Rob letterman directs this comedy adventure based loosely on the classic satirical novel by jonathan swift jack black stars as lemuel gulliver a lowly mailroom worker who spontaneously reinvents himself as a free spirited travel writer in order to impress a co worker he soon finds himself mistakenly sent off on a whirlwind assignment to bermuda and en route is washed ashore on the hidden island of lilliput initially captured and enslaved by the islands diminutive and industrious population