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Synopsis

A voice-over narrator explains that once every thousand years, the so-called 'Great Clock of Time' pauses to let in the sun's rays in it's domain when it is most vulnerable and when a simple spoken wish could stop it's timing.

After the opening credits, we are introduced to Jimmy Jaye (Dennis Jones) an eight-in-a-half year old boy in his bedroom waking up and hearing his mother remind him that it's time to get up and go to the very first day of school. As his mother keeps reminding him to keep up with time, Jimmy talks to himself saying "time to do this, time to do that.... I wish time would just stop!" Suddenly his wish is granted and the Great Clock stops ticking. All over the neighborhood (and the world as well), everyone gets frozen in their tracks.

Observing all of this from a mystical realm, an elderly Astronomer (Karl Stoeber) calls upon his daughter Aurora (Nancy Jo Berg) where a large globe-like lantern trinket (about the size of a basketball) materializes before the Astronomer who tells Aurora to go to the little boy who made the wish to stop time and for him to put it back in the Great Clock at World's End so time can start again. After Aurora teleports away, the Astronomer is visited by a fiendish looking wizard known as Mr. Fig (David Blight Jr.) who realizes through the Astronomer's nervous ramblings that Aurora intends to put the globe back in the Great Clock. Mr. Fig teleports away.

Aurora materializes before Jimmy in his bedroom where she tells him about the wish he made and that he must correct things so that time can start again. Since Jimmy made the wish, only he can replace the globe in the Great Clock. After using the golden globe to teleport to the alternate Oz-like land, Aurora explains the journey to Jimmy in song ('One Step at a Time').

After walking into a field, Aurora tells Jimmy that she must leave him temporarily as they are passing through the land of Mr. Fig the "time killer" who is determined to prevent him from reaching World's End. After Aurora teleports away, Mr. Fig appears and first not recognizing Jimmy, introduces himself in song ('Mr. Fig'). Afterwords, Mr. Fig figures that Jimmy is the one that made the wish that stopped time and tries to intimidate him not to continue with his travels. Jimmy is not fazed and after Mr. Fig departs from the scene, Aurora re-materializes so she and Jimmy can continue their journey.

Aurora tells Jimmy that they need to find the tribe of the Nakawakana Indians who can direct them to the trail that leads to World's End. While walking along a small paved road, Aurora and Jimmy arrive at a fork in the road and follow a road sign that points to the Nakawkana Indian village, unaware that Mr. Fig had switched signs for the path leading to 'Slow Motion Land'. After seeing that they are not in the right area as Aurora and Jimmy arrive in a playground area where everyone is moving in slow motion, they retrace their steps out of Slow Motion Land with a little help from three little girls.

Deciding to rest for a while, Aurora produces two inflatable mattresses so she and Jimmy can rest, but Mr. Fig tries to turn the red-tinted land into blue-tinted land for night to make them fall asleep. It almost works until Aurora uses the golden globe to reverse the effect and it has Mr. Fig going to sleep, and leading Aurora and Jimmy to leave the scene.

Aurora and Jimmy arrive in a clearing where they find a group of young men with green skin whom are the Nakawakana Indians frozen in place as a result of Jimmy's time stopping wish. After Aurora un-freezes them in using the golden globe's power, they proceed with their "rain dance". The Indian Medicine Man (Alan Rock) approaches and berates Jimmy for interrupting their rain dance since they have been trying to make it rain for several days since their crops are wilting due to the summer-long drought. Aurora offers to help them in exchange for telling them the path to World's End by using the golden globe to make it rain. However the "rain" that falls turns out to be beans.... jelly beans! In song, Aurora tells the green-skinned Indians that they are the most favorite beans to eat ('Beans'). The Medicine Man tells Aurora that he feels outmatched by her own power and teleports away to return to his winter home... in Miami Beach! In thanking them for a bowl of jelly beans, the Indians point out to Jimmy and Aurora the trail that leads to World's End.

A little later, while resting on a stone rock, Jimmy tells Aurora that he thinks about quitting their journey, but Aurora tells Jimmy, via a the spinning golden globe about another young boy who stopped time....

In a long 19-minue animated sequence, a young boy named George, who lived many years ago on a large island somewhere in Europe, made a wish about time stopping and the globe made time stop due to a wicked witch's curse. A friend of George then took him on a magical journey to a make-believe land to meet the so called 'Captain of the Cats' to help defeat the wicked witch. After the journey and magical battle, the witch was defeated, the golden globe was placed back in the Great Clock and time started again.

Back in the present world, Jimmy decides to continue his journey, and Aurora reminds him in song about his responsibilities to starting time in their journey ('Think Big'). Aurora and Jimmy come across a parked car with a trailer hooked up to it and decide to get to World's End faster by driving, but Mr. Fig magically transforms the car with the towed trailer into a Volkswagon vehicle when Aurora and Jimmy enter. Then transforms the Volkswagon into a tantrum bicycle before making it disappear entirely. Aurora and Jimmy have to continue their journey on foot.

A little later, Mr. Fig materializes once again before Aurora and Jimmy and offers Jimmy a bribe to give up his journey to World's End by offering him a serving tray of his favorite foods which include hot dogs, soda pop, peanuts and popcorn. Aurora tells Jimmy not to be temped by Mr. Fig and Jimmy and Aurora walk past him. Next they come across a talking tree that offers Jimmy a hot dog (the tree is Mr. Fig in disguise). Aurora encourages Jimmy to keep walking.

Next, Aurora and Jimmy walk through a nature trail through a "monkey jungle". Jimmy sees a chimpanzee watching them from a nearby palm tree, but the chimp is Mr. Fig in disguise. After making it through the monkey jungle, Aurora and Jimmy arrive at a garden-like clearing as the final leg of their journey to World's End begins. Ahead of them, Mr. Fig produces a jug of what is called 'Laughing Syrup' and pours it into a nearby spring pond and hides in the nearby bushes. Aurora and Jimmy, walking through the garden, come upon the pond and decide to take a drink of water due to the hot weather. As expected, they both begin exhibiting uncontrolled laughter. Mr. Fig jumps out of the bushes from his hiding place and attempts to snatch the golden globe away only to fall into the pond itself, and he is affected by the laughing syrup and begins to laugh hysterically while Aurora and Jimmy make their escape.

After walking through a fog-shrouded clearing, Aurora and Jimmy arrive at a large stone wall which is finally their destination of World's End. Aurora uses the golden globe to make an opening in the wall where they walk through it and into a maze-like coral stone castle that is supposed to be World's End. Aurora points out to Jimmy a small stone tower a short distance away and tells him that since he made the wish to stop time, only he can replace the golden globe back in the Great Clock. Aurora tells Jimmy to hurry for if Mr. Fig steals the golden globe there, he might stop time forever. After Aurora materializes away, Mr. Fig materializes and chases Jimmy all around the coral stone castle trying to catch him to seize the globe. Jimmy manages climb the steps to the tower with Mr. Fig not far behind him and replaces the globe back in the Great Clock as it's swinging pendulum and the clock re-starts. Mr. Fig screams in defeat and fades away. Aurora re-materializes before Jimmy and congratulates him for "saving time". With time starting back again, Aurora teleports Jimmy with her back to his home.

Jimmy wakes up back in his bed, from where the film begin... wondering if everything he remembers was just a dream. He once again hears his mother's voice in reminding him that it's time to get up to go to his first day of school. As Jimmy is getting dressed, he can't find his other sneaker and wishes that he could just find it... and then the other sneaker materializes before him.

Jimmy runs off to his elementary school and goes to his first class. In the classroom, Jimmy appears astonished that his teacher to his first class is the dead-splitting image of Aurora. The teacher tells him that he has arrived "ahead of time" and asks his name and age. Jimmy sees the golden globe on Aurora-turned-Teacher's desk where she remarks that Jimmy seems to recognize the globe as "old friends". Jimmy happily replies that they and the golden globe sure are.

The End