Family movies

Time Bandits (1981)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Cleese, John | Connery, Sean | Holm, Ian | Palin, Michael | Richardson, Ralph | Vaughan, Peter | Warner, David | Rappaport, David | Baker, Kenny | Dixon, Malcolm | Edmonds, Mike | Purvis, Jack | Ross, Tiny | Warnock, Craig | Daker, David
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A young boy’s wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness where they confront Evil.

Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | Germany | USA
Actors: Van Dien, Casper | Waddington, Steven | Ntshona, Winston | Seiphemo, Rapulana | Roberts, Ian | Taylor, Sean | De Villiers, Gys | Savadier, Russel | Buckby, Paul | Meas, Zane | Berk, Barry | Gritten, Michael | Cassar, Dimitri | Caprari, Tony | Wustman, Kurt
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On the eve of his wedding, John Clayton, Lord of Greystoke (better known as Tarzan), receives a message from the witch doctor Mugambe that his homeland is in danger. It turns out that a treasure hunter named Ravens is searching for the lost city of Opar, and is destroying the jungle and desecrating the villagers’ burial grounds in the process. Only Tarzan can stop Ravens and set things right in the African jungle, but will Jane stand for her fiance being away for so long?

College Road Trip (2008)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Lawrence, Martin | LeFevre, Adam | Jones III, Eugene | Grabeel, Lucas | Schlein, Matthew | Draper, Eshaya | Sasso, Will | Meyers, Josh | Ross, Lonny | Osmond, Donny | Kordula, Kristian | Mele, Nicholas Leiter | Kolotouros, Jason | Gannascoli, Joseph R. | Hessler, Chad
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When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father also decides to accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and narrow.

Karate Kid, The (1984)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Macchio, Ralph | Morita, Pat | Kove, Martin | Zabka, William | Thomas, Ron | Garrison, Rob | McQueen, Chad | O'Dell, Tony | Juarbe, Israel | Bassett, William | Scott, Larry B. | Avalon, Frank Burt | Fishman, Jeff | Daly, Ken | Fridley, Tom
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Daniel is new in town, and is getting picked on by the local bullies, who all are adept in karate. Determined to stick up for himself, Daniel begins to teach himself karate, only to discover that the caretaker at his apartment seems to be a grand master in karate. Agreeing to teach Daniel, Mr. Miyagi shows Daniel that there is more to karate than violence, and perhaps the best way to solve the problem he has with the bullies is in the All Valley Karate Championship.

Borrowers, The (1997)

Monday, June 30th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Goodman, John | Williams, Mark | Broadbent, Jim | Felton, Tom | Pickard, Raymond | Pierce, Bradley | Gillett, Aden | Laurie, Hugh | Dunford, Andrew | Goody, Bob | Monckton, Patrick | Ward, Dick | Yiasoumi, George | Winter, Alex | Hewitt, Michael
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The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, “borrowing” such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.

Nim’s Island (2008)

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Butler, Gerard | Carman, Michael | Brady, Mark | Simcoe, Anthony | Baker, Christopher | Joyce, Maddison | Callan, Peter | Butler, Russell | Gibson, Colin | Probets, Bryan | Nason, Andrew | Bellette, Tony | Dornan, Jeff | Laga'aia, Jay | Walton, John
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A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she’s reading. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world’s greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim’s father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra. Now they must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer Nim’s Island.

Spiderwick Chronicles, The (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Highmore, Freddie | Nolte, Nick | Strathairn, David | Rogen, Seth | Short, Martin | McCarthy, Andrew | Fennell, Tod | Lavalley, Jeremy | Jones, Tyler Patrick | Switzer, Kyle
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Once upon a time, upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames it all on Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what’s really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and of the creatures that inhabit it.

MirrorMask (2005)

Monday, June 23rd, 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)

Monday, June 23rd, 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)

Monday, June 23rd, 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.