Family movies

Secret Garden, The (1993)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Maberly, Kate | Prowse, Heydon | Knott, Andrew | Smith, Maggie | Crossley, Laura | Lynch, John | Sparrow, Walter | Jacob, Irène | Baker, Frank | Hill, Valerie | Pickering, Andrea | Moreton, Peter | Spreckley, Arthur | Bruce, Colin | Singh, Parsan
Directors: Holland, Agnieszka
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After losing her self-indulging parents in an earthquake, a bitter young girl named Mary Lennox is sent to live in England with her reclusive Uncle. Eventually she discovers her bedridden cousin and a ’secret garden’ that once belonged to her deceased aunt. With the help of her cousin, the kindly Dikon, and a little ‘magic’, can Mary find a way to bring love back to her family?

Jungle Book, The (1994)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Lee, Jason Scott | Elwes, Cary | Headey, Lena | Neill, Sam | Cleese, John | Flemyng, Jason | Kalipha, Stefan | Donachie, Ron | Agarwal, Anirudh | Tahir, Faran | Naegeli, Sean | Wolff, Joanna | Walker, Liza | Robertson, Rachel | Morse, Natalie
Directors: Sommers, Stephen
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A faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale of Mowgoli the jungle boy who is raised by wolves after being lost when a tiger attacked an encampment and killed his father. Years later he finds himself re-united with his childhood love Kitty and back in the “civilization” of Colonial India which he finds far less civilized then his jungle haunts. The search for a lost treasure shows who the truly civilized members of society are.

MirrorMask (2005)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Barry, Jason | Brydon, Rob | Fry, Stephen | Hamilton, Andy | Harvey, Simon | Henry, Lenny | Llewellyn, Robert | Robson, Nik | Allen, Rick | Schofield, Simon | Tate, Mark | Thompson, Richard | Thompson, Robin | Ballamy, Iain | Batchelor, Chris
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister.

American Tail: Fievel Goes West, An (1991)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Glasser, Phillip | Stewart, James | Yohn, Erica | Cavadini, Cathy | Persoff, Nehemiah | DeLuise, Dom | Irving, Amy | Cleese, John | Lovitz, Jon | Angel, Jack | McGowan, Mickie | Bara, Fausto | Moss, Larry | Bonta, Vanna | Pegram, Nigel
Directors: Nibbelink, Phil
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Some time after the Mousekewitz’s have settled in America, they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eager to try another home out in the west, where they are promised that mice and cats live in peace. Unfortunately, the one making this claim is an oily con artist named Cat R. Waul who is intent on his own sinister plan. Unaware of this, the Mousekewitz’s begin their journey west, while their true cat friend, Tiger, follows intent on following his girlfriend gone in the same direction.

RocketMan (1997)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Harland | Lundy, Jessica | Sadler, William | DeMunn, Jeffrey | Pickens Jr., James | Lake, Don | Onorati, Peter | Bridges, Beau | Jenkins, William Arthur | Farmer, Ken | Boyd, Blake | Kaplan, Brandon | Whitehead, Paxton | Armstrong, Don | West, Pamela
Directors: Gillard, Stuart
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Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there.

Fantasia/2000 (1999)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Stokowski, Leopold | Grierson, Ralph | Battle, Kathleen | Martin, Steve | Perlman, Itzhak | Jones, Quincy | Midler, Bette | Jones, James Earl | Jillette, Penn | Teller | Levine, James | Lansbury, Angela | Allwine, Wayne | Anselmo, Tony | Taylor, Russi
Directors: Algar, James
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In this update of Disney’s masterpiece film mixture of animation and music, new interpretations of great works of music are presented. It begins with an abstract battle of light and darkness set to the music of Beethoveen’s Fifth Symphony. Then we see the adventures of a Humpback Whale calf and his pod set to “The Pines of Rome.” Next is the humourous story of several lives in 1930’s New York City, scored with “Rhapsody in Blue.” Following is a musical telling of the fairy tale, “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” set to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Then a goofy Flamingo causes havoc in his flock with his yo-yo to the tune of the finale of “Carnival of the Animals.” This is followed by the classic sequence from the original film, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” starring Mickey Mouse and followed by “Pomp and Circumstance” starring Donald Duck as a harried assistant to Noah on his Ark. Finally, we see the awesome tale of the life, death and renewal of a forest in a sequence featuring the composition, “The Firebird.”

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Richardson, Ralph | Holm, Ian | Fox, James | Lambert, Christopher | MacDowell, Andie | Campbell, Cheryl | Charleson, Ian | Davenport, Nigel | Farrell, Nicholas | Geoffrey, Paul | Griffiths, Richard | McRae, Hilton | Suchet, David | Wells, John | Ravinder
Directors: Hudson, Hugh
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A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D’Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The (2005)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Henley, Georgie | Keynes, Skandar | Moseley, William | Popplewell, Anna | Swinton, Tilda | McAvoy, James | Broadbent, Jim | Shah, Kiran | Cosmo, James | McIntosh, Judy | Hawthorne, Elizabeth | Kake, Patrick | Rangi, Shane | Cook, Brandon | Cook, Cassie
Directors: Adamson, Andrew
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Based on the classic novel by ‘CS Lewis’ (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor’s country home in order for protection during World War II. There they find a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. To defeat the witch, they must join forces with Aslan, the lion God of Narnia.

Black Cauldron, The (1985)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bardsley, Grant | Sheridan, Susan | Jones, Freddie | Hawthorne, Nigel | Malet, Arthur | Byner, John | Rich, Lindsay | Call, Brandon | Levinson, Gregory | Merin, Eda Reiss | Malis-Morey, Adele | Hayes, Billie | Fondacaro, Phil | Renaday, Peter | Almanzar, James
Directors: Berman, Ted
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Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers. With the aid of a stubborn princess, an exaggerating bard, and a pestering creature called Gurgi, Taran will try to save the world of Prydain from the Horned King. As the new friends face witches, elves, magic swords, and the Cauldron itself, Taran starts to learn what being a hero really means and that some things are more important than glory.

How the West Was Fun (1994)

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Genres: Family | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Olsen, Mary-Kate | Olsen, Ashley | Mull, Martin | Greene, Michele | Cassidy, Patrick | Cardinal, Ben | Pownall, Leon | Phillips, Peg | Tritter, Wes | MacCallum, Heather Lea | Johnston, Shaun | Libman, Daniel | Olsen, Elizabeth | Robbins, Jacqueline | Robbins, Joyce
Directors: Margolin, Stuart
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Twins Suzy and Jessica visit granny Natty’s dude ranch in the Wild West. The ranch has too few paying visitors and granny may have to sell the ranch to evil developer Bart unless “somebody” can help her. The twins also find the diary of their deceased mother