Family movies

Golden Compass, The (2007)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Kidman, Nicole | Craig, Daniel | Richards, Dakota Blue | Walker, Ben | Highmore, Freddie | McKellen, Ian | Green, Eva | Carter, Jim | Courtenay, Tom | McShane, Ian | Elliott, Sam | Lee, Christopher | Scott Thomas, Kristin | de Souza, Edward | Bates, Kathy
Directors: Weitz, Chris
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Lyra Belaqua, living in Oxford’s Jordan College, is not but a young girl living among scholars. Her world may seem diverse, from physical embodiments of souls that take the shape of an animal, but similar with people around you to become friends and enemies. She is thrown into a perilous adventure when she overhears a conversation of an extraordinary microscopic particle, Dust. This particle is said to unite different worlds, and is feared by many who want to destroy it forever. As Lyra is flung into the middle of this horrible struggle, she meets wondrous creatures both big and small, and villains who are not what they seem. Gobblers, that kidnap children, will turn out in the most unexpected places. And a magical compass of gold that will answer any question if one is skilled enough to read it. Lyra’s adventure continues throughout these three books, and the first is about to be told.

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Pfeiffer, Michelle | Fiennes, Joseph | Haysbert, Dennis | West, Timothy | Giannini, Adriano | Hui, Raman | Chan, Chung | Cummings, Jim | Vernon, Conrad | Birch, Andrew | Miller, Chris
Directors: Gilmore, Patrick
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Sinbad, the most daring and notorious rogue ever to sail the seven seas, has spent his life asking for trouble, and trouble has finally answered in a big way. Framed for stealing one of the world’s most priceless and powerful treasures—the Book of Peace—Sinbad has one chance to find and return the precious book, or his best friend Proteus will die. Sinbad decides not to take that chance and instead sets a course for the fun and sun of the Fiji Islands. However, Proteus’ beautiful betrothed, Marina, has stowed away on Sinbad’s ship, determined to make sure that Sinbad fulfills his mission and saves Proteus’ life. Now the man who put the “bad” in Sinbad is about to find out how bad bad can be.

Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, The (2007)

Monday, May 5th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Chaplin, Ben | Cox, Brian | Etel, Alex | Hall, Craig | Kaczorowski, Mathew | KB, Forbes | Morrissey, David | Napier, Marshall | Shand, Erroll | Smith, Adam | Tobeck, Joel | Brophy, Geraldine | Kaczorowski, Jessica | Watson, Emily | Xi, Priyanka
Directors: Russell, Jay
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Based on a novel by Dick King-Smith, author of The Sheep Pig (from which Babe was adapted), the touching and often spectacular The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep ingeniously presumes to explain the truth behind “Nessie,” i.e., the Loch Ness Monster. The story, told in present day to a couple of American tourists by a kindly gentleman (Brian Cox) in a pub, begins with a lonely boy, Angus (Alex Etel), pining for his father, who is serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. Angus, along with his sister (Priyanka Xi) and mother (Emily Watson), live on an estate that has been billeted by soldiers in the Scottish Highlands, near Loch Ness. The troop’s commander (David Morissey) has an eye for mom, suspicions about a mysterious handyman, Lewis (Ben Chaplin), who is also a war hero, and an absurd contention that the Highlands are the real frontline in the war against Germany.

Into this intriguing drama comes a completely different element, a fantastical creature of Celtic mythology that befriends Angus and is, in fact, the sea-beast who will eventually be known as the Loch Ness Monster. Trying to hide the dinosaur-like fellow, nicknamed Crusoe, Angus enlists Lewis to transfer it to the lake, where boy and serpent have extraordinary adventures together until human stupidity threatens Crusoe’s existence. A true family film, there is a lot for adults to like about the grownup story in The Water Horse. Meanwhile, the wistful relationship between Angus and Crusoe—each of whom helps the other move past obstacles toward their individual destinies—will leave children feeling both happy and melancholy in the best possible sense. Directed by Jay Russell (My Dog Skip), The Water Horse is the best of a mini-genre of films about or inspired by old Nessie.

Saving Sarah Cain (2007)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Pepper, Lisa | Mason, Abigail | Fulton, Soren | Gould, Elliott | Chuchran, Danielle | Maguire, Tanner | Harper, Tess | Madison, Bailee | Tate, Tom | O'Dell, Jennifer | Abrams, Phil | Clennon, David | Huntington, Tod | Meyer, Caitlin E.J. | Anderson, Steve
Directors: Landon Jr., Michael
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When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to Lancaster County to finish raising them there herself, or let them be separated by the foster care system, Sarah decides to take them with her back to Portland where she believes she can make a new life for them. However, she soon realizes that the modern world has forced them to compromise who they are, and that she has moved them there for all the wrong reasons - a motive which is soon exposed - because secrets can really never be kept secret. In order to find her own redemption, she knows she must make a choice to give them back their lives in Amish Country. And whether she remains part of their lives will have a lot to do with how much she has grown to love them.

Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, The (2007)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Genres: Family
Countries: UK
Actors: Bell, Aran | Berenger, Tom | Compston, Benji | Cowan, Elliot | Douglas, Sam | Eli, Benjamin | Jezek, Robert | Montgomery, Jack | Pickup, Ronald | Riddell, Derek | Ward-Wilkinson, Luke | Burt, Clare | O'Hara, Jenny | Richardson, Joely | Ronan, Saoirse
Directors: Clark, Bill
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When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it. The commission takes their relationship to unexpected places as the young client makes greater and more difficult demands of the woodcarver’s ability, and as Christmas approaches, the three struggle to come to terms with each other, their painful memories and the process of putting their unhappiness behind them.

Short Circuit (1986)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Guttenberg, Steve | Stevens, Fisher | Sheedy, Ally | Pendleton, Austin | Bailey, G. W. | Brian McNamara
Directors: Badham, John
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Number 5, one of a group of experimental military robots, undergoes a sudden transformation after being struck by lightning. He develops self-awareness, consciousness, and a fear of the reprogramming that awaits him back at the factory. With the help of a young woman, Number 5 tries to evade capture and convince his creator that he has truly become alive.

Enchanted (2007)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Adams, Amy | Marsden, James | Menzel, Idina | Sarandon, Susan | Dempsey, Patrick | Spall, Timothy | Covey, Rachel | Ivers, Samantha | Servitto, Matt | Siravo, Joseph | Conlin, Michaela | Bennett, Jeff | Lima, Emma Rose | Dunn, Teala
Directors: Lima, Kevin
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In an animated fairy tale world, a young girl meets and falls in love with the handsome prince of her dreams. News of this romance upsets the prince’s mother, the evil queen, who uses her black magic to send the girl hurtling out of the animated world into the one place in the universe where there is no true love: modern day Manhattan. The now-real girl has to survive in New York City and find her way home again to her true love.

Kicking & Screaming (2005)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Ferrell, Will | Duvall, Robert | Ditka, Mike | Walsh, Kate | Vander, Musetta | McLaughlin, Dylan | Hutcherson, Josh | Lawrence, Steven Anthony | Bergman, Jeremy | Cho, Elliott | Walker, Erik | McKinney, Dallas | Liotti, Francesco | Ruggiero, Alessandro | Fine, Sammy
Directors: Dylan, Jesse
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Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father’s competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids’ soccer team, and soon finds that he’s also taking on his father’s dysfunctional way of relating…

Sandlot, The (1993)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Guiry, Tom | Vitar, Mike | Renna, Patrick | Leopardi, Chauncey | York, Marty | Adams, Brandon Quintin | Gelt, Grant | Obedzinski, Shane | DiMattia, Victor | Leary, Denis | Allen, Karen | Jones, James Earl | Shelton, Marley | Muller, Herb | Zacapa, Daniel
Directors: Evans, David M.
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Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing, and soon he’s part of the local baseball buddies. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the desirous lifeguard at the local pool, the snooty rival ball team, and the travelling fair. Beyond the fence at the back of the sandlot menaces a legendary ball-eating dog called The Beast, and the kids inevitably must deal with him.

Bee Movie (2007)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Seinfeld, Jerry | Zellweger, Renée | Broderick, Matthew | Warburton, Patrick | Goodman, John | Rock, Chris | Bates, Kathy | Levinson, Barry | King, Larry | Liotta, Ray | Sting | Winfrey, Oprah | Miller, Larry | Mullally, Megan | Torn, Rip
Directors: Hickner, Steve
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Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry’s life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue us.