Hop, Skip, and a Jump is an animated family action comedy that examines the connection between childhood imagination and a child's own strained relationship with their parents. Set in San Francisco, California, Carrie works as a social worker. Due to the nature of her job’s importance, she places it as a higher priority than her own 8-year-old child, Lia. When Lia asks her to play a game of hopscotch before work, Carrie concedes “just this once.” However, Lia’s childhood imagination ultimately translates into the physical as the whole world shifts into “Hopscotch World” when the game begins after she throws her “magic rock”. In Hopscotch World, the game is played to the ultimate extreme through a series of life-or-death obstacle courses. The course utilizes stereotypical items you would find in a child's front yard, such as giant jump ropes, jaxs, and traffic cones. The film progresses as Carrie finds a childlike enjoyment of the game and becomes more competitive. However, when Lia breaks the rules by accident and is put in danger of not surviving her own course, Carrie is forced to break her streak to save her daughter and have them complete the course alive. After they survive, they travel back into the real world, and Carrie begins to stress about being late for work. However, rather than abandoning work altogether, Lia uses her magic rock to bring to life one of her unicorn chalk drawings, which they then ride together into the sunset.
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