Lewis as Shane
* Carlease Burke as Doreen Norris
* Trent Redekop as Gabe
* Amro Majzoub as Wes
* Nicole Anthony as Detective Willis
* Phoenix Ly as Chien