Posts Tagged ‘kids-and-family’

The Sound of Music (1965)

Friday, March 12th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Andrews | Christopher Plummer | Richard Haydn | Peggy Wood | Anna Lee | Portia Nelson | Ben Wright | Daniel Truhitte | Norma Varden | Marni Nixon | Gilchrist Stuart | Evadne Baker | Doris Lloyd | Charmian Carr | Nicholas Hammond
Directors: Robert Wise
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Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapp’s heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy.

American Tail, An (1986)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Erica Yohn | Nehemiah Persoff | Amy Green | Phillip Glasser | Christopher Plummer | John Finnegan | Will Ryan | Hal Smith | Pat Musick | Cathianne Blore | Neil Ross | Madeline Kahn | Dom DeLuise
Directors: Don Bluth
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Fievel is a young Russian mouse separated from his parents on the way to America, a land they think is without cats. When he arrives alone in the New World, he keeps up hope, searching for his family, making new friends, and running and dodging the cats he thought he’d be rid off.

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Damon | James Cromwell | Daniel Studi | Chopper Bernet | Jeff LeBeau | John Rubano | Richard McGonagle | Matt Levin | Adam Paul | Robert Cait | Charles Napier | Meredith Wells | Zahn McClarnon | Michael Horse | Donald Fullilove
Directors: Kelly Asbury
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As a wild stallion travels across the frontiers of the Old West, he befriends a young human and finds true love with a mare.

Lady and the Tramp (1955)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Peggy Lee | Barbara Luddy | Larry Roberts | Bill Thompson | Bill Baucom | Stan Freberg | Verna Felton | Alan Reed | George Givot | Dal McKennon | Lee Millar | Bill Lee | Thurl Ravenscroft | Max Smith | Bob Stevens
Directors: Clyde Geronimi
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Lady, a golden cocker spaniel, meets up with a mongrel dog who calls himself the Tramp. He is obviously from the wrong side of town, but happenings at Lady’s home make her decide to travel with him for a while. This turns out to be a bad move, as no dog is above the law.

The Polar Express (2004)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Leslie Harter Zemeckis | Eddie Deezen | Nona Gaye | Peter Scolari | Brendan King | Andy Pellick | Josh Eli | Mark Mendonca | Rolandas Hendricks | Mark Goodman | Jon Scott | Gregory Gast | Sean Scott | Gordon Hart | Michael Jeter
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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Santa Claus does not exist. Or does he? For one doubting boy (voice of Daryl Sabara and Tom Hanks), an astonishing event occurs. Late on Christmas Eve night, he lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa’s sleigh. When to his surprise, a steam engine’s roar and whistle can be heard outside his window. The conductor (voice of Tom Hanks) invites him on board to take an extraordinary journey to the North Pole with many other pajama-clad children. There, he receives an extraordinary gift only those who still believe in Santa can experience.

The Pagemaster (1994)

Monday, June 29th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Macaulay Culkin | Canan J. Howell | Alexis Kirschner | Jessica Kirschner | Guy Mansker | Brandon S. McKay | Stephen Sheehan | Ed Begley Jr. | Mel Harris | Christopher Lloyd | Patrick Stewart | Whoopi Goldberg | Frank Welker
Directors: Pixote Hunt
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A cowardly boy who buries himself in accident statistics (Maculay Kulkin) enters a library to escape a storm only to be transformed into an animated illustration by the Pagemaster (Christopher Lloyd), & work through obstacles from classic books to return to real life.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Leonard Nimoy | DeForest Kelley | James Doohan | Walter Koenig | Nichelle Nichols | George Takei | David Warner | Laurence Luckinbill | Charles Cooper | Cynthia Gouw | Todd Bryant | Spice Williams-Crosby | Rex Holman | George Murdock
Directors: William Shatner
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It’s Stardate 8454.130 and vacationing Captain Kirk faces two challenges: climbing Yosemite’s El Capitan and teaching campfire songs to Spock. But vacations are cut short when a renegade Vulcan hijacks the Enterprise, and pilots it on a journey to uncover the universe’s innermost secrets.

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jim Henson
Directors: Frank Oz
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The Muppets are back in a brand-new full-length musical comedy! After graduating college, the Muppets travel to Manhattan to have someone produce their musical “Manhattan Melodies”. When it doesn’t happen, the gang splits up. Kermit makes friends with Jenny (Juliana Donald) and Piggy is jealous, thinking that Kermit found a new girl. Now Rowlf is a vet secretary, Fozzie’s living in a cave, and Piggy is working at a hotel with her partner, but apparently they get fired and now Piggy lives next door to where Kermit works at Pete’s with Jenny. When Jenny and Kermit find producer-in-training Ronny Coleman (Lonny Price), he promises to produce their show. The gang returns to Manhattan, but after getting hit by a car in joy, Kermit gets amnesia and now finds work making ads with other frogs. When Kermit is found at Pete’s, they try to restore his memory.

Scooby-Doo! And the Legend of the Vampire (2003)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Casey Kasem | Frank Welker | Nicole Jaffe | Heather North | Jeff Bennett | Kimberly Brooks | Jennifer Hale | Tom Kenny
Directors: Scott Jeralds
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On vacation in Australia, Scooby and the gang attend a music contest held at Vampire Rock—where the legendary ‘Yowie Yahoo’ Vampire is kidnapping the musical acts, including the Hex Girls. Masquerading as heavy-metal band ‘Those Meddling Kids,’ Scooby and the others must discover the identity of the Vampire’s minions.

Chicken Run (2000)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family
Countries: UK
Actors: Phil Daniels | Lynn Ferguson | Mel Gibson | Tony Haygarth | Jane Horrocks | Miranda Richardson | Julia Sawalha | Timothy Spall | Imelda Staunton | Benjamin Whitrow | John Sharian | Jo Allen | Lisa Kay | Laura Strachan
Directors: Peter Lord
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Ginger is one of the chicken at the Tweety Egg Farm, who is capable of escaping (and desperately wants to) but is constantly being held back by her incompetent partners. One night, feeling failed and depressed after a chicken is axed, she wanders out to the gate, where she sees a rooster triumphantly flying through the air. After crashing and injuring his wing, Ginger takes him in and learns he’s Rocky Rhodes, a cocky American who enjoys freedom - in fact, he escaped from a circus when she found him. In exchange for protecting him when the circus arrives asking for him, Ginger makes a deal with Rocky that he will teach them to fly so they can escape. Taking advantage of the situation, Rocky woos the chicken, irritating Ginger “Doll-Face” and organizer Officer Fowler, formerly of the Royal Air Force, in the process. Meanwhile, the Tweetys have purchased a machine to make chicken pies out of, intending to cook every last one of them.