Remember This Stamp Movie?

I remember watching this movie when I was kid and the movie in a way pushed me into this hobby....

Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller (1990)

Review Summary

Tommy (Anthony Rogers) is a young stamp collector who gets his friend Ralph (Lucas Evans) to trade him a stamp from Ralph's father's collection in this engaging children's fantasy. Ralph and sister Nancy (Jill Stanley) try to buy it back from the local collectable store with no success. The siblings instead come up with a stamp collection from 1928 which includes a letter from a little boy. The letter contains magical rhymes that when recited shrink Ralph down to size. He is then able to travel around the world on various stamps to exotic places. Ralph learns that a rare collection of stamps awaits him when he arrives in Australia. ~ Dan Pavlides,

Movie Details

Running Time: 101 Minutes
Status: Released
Country: Canada
Genre: Fantasy, Animated

Never saw it, but I was working for Canada Post when it came out -- and Canada Post was one of the major financial backers behind it, as we got to hear over and over again. They could afford to fund a movie, but they couldn't settle our Contract...go figure.

Isn't this the film where the kid gets to travel on the Bluenose? I saw it a long time ago and it was really entertaining.

Another film about stamps: Nueve Reinas (Nine Queens), an Argentine film. Quite different but good.
In "Blackbook" (Zwartboek), the recent Dutch movie by Paul Verhoeven, one of the main characters collects stamps and this plays a role in the plot. It is a bit strange though, how many people would take their stampalbum with them in the train and go study the stamps in the first class carriage? Or work on their stampcollection in the office? No wonder the Germans lost the war ;)

There is another film where stamps (or rather a stamp) play a main role, but I can't remember the title. I think it was an old one, film noir style.

Jan-Simno

This is the Canadian movie where Tommy is trying to get back a 50-cent Bluenose with a "man in the mast" variety. It's was (and still is) a popular movie with children... I enjoyed the movie!

David

Yes thats the movie..that was the movie..itwas quite entertaining when I was a kid

You may be thinking of the classic Charade

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charade

What is the movie about?

exactly! That's the one.

There's a sequel to Tommy Tricker: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110976/
I haven't seen any of them

Oh, I didnt even knew there was a sequel

Charade is an Alfred Hitchcock movie, right? I haven't seen the Tommy Tricker films, but they do sound familiar. I wonder if Netflix has them?

So its a horror movie? wow, I never thought horror and stamps could be combined

Alfred Hitchcock is the master of suspense , Charade is not a Horror film.

Hey ... lets not forget Richard Pryor in Brewster's Millions having to spend millions without having assets in order to gain his inheritance , in one part of the movie he buys a rare stamp for a million and affixes it to a postcard and mails it.

My apologies for immediately associating Hitchcock to Horror films...

The stamp Richard Pryor bought was an inverted Jenny airmail stamp.

In the early 1980's stamps were looked at as an investment by some people. That particular stamp would have been worth a couple hundred thousand when the film was made, I believe. I recall the scene and he bought it from a stamp dealer and then immediately licked at and stuck it to the postcard. I think the dealer almost fainted, he definitely cringed at the act.

Wow...no wonder it was worth millions....i cant believe he just used it to mail a postcard