Family movies

Snowman, The (1982)

Monday, December 8th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Short
Countries: UK
Actors: Auty, Peter | Bowie, David | Briggs, Raymond
Directors: Jackson, Dianne
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Wordless (save for the song “Walking in the Air”) animated adventure about a young English boy who makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, only for it to come to life that night and take him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.

12 Dogs of Christmas, The (2005)

Friday, December 5th, 2008
Genres: Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Billingsley, John | Friedericy, Bonita | Hicks, Adam | Jackman, Jim | Lutes, Eric | Riehle, Richard | Sterling, Mindy | Wood, Susan | Flory, Travis T. | Mullally, Alisha | Green, Jordan-Claire | Lycette, Monique Jeanine | Burns, Chris | Howard, Charles Michael | Howard, Michael
Directors: Merrill, Kieth
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A girl who uses dogs to teach people about the true meaning of Christmas during the Depression.

Jingle All the Way (1996)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Sinbad | Hartman, Phil | Wilson, Rita | Conrad, Robert | Mull, Martin | Lloyd, Jake | Belushi, James | De La Pena, E.J. | Newman, Laraine | Chapman, Justin | Korman, Harvey | Moll, Richard | Riordan, Daniel | Deist, Jeff L.
Directors: Levant, Brian
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Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Howard Langston, a father who has promised his son that he will get anything he wants for christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, his son wants an immensely popular “Turbo Man” action figure. Howard forgets to get it, and since it’s Christmas Eve, it’s sold out everywhere. Since Howard knows he has let his son down in the past, he goes on a quest to track down a “Turbo Man” action figure, and will stop at nothing to get his son the gift that he wants.

I’ll Be Home for Christmas (1998)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Thomas, Jonathan Taylor | Biel, Jessica | LaVorgna, Adam | Cole, Gary | Gordon, Eve | Maltby, Lauren | Lauer, Andrew | O'Bryan, Sean | Boone, Lesley | Strickland, Amzie | Barish, Natalie | de la Cruz, Mark | Freeman, Kathleen | Kenny, Jack | Kushner, Celia
Directors: Sanford, Arlene
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A college student experiences difficulty in getting home for Christmas after being hazed by his friends. While struggling to get home in time for Christmas, he learns quite a bit about himself and the true meaning of the holiday.

*batteries not included (1987)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Cronyn, Hume | Tandy, Jessica | McRae, Frank | Peña, Elizabeth | Carmine, Michael | Boutsikaris, Dennis | Aldredge, Tom | Hoffman, Jane | DiSanti, John | Pankow, John | Dixon, MacIntyre | Greene, Michael | Belack, Doris | Schaal, Wendy | Santana, José Angel
Directors: Robbins, Matthew
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A group of tenants in an apartment block are being forced to move out so that it can be demolished. The tenants are reluctant to move, so the developers hire a local gang to ‘persuade’ them to leave. Fortunately, visiting alien mechanical life-forms come to town. When they befriend the tenants, the aliens use their extraterrestrial abilities to defeat the developers.

Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas (1999)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Allwine, Wayne | Anselmo, Tony | Bennett, Jeff | Burton, Corey | Cummings, Jim | Farmer, Bill | Fleming, Shaun | Grammer, Kelsey | McDonough, Andrew | Young, Alan | Tress MacNeille | Michelle, Diane | Taylor, Russi | Winchell, April
Directors: Falkenstein, Jun
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A Christmas themed, three-part anthology-style video. The first part, “Donald Duck: Stuck on Christmas”, is essentially a retelling of _Groundhog Day (1993)_ (qv), with Huey, Dewey, and Louie reliving Christmas ad infinitum. Next is “A Very Goofy Christmas”, in which Goofy tries to overcome his son’s skepticism about Santa Claus. Finally, “Mickey & Minnie’s Gift Of The Magi” recreate the classic tale of ironic Christmas selflessness. The stories are linked together by narration by ‘Kelsey Grammer’ (qv).

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (1996)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Alexander, Jason | Bergman, Mary Kay | Burton, Corey | Cummings, Jim | Fagerbakke, Bill | Hulce, Tom | Jay, Tony | Kandel, Paul | Kimbrough, Charles | Kline, Kevin | Mollenhauer, Heidi | Moore, Demi | Pinney, Patrick | Stiers, David Ogden
Directors: Trousdale, Gary
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In 15th century Paris, Clopin the puppeteer tells the story of Quasimodo, the misshapen gentle-souled bell ringer of Notre Dame, who was nearly killed as a baby by Claude Frollo, the Minister of Justice. But Frollo was forced by the Archdeacon of Notre Dame to raise Quasimodo as his own. Now a young man, Quasimodo is hidden from the world by Frollo in the belltower of the cathedral. But during the Festival of Fools, Quasimodo, cheered on by his gargoyle friends Victor, Hugo, and Laverne, decides to take part in the festivities, where he meets the lively gypsy girl Esmeralda and the handsome soldier Phoebus. The three of them find themselves ranged against Frollo’s cruelty and his attempts to destroy the home of the gypsies, the Court of Miracles. And Quasimodo must desperately defend both Esmeralda and the very cathedral of Notre Dame.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Lansbury, Angela | Tomlinson, David | McDowall, Roddy | Jaffe, Sam | Ericson, John | Forsyth, Bruce | O'Callaghan, Cindy | Snart, Roy | Weighill, Ian | O'Shea, Tessie | Gould-Porter, Arthur | Wrigley, Ben | Owen, Reginald | Delevanti, Cyril | Traeger, Rick
Directors: Stevenson, Robert
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In August of 1940 in the English village of Pepperinge Eye, three cockney orphans are sent to live with Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury), who is studying to become an apprentice witch. When she receives a letter from the Correspondence College of Witchcraft in London, she and the children fly on a bed (by way of a magic bedknob) to London to meet the headmaster of the defunct school, Emelius Brown (David Tomlinson). At a townhouse where Mr. Brown is staying, Miss Price finds half of a book called THE SPELLS OF ASTOROTH. For the other half, they deal with a shady character known as the Bookman (Sam Jaffe).

Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, The (1999)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Clash, Kevin | Patinkin, Mandy | Williams, Vanessa | Manzano, Sonia | Orman, Roscoe | Brill, Fran | D'Abruzzo, Stephanie | Goelz, Dave | Mazzarino, Joey | Nelson, Jerry | Osbahr, Carmen | Robinson, Martin P. | Rudman, David | Spinney, Caroll | Whitmire, Steve
Directors: Halvorson, Gary
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Elmo the fuzzy little red monster wakes up one morning to stick together with his favorite fuzzy blue blanket. Elmo learns a lesson when he refuses to share his blanket with his best friend, Zoe, then loses it in Oscar’s can, where it goes all the way to Grouchland. And now for the first time ever Elmo musters all of his determination and courage and heads off on an action-packed rescue mission that plunges him into Grouch land-a place full of grouchy creatures, stinky garbage and the villainous man alive named Huxley. He asked a kind girl named Grizzy to help Elmo get back his blanket. Grizzy decided she wanted to stop helping because Huxley’s house is on the top of Mount Pickanose which is far, far away. Elmo is now on his own. All the people from Sesame Street come to Grouchland to get Elmo back.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Karloff, Boris | Ravenscroft, Thurl | Foray, June
Directors: Jones, Chuck
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Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of the nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. So disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he raids the village to steal all the Christmas things. The village is sure to have a sad Christmas this year.