The stories that Charles (Robert Stephens) tells his adoring niece are vivid and full of life, as they should be, for he is a professional writer. They all concern a charming ladies man and his adventures. When the tales mysteriously take on a life of their own in the real world, and Philibert (Gerard Depardieu) and his cronies actually begin to wreak their own special kind of havoc, Charles reluctantly takes responsibility for his creation and attempts to send him back into the netherworld of the imagination. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi