The Christmas Miracle of Johnathan Toomey (2007)
Family | Fantasy
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father…
Starring: Tom Berenger, Joely Richardson, Thomas Briggs
Director: Bill Clark
Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)
Drama | Family
This heartwarming true story is an U.S. adaptation of a Japanese tale about a loyal dog named Hachiko. This very special friend would accompany his master to the train station every day and return each afternoon to greet him after work. Sadly his master departs one day, passes away and never returns to the station. Hachiko faithfully returns to the same spot at the station the very next day, and every day for the next nine years to wait for his beloved master. During his daily visits, Hachiko touches the lives of many who work near and commute through the town square. He teaches the local people love, compassion and above all unyielding loyalty. Today, a bronze statue of Hachiko sits in his waiting spot outside the Shibuya station in Japan as a permanent reminder of his devotion and love.
Starring: Richard Gere, Joan Allen
Director: Lasse Hallström
Coraline (2009)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Horror
The story of a young girl who unlocks a mysterious door in her new home and enters an adventure in a parallel reality.
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French
Director: Henry Selick
Dragon Hunters / Chasseurs de dragons (2008)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Zoe is a little girl who believes in fairy tales. Not because she is naive, but because she likes fairy tales. So in order to help her uncle Lord Arnold get rid of a terrible dragon, Zoe decides she has to find some heroes. And when she meets Gwizdo and Lian-Chu–a couple of two-bit, fly-by-night dragon hunters–well what the heck, she decides that she's going to believe in them anyway!
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Philippe Nahon, Amanda Lear, Marie Drion, Jeremy Prevost, Jean-Marc Lentretien
Director: Guillaume Ivernel, Arthur Qwak
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Despicable Me (2010)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Crime | Family
Trying to outdo his main rival Vector, serial villain Gru hatches a plan to steal the moon, aided by his army of minions. About to set his dastardly plan in motion, and bristling with his arsenal of freeze-rays and sci-fi gadgetry, all goes according to plan until the arrival at his door of three little orphan girls, Margo, Agnes and Edith, in search of a father figure.
Starring: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family
The imaginative elephant Horton hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Suspecting there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community which thinks he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to help.
Starring: Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Will Arnett, Seth Rogen
Director: Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino
Robots (2005)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi
In a wondrously clanky universe populated solely by mechanical beings live memorable robots Rodney Copperbottom, a young genius inventor who dreams of helping robots everywhere; Cappy, a beautiful, dynamic and savvy bot with whom Rodney is instantly smitten; the nefarious corporate tyrant Ratchet who locks horns with Rodney; Bigweld, a master inventor who has lost his way; and a group of misfit a-bots known as the Rusties, led by Fender and Piper Pinwheeler. Fenderas head, arms, and legs routinely fall off at the most inopportune moments. As Rodney fulfills Fenderas ongoing need for repairs, the two become fast friends. Piper is Fenderas tomboy kid sister, who surprises everyone with her determination and strength.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Drew Carey
Director: Chris Wedge
The Polar Express (2004)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Eddie Deezen, Chris Coppola, Michael Jeter, Leslie Zemeckis, Nona Gaye, Peter Scolari
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Change of Plans (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Music
Sally and Jason Danville's life are turned upside down when a tragic accident suddenly names them the caretakers of four young children.
Starring: Brooke White, Joe Flanigan, Phylicia Rashad, Jayme Lynn Evans, Bobby Soto, Jakobe' Dempsey, Clarissa Suwoko
Director: John Kent Harrison
9 (2009)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi
The time is the too-near future. Powered and enabled by the invention known as the Great Machine, the world's machines have turned on mankind and sparked social unrest, decimating the human population before being largely shut down. But as our world fell to pieces, a mission began to salvage the legacy of civilization; a group of small creations was given the spark of life by a scientist in the final days of humanity, and they continue to exist post-apocalypse. With their group so few, these "stitchpunk" creations must summon individual strengths well beyond their own proportions in order to outwit and fight against still-functioning machines, one of which is a marauding mechanized beast.
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Crispin Glover, Jennifer Connelly, Elijah Wood
Director: Shane Acker
Garfield's Pet Force (2009)
Animation | Comedy | Family
Nothing in the world can make Garfield get involved in anything besides eating, until the muscular super cat Garzooka comes crashing into Cartoon World from the Comic Book universe with terrifying news. Garfield summons up the willpower to join his superhero Garzooka in a fight to save their worlds.
Starring: Gregg Berger, Cathy Cavadini, Jennifer Darling, Greg Eagles, Greg Finley, Jeff Fischer, Vanessa Marshall, David Michie
Director: Mark A.Z. Dippé
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against all logic) to build a new palace for Caesar within three months. Since all her architects are either busy otherwise or too conservative in style, this ambivalent honor falls to Edifis. He is to build the palace and be covered in gold or, if not, his fate is to be eaten by crocodiles. Edifis calls upon an old friend to help him out: The fabulous Druid Getafix from Gaul, who brews a fantastic potion that gives supernatural strength. In order to help and protect the old Druid, Asterix and Obelix accompany him on his journey to Egypt.
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Jamel Debbouze, Monica Bellucci, Alain Chabat, Claude Rich, Gérard Darmon
Director: Alain Chabat
An Invisible Sign (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Mona now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.
Starring: Jessica Alba, Bailee Madison, J.K. Simmons, Chris Messina, Sonia Braga, Blythe Auffarth
Director: Marilyn Agrelo
Christmas with the Kranks / John Grisham's Skipping Christmas (2004)
Comedy | Family
With their daughter away, her parents decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate the holidays at the last minute.
Starring: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, M. Emmet Walsh, Elizabeth Franz, Erik Per Sullivan
Director: Joe Roth
The NeverEnding Story / Die unendliche Geschichte (1984)
Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
When young Bastian borrows a mysterious, ornately-bound book, he never dreamed turning a page would draw him into a shimmering fantasy world of racing snails, hang-glider bats, soaring luckdragons, puckish elves, a Childlike Empress, the brave warrior Atreyu and a slab-faced walking quarry called a Rock Biter.
Starring: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Gerald McRaney, Deep Roy, Tilo Prückner, Moses Gunn
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove (2010)
Family
Kirra discovers a baby Orca stranded in the lagoon near her grandfather's rundown seaside amusement park. She embarks on a quest to lead Willy back to his pod.
Starring: Beau Bridges, Mike Falkow, Bindi Irwin, Darron Meyer, Jeanne Neilson, Kevin Otto
Director: Will Geiger
Bolt (2008)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
For super-dog Bolt, every day is filled with adventure, danger and intrigue – at least until the cameras stop rolling. When the canine star of a hit TV show is accidentally shipped from his Hollywood soundstage to New York City, he begins his biggest adventure yet – a cross-country journey through the real world. Armed only with the delusions that all his amazing feats and powers are real, and with the help of two unlikely traveling companions – a jaded, abandoned housecat named Mittens and TV-obsessed hamster in a plastic ball named Rhino – Bolt discovers he doesn't need superpowers to be a hero.
Starring: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell
Director: Chris Williams, Byron Howard
The Last Airbender (2010)
Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Air, Water, Earth, Fire. Four nations tied by destiny when the Fire Nation launches a brutal war against the others. A century has passed with no hope in sight to change the path of this destruction. Caught between combat and courage, Aang discovers he is the lone Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aang teams with Katara, a Waterbender, and her brother Sokka to restore balance to their war-torn world.
Starring: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbon
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Tangled (2010)
Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
The long-haired Princess Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but when she falls in love with a bandit who was passing by she must venture into the outside world for the first time to find him.
Starring: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman, M.C. Gainey
Director: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
Happy Feet (2006)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Music | Romance
In the great nation of Emperor Penguins, deep in Antarctica, you're nobody unless you can sing – which is unfortunate for Mumble, who is the worst singer in the world. He is born dancing to his own tune…tap dancing. As fate would have it, his one friend, Gloria, happens to be the best singer around. Mumble and Gloria have a connection from the moment they hatch, but she struggles with his strange "hippity- hoppity" ways. Away from home for the first time, Mumble meets a posse of decidedly un-Emperor-like penguins – the Adelie Amigos. Led by Ramon, the Adelies instantly embrace Mumble's cool dance moves and invite him to party with them. In Adelie Land, Mumble seeks the counsel of Lovelace the Guru, a crazy-feathered Rockhopper penguin who will answer any of life's questions for the price of a pebble. Together with Lovelace and the Amigos, Mumble sets out across vast landscapes and, after some epic encounters, proves that by being true to yourself, you can make all the difference in the world.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving
Director: George Miller
