Fantasy movies

Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, The (2006)

Monday, December 8th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Allen, Tim | Mitchell, Elizabeth | Lloyd, Eric | Reinhold, Judge | Crewson, Wendy | Breslin, Spencer | Mumy, Liliana | Short, Martin | Ann-Margret | Arkin, Alan | Breslin, Abigail | LaFleur, Art | Tyler, Aisha | Pollak, Kevin | Thomas, Jay
Directors: Lembeck, Michael
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Santa’s got problems: it’s a few days before Christmas and production lags, Mrs. Claus is about to give birth and wants family time, and Jack Frost (tired of second billing) is on probation under Santa’s supervision. Santa tries to support his wife by bringing her parents to the North Pole (to preserve the secret of Santa, they must think it’s Canada). Santa also brings his ex, her husband, and their daughter Lucy. Inside the toy factory, Jack makes mischief and hatches a plan to become Santa. With Santa juggling that many snow globes, something is bound to go wrong. But if things get too difficult, Santa can always exercise his option to invoke the Escape Clause. Will he?

One Magic Christmas (1985)

Monday, December 8th, 2008
Genres: Family | Fantasy
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Steenburgen, Mary | Basaraba, Gary | Stanton, Harry Dean | Hill, Arthur | Harnois, Elisabeth | Magwood, Robbie | Meyrink, Michelle | Koteas, Elias | Robson, Wayne | Rubes, Jan | Polley, Sarah | Jarvis, Graham | Webber, Timothy | Thompson, Joy | Friesen, John
Directors: Borsos, Phillip
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Gideon (Harry Dean Stanton), a Christmas angel, is sent, by Santa, to help Ginny Grainger (Mary Steenburgen). Ginny is a cynic, and she hates Christmas. She and her family (husband, Jack and two kids, Caleb and Abbie) have fallen on hard times, making it even harder to believe in anything that can’t be seen. With help from Abbie (Elisabeth Harnois), and a trip to see Santa Claus himself, can Gideon find a way to make Ginny believe again?

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.

Serendipity (2001)

Friday, December 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Cusack, John | Beckinsale, Kate | Lavine, Lilli | Guarino Jr., Michael | Alshawish, Abdul | Talman, Ann | Bock, Crystal | Bruce, Stephen | Sparrow, David | Gerbrandt, Gary | Piven, Jeremy | Moynahan, Bridget | Blumberg, Kate | Payne, Ron | Bennett, Marcia
Directors: Chelsom, Peter
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Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas met while shopping for gloves in New York. Though buying for their respective lovers, the magic was right and a night of Christmas shopping turned into romance. Jon wanted to explore things further but Sara wasn’t sure their love was meant to be. They decided to test fate by splitting up and seeing if destiny brought them back together… Many years later, having lost each other that night, both are engaged to be married. Still, neither can shake the need to give fate one last chance to reunite them. Jon enlists the help of his best man to track down the girl he can’t forget starting at the store where they met. Sara asks her new age musician fiance for a break before the wedding and, with her best friend in tow, flies from California to New York hoping destiny will bring her soulmate back. Near-misses and classic Shakespearean confusion bring the two close to meeting a number of times but fate will have the final word on whether it was meant to be.

Scrooged (1988)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Murray, Bill | Allen, Karen | Forsythe, John | Glover, John | Goldthwait, Bob | Johansen, David | Kane, Carol | Mitchum, Robert | Phillips, Nicholas | Pollard, Michael J. | Woodard, Alfre | King, Mabel | Murray, Joel | Farr, Jamie | Goulet, Robert
Directors: Donner, Richard
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Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Frank’s childhood wasn’t a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn’t really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises he must change.

Back to Gaya (2004)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | Spain | UK
Actors: Stewart, Patrick | Watson, Emily | Wrage, Glenn | Mariot, Alan | Saker, Bob | King, Lorelei | Robbins, Kate | Guerrasio, John | Pepper, Reed | Schwab, John | Lander, Stephan | Lössl, Claudia | Kyrianos, Dimitri | Russell, Dan | Herbig, Michael
Directors: Krawinkel, Lenard Fritz
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The beautiful world of Gaya is home to a community of creatures, known as the Snurks, who are much smaller than humans, but who have an uncanny resemblance to them. But the Snurks are facing imminent danger. Someone has stolen the magic stone called Dalamite without which this world is doomed. Two Snurks named Boo and Zino embark on a dangerous mission to track down and recover the stone. As they attempt to find the stone, their journey takes them into another world that is both strange and frightening!

*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.

10th Kingdom, The (2000)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Williams, Kimberly | Cohen, Scott | Larroquette, John | Wiest, Dianne | Manheim, Camryn | Ann-Margret | O'Neill, Ed | Hauer, Rutger | Lewis, Dawnn | O'Gorman, Hugh | Lapaine, Daniel | Birkett, Jeremiah | Davis, Warwick | Thomson, Kim | Whybrow, Lucy
Directors: Wise, Herbert | Carson, David
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Two centuries after Snow White and Cinderella had their adventures, the Nine Kingdoms ready themselves for the coronation of Prince Wendel, Snow White’s grandson, to the throne of the Fourth Kingdom. But an evil once-queen has freed herself from prison, and turns the prince into a golden retriever. Wendel, by means of a magic mirror, escapes into a hitherto-unknown Tenth Kingdom (modern day New York City) and meets Virginia and her father Tony. Pursued by trolls, cops, and a wolf in man’s form, the three blunder back into the Nine Kingdoms and begin their adventures to restore Wendel to his human form and throne, and find the magic mirror that will take Tony and Virginia back home, all the while unknowing that Virginia already has a connection to the Nine Kingdoms that may prove deadly before we reach Happily Ever After.

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).

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).