A suburban defense lawyer mistakenly gives her troubled daughter, Zoe, a wooden puppet belonging to a deceased serial killer. The toy fills the void of friendship in Zoe's life, but Zoe begins to act increasingly strange and violent.
Defense attorney Jennifer Garrick acquires a Pinocchio puppet from a condemned serial killer. Her pre-teen daughter, Zoe, mistakes the puppet as a birthday present and grows really attached to her new doll friend. Suddenly, accidents begin to happen to those who cross Zoe. Zoe claims it's her Pinocchio doll. Zoe's therapist thinks otherwise. Soon Pinocchio and Zoe are conversing about his bad behavior. Pinnochio promises he'll behave if Zoe will cut his strings. Zoe complies, and the mysterious murders begin...—Humberto Amador
When a highway patrolman sees a man digging a grave for his own son in a road in a rainy day, he arrests the man and several pits with corpses and a dummy are found in the location. The media concludes that Vincent Gottois a serial-killer and his defense attorney Jennifer Garrick does not win the case and Vincent is sentenced to the electric chair. Jennifer is the divorced mother of Zoe Garrick, who is bullied by her schoolmate Beth (Tara Hartman) at school. The maid Sophia helps Jenny to raise her daughter and in the housework. Zoe has sessions with Dr. Edwards since her mother divorced her husband and started dating the constructor David Kaminsky. On Zoe's birthday party, the store does not deliver her doll gift and Jenny decides to give the Pinocchio's dummy that is an evidence to Zoe for the weekend as the substitute for her doll. However, Zoe is immediately attached to the dummy and she blames it for any wrongdoing. Soon many bad thing happen in Jenny's home and she believes that Pinocchio is the responsible.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A mother brings home an evil Pinocchio wooden puppet that supposedly caused a man to kill his son. Her little girl finds the doll and takes it as her own. They go along causing accidents until the real killings start and the doll takes over the little girl.—Dana Volkmer-Jones
