Family movies

The Errand of Angels (2008)

Monday, January 25th, 2010
Genres: Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Chambers, Erin | Emmers, Rachel | Peyitch, Vlasto | Munns, Ashley | Schwarz, Bettina
Directors: Vuissa, Christian
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A wide-eyed sister missionary arrives in Austria to begin her 18-month-long mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Despite having to make a few cultural adjustments, Sister Taylor meets every challenge with optimism. Her enthusiasm to share the Gospel makes her indomitable, until she finds herself with an abrasive companion whom she doesn’t understand and doesn’t particularly like. This challenge, along with the ordinary vicissitudes of missionary life begin to wear on her, and thus in the process of sharing the Gospel, Sister Taylor finds herself gaining a better understanding of its key precepts: faith, repentance, forgiveness, and charity.

The Hobbit (1977)

Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bean, Orson | Boone, Richard | Conried, Hans | Huston, John | Preminger, Otto | Ritchard, Cyril | Theodore, Brother | Frees, Paul | DeLeon, Jack | Messick, Don
Directors: Bass, Jules
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Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit was just minding his own business, when his occasional visitor Gandalf the Wizard drops in one night. One by one, a whole group of dwarves drop in, and before he knows it, Bilbo has joined their quest to reclaim their kingdom, taken from them by an evil dragon named Smaug. The only problem is that Gandalf has told the dwarves that Bilbo is an expert burglar, but he isn’t….

My Neighbour Totoro (1988)

Monday, January 18th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Japan
Actors: Hidaka, Noriko | Sakamoto, Chika | Itoi, Shigesato | Shimamoto, Sumi | Kitabayashi, Tanie | Takagi, Hitoshi | Maruyama, Yûko | Washio, Machiko | Suzuki, Reiko | Hirose, Masashi | Amagasa, Toshiyuki | Chiba, Shigeru | Tatsuta, Naoki | Tarako | Nishimura, Tomohiro
Directors: Miyazaki, Hayao
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Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures.

Alice in Wonderland (1985)

Friday, January 15th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Beaumont, Kathryn | Wynn, Ed | Haydn, Richard | Holloway, Sterling | Colonna, Jerry | Felton, Verna | O'Malley, J. Pat | Thompson, Bill | Angel, Heather | Kearns, Joseph | Grey, Larry
Directors: Geronimi, Clyde
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Classic tale of a girl named Alice who follows a white rabbit down a hole into Wonderland, where she can change sizes by eating and drinking and animals talk. After escaping the disturbing Queen of Hearts, she finds that she has ended up on the other side of the looking glass in Looking Glass Land and that there is a mind-created Jabberwocky after her. With the advice of a wise owl and royal chess pieces on her mind, she ventures home, vowing to grow up in this two-part movie which remains most faithful to the original stories written by Lewis Carroll.

Star Kid (1997)

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Mazzello, Joseph | Gilliland, Richard | Bohrer, Corinne | Daniels, Alex | Simmrin, Joey | Simpson, Brian | Levitch, Ashlee | McGee, Jack | Burghardt, Arthur | Masterson, Danny | Eckstrom, Lauren | Weatherup, Christine | Adachi, Yumi | Smego, Alissa Ann | Kronenberg, Fred
Directors: Coto, Manny
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Shy seventh-grader Spencer Griffith’s life changes when the meteor falls into local junkyard and he finds a Cybersuit - the wise and strong robot from another galaxy. Spencer puts Cybersuit on and becomes a different kind of guy.

Dudley Do-Right (1999)

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Fraser, Brendan | Parker, Sarah Jessica | Molina, Alfred | Idle, Eric | Prosky, Robert | Rocco, Alex | Kehler, Jack | Mustillo, Louis | Yesso, Don | Rees, Jed | von Hoffman, Brant | Burton, Corey | Christopher, Dyllan | Yarman, Ashley | Bergman, Jeremy
Directors: Wilson, Hugh
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Based on the 60’s-era cartoon of the same name. Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a phony gold rush by seeding the river with nuggets. Can this well-meaning (though completely incompetent) Mountie stop Whiplash’s evil plan?

Three Investigators and the Secret of Terror Castle, The (2009)

Monday, January 11th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Family | Mystery
Countries: Germany
Actors: Miller, Chancellor | Price, Nick | Monaghan, Cameron | Kemp, Anette | Faulkner, James | Pienaar, Jonathan | Milberg, Axel | Bremermann, Julia
Directors: Baxmeyer, Florian
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This family-oriented German language mystery continues the exploits of The Three Investigators, Justas Jonas (Chancellor Miller), Peter Shaw (Nick Price) and Bob Andrews (Cameron Monaghan), a clique of young men glimpsed previously in 2008’s Three Investigators and the Secret of Skeleton Island. This time around, Justas’s parents have tragically died, but his mother and father left behind a trail of clues. The boys duly follow the path, which leads them to California and the heart of the formidable Terror Castle - a spooky old structure that conceals a secret beyond their wildest imaginations.

Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Bennett, Alex | Binkley, Gregg | Collins, Skoti | Cross, David | Dew, Marty | Drake, Aaron | Dubowsky, Adam | Eaton, Brando | Gubler, Matthew Gray | Joon, Lanny | Lee, Jason | Levi, Zachary | Long, Justin | McCartney, Jesse | Schmidt, Kevin G.
Directors: Thomas, Betty
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Pop sensations Alvin, Simon and Theodore end up in the care of Dave Seville’s twenty-something nephew Toby (Levi). The boys must put aside music superstardom to return to school, and are tasked with saving the school’s music program by winning the $25,000 prize in a battle of the bands. But the Chipmunks unexpectedly meet their match in three singing chipmunks known as The Chipettes -? Brittany, Eleanor and Jeanette. Romantic and musical sparks are ignited when the Chipmunks and Chipettes square off.

That Darn Cat (1997)

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Genres: Action | Comedy | Family | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Ricci, Christina | Doug, Doug E. | Jones, Dean | Dzundza, George | Boyle, Peter | McKean, Michael | Armstrong, Bess | Cannon, Dyan | Ratzenberger, John | Cavanagh, Megan | Parsons, Estelle | Schull, Rebecca | Wilson, Thomas F. | Haley, Brian | Lawrence, Mark Christopher
Directors: Spiers, Bob
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In a small Massachusetts town, two bumbling criminals mistakenly kidnap a maid, thinking her to be the wife of a prominent businessman. D.C., short for Darn Cat, is an alley cat who, while looking for his nightly snack, stumbles upon the kidnap victim, bound and gagged in a shed. The kidnap victim scratches a plea for help on the back of her wristwatch and puts it around the cat’s neck. Patti finds the watch and links it to the missing maid. Playing amateur detective, she enlists the aid of an FBI agent, Zeke, who has been assigned to the case. Patti and Zeke follow D.C. through tight openings to track down the captive.

Old Yeller (1957)

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: McGuire, Dorothy | Parker, Fess | York, Jeff | Connors, Chuck | Washburn, Beverly | Kirk, Tommy | Corcoran, Kevin
Directors: Stevenson, Robert
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Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860’s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog. After a series of scrapes involving raccoons, snakes, bears and all manner of animals, Travis grows to love and respect Old Yeller, who comes to have a profound effect on the boy’s life.