The Tiger's Apprentice
Release Date: Unspecified Release - Wide Release
Distributor: Miramax Films
Film Genre: Family
Country: United States
This is based on the Chinese-American kid-literature author Laurence Yep's trilogy of books which focuses on a Chinese-American boy raised in San Francisco by his grandmother, whom he discovers is the guardian of a magical phoenix egg. Given that monumental destruction could ensue if the egg falls into the wrong hands, the boy must learn ancient Chinese magic in order to carry on his grandmother's role, undergoing training with a tiger capable of assuming human form.