Fly Away Home (1996)
Adventure | Drama | Family
The soaring adventure of a 13-year-old girl and her estranged father who learn what family is all about when they adopt an orphaned flock of geese and teach them to fly! Starring Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin and Dana Delaney.
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany
Director: Carroll Ballard
Thumbelina (1994)
Animation | Family | Fantasy
Hans Christian Andersen's heartwarming tale about a thumbsized princess comes to vivid life. A wisp of a girl named Thumbelina is born inside a tulip. Although her stature is small, her adventures are fantastic and bigger than life.
Starring: Jodi Benson, Gary Imhoff, Gino Conforti, Barbara Cook
Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Fireproof (2008)
Drama | Family | Romance
At work, inside burning buildings, Capt. Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter's adage: Never leave your partner behind. At home, in the cooling embers of his marriage, he lives by his own rules. After seven years of marriage, Caleb and Catherine Holt have drifted so far apart that Catherine wishes she had never married. Neither one understands the pressures the other faces–he as firefighter and she as the public relations director of a hospital. Regular arguments over jobs, finances, housework, and outside interests have readied them both to move on to something with more sparks. As the couple prepares to enter divorce proceedings, Caleb's father challenges his son to commit to a 40-day experiment he calls 'The Love Dare.' Wondering if it's even worth the effort, Caleb agrees, but more for his father's sake more than for his marriage. When Caleb discovers the book's daily challenges are tied into his parents' newfound faith, his already limited interest is further dampened. While trying to stay true to his promise, Caleb becomes frustrated time and again. He finally asks his father, 'How am I supposed to show love to somebody who constantly rejects me?' When his father explains that this is the love God shows to us, Caleb makes a life- changing commitment to love God. And–with God's help–he begins to understand what it means to truly love his wife. But is it too late to fireproof his marriage? His job is to rescue others. Now Caleb Holt is ready to face his toughest job ever–rescuing his wife's heart.
Starring: Kirk Cameron, Erin Bethea, Ken Bevel, Harris Malcolm, Jason McLeod, Stephen Dervan
Director: Alex Kendrick
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
Family | Musical | Romance
The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters. Seventeen-year-old Esther has fallen in love with John, who has just moved in next door. He however, barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transferred to a nice position in New York, which means that the family has to leave St. Louis and the 1903 St. Louis Fair.
Starring: Judy Garland, Mary Astor, Leon Ames, Lucille Bremer, Margaret O'Brien
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Tornado and the Kalahari Horse Whisperer (2009)
Drama | Family
A burdened young man finds a troubled horse and contacts a South African horse whisperer for help. The horse whisperer leads the pair down a path of redemption where they heal one other. Inspired by actual events.
Starring: Joanie Combrink, Danny Keogh, Quentin Krog
Director: Regardt van den Bergh
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The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Mystery
Tintin's first encounter with Captain Haddock and the discovery of a clue to the treasure and sunken ship commanded by the captain's ancestor Sir Francis Haddock. But someone else is in also search of the ship and the pair seek protection from a former thief as they set out to find the lost treasure.
Starring: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig
Director: Steven Spielberg
Princess and the Pony (Video 2011)
Family
A young princess raised in the lap of luxury feels like a fish out of water after leaving home to live with her eccentric aunt in America. Her transition into her new life is made a bit easier, however, by the friendship she shares with a very special pony. When a malevolent carnival owner kidnaps the pony, the race is on to reunite the princess with the one friend who stuck with her through thick and thin.
Starring: Fiona Perry, Bill Oberst Jr., Bobbi Jo Lathan
Director: Rachel Goldenberg
Runaway Vacation / RV / RV: Runaway Vacation (2006)
Adventure | Comedy | Family
The Munros are a typically U.S. dysfunctional family, complete with rebellious, uncommunicative offspring and baffled parents. Patriarch Bob (Robin Williams) would like to remedy the situation before his son and daughter instant-message their parents out of their lives. Bob rents a motor home to take the clan on vacation but soon finds that camping and togetherness can be hazardous to one's health.
Starring: Robin Williams, Jeff Daniels, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth, Joanna Levesque
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Tarzan (1999)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Romance
The adventures of an orphaned infant raised by a family of gorillas and ultimately accepted as one of their own. As Tarzan matures into a young man with all the instincts of a jungle animal and the physical prowess of an athletic superstar, his life changes forever when he finally meets other humans, with whom he feels an immediate and irrestible bond.
Starring: Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver
Director: Chris Buck, Kevin Lima
War of the Buttons / La guerre des boutons (2011)
Family
1960. The thrilling battles waged by a band of kids from two rival villages in the southern French countryside.
Starring: Eric Elmosnino, Mathilde Seigner, Fred Testot, Alain Chabat, Vincent Bres
Director: Yann Samuell
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The Call of the Wild (1972)
Adventure | Family
A house dog is abducted and brought to the north as a sled dog.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Michèle Mercier, Raimund Harmstorf, Maria Rohm, Friedhelm Lehmann
Director: Ken Annakin
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)
Adventure | Animation | Family
Pocahontas sets of on a journey to England with Meeko, Flit, and Percy. Hearing rumors of John Smith's death, Pocahontas tries to prevent war and battle.
Starring: Irene Bedard, Donal Gibson, Jim Cummings, Linda Hunt, David Ogden Stiers
Director: Tom Ellery, Bradley Raymond
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Pocahontas (1995)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | History | Musical | Romance
Capt. John Smith leads a rag-tag band of English sailors & soldiers to the New World to plunder its riches for England (or, more precisely, for Governor Ratcliffe, who comes along for the ride). Meanwhile, in this "New World," Chief Powhatan has pledged his daughter, Pocahontas, to be married to the village's greatest warrior. Pocahontas, however, has other ideas. She has seen a vision of a spinning arrow, a vision she believes tells her change is coming. Her life does indeed change when the English ship lands near her village. Between Ratcliffe, who believes the "savages" are hiding the gold he expected to be plentiful, and Powhatan, who believes these pale newcomers will destroy their land, Smith and Pocahontas have a difficult time preventing all-out war, and saving their love for each other.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Christian Bale, Irene Bedard, David Ogden Stiers
Director: Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg
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The Retrievers (2001)
Comedy | Family
Soon after the Lowry Family – Tom, his wife Karen, and their two children, Liz and Widdy – leave the big city and move to the small Northern California town of Placerville, they are 'adopted' by a very clever, yet lovable, stray golden retriever – Pilot. It's not long before they discover that Pilot is pregnant. The Lowry family, and especially Liz and Widdy, grow very close to the puppies during their weaning period. But Tom makes it clear that, like most families, they must give away the puppies after they've been weaned. It's particularly hard on Liz and Widdy, but they manage to give all the puppies away, and it's funny and fascinating to see who shows up at the Lowry residence to adopt a puppy.
Starring: Robert Hays, Mel Harris, Alan Rachins, Betty White, Robert Wagner
Director: Paul Schneider
Bicentennial Man (1999)
Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions.
Starring: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Oliver Platt, Kiersten Warren
Director: Chris Columbus
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Doctor Dolittle is a world-renowned veterinarian who speaks a wide array of animal languages. He sets off from his home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England, in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. In so doing, he and his friends meet such exotic creatures as the Pushme-Pullyu and the Giant Moon Moth. This musical is the source of the hit song, "If I Could Talk To The Animals."
Starring: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Richard Attenborough, Anthony Newley, Peter Bull
Director: Richard Fleischer
Fred Claus (2007)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Fred Claus has lived his entire life in his brother's very large shadow. Fred tried, but could hardly live up to the example set by the younger Nicholas, who was just a perfect, well, saint. True to form, Nicholas grew up to be the model of giving, while Fred became the polar opposite: a fast-talking repo man who's run out of luck and money. Over Mrs. Claus' objections, Nicholas agrees to help his brother on one condition: that he come to the North Pole and earn the money he needs by working in Santa's Toy Shop. The trouble is that Fred isn't exactly elf material and, with Christmas fast approaching, Fred could jeopardize the jolliest holiday of the year.
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, John Michael Higgins, Miranda Richardson, Rachel Weisz
Director: David Dobkin
We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Family
Based on a true story, Benjamin Mee is a recently-widowed father who moves his family to a beautiful estate miles outside the city. The only catch is that the estate is also a dilapidated zoo replete with 200 animals, and the purchase of the home is conditional on the new owner keeping the zoo and its entire staff. The Mee family subsequently sets out to rebuild and refurbish the zoo to its former glory, making new friends along the way.
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Matt Damon, Thomas Haden Church, Elle Fanning, Angus MacFadyen
Director: Cameron Crowe
Chak De India! (2007)
Drama | Family
Kabir Khan lives a middle-class lifestyle along with his widowed mom in Delhi, India, and is the Captain of the Indian men's hockey team. He fails to score at the last tournament resulting in Pakistan winning the World Cup amidst allegations that he was more inclined toward his opponents due to his religion. Kabir and his mom move away and virtually disappear for seven years. Thereafter Kabir surfaces to be a Coach for the women's hockey team, consisting of 16 players from all over India, some of who do not communicate well. Kabir's disciplinarian style ends up offending the players, lead by the militant Bindia Naik, who decide not to participate unless he resigns amidst allegations that he is having an affair with soon to-be married Vidya Sharma, who he appoints as the new Captain. Things change after a brawl with eve-teasers at the local McDonald's, the girls accept Kabir…
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan
Director: Shimit Amin
Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury (2011)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Short
As the village of Berk prepares for its winter holiday, the resident dragons all inexplicably fly away.
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Craig Ferguson
Director: Tom Owens
