Archive for the 'Family movies' Category
MirrorMask
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| Taglines: | 1: An extraordinary dream quest to rescue a world out of balance. 2: Enter A World Where Dreams Are Real |
| Plot Summary: | 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. |
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Black Cauldron, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Hidden by darkness. Guarded by witches. Discovered by a boy. Stolen by a king. Whoever owns it will rule the world. Or destroy it. 2: Seven years in the making - In the celebrated Disney tradition comes our 25th animated motion picture. |
| Plot Summary: | Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers. With the aid of a stubborn princess, an exaggerating bard, and a pestering creature called Gurgi, Taran will try to save the world of Prydain from the Horned King. As the new friends face witches, elves, magic swords, and the Cauldron itself, Taran starts to learn what being a hero really means and that some things are more important than glory. |
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Horton Hears a Who!
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| Taglines: | 1: One Elephant One World One Story 2: The Next Big Comedy Event |
| Plot Summary: | One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can’t see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home, but this gives him nothing but torment from his neighbors, who refuse to believe that anything could survive on the speck. Still, Horton stands by the motto that, “After all, a person is a person, no matter how small.” |
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King and I, The
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| Taglines: | 1: 20th Century-Fox’s crowning entertainment achievement! 2: In the complete grandeur of Cinemascope 55! Richer - Deeper - Clearer! 3: More Than You’ve Ever Seen On The Screen! 4: The Fabulous Broadway Stage Success Comes to the Screen! |
| Plot Summary: | After the death of her husband, Anna Owens moves from England to Siam with her son Louis to become a teacher for the children of the king of Siam. She finds Siamese customs to be quite different from English ones, which brings her often in conflict with the king. However, after some time they find themselves getting along much better. |
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Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
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| Plot Summary: | Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his beaming honker, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa’s sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea… |
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Game Plan, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Joe Kingman had the perfect game plan to win the championship… but first, he has to tackle one little problem. |
| Plot Summary: | An NFL quarterback living the bachelor lifestyle discovers that he has a 8-year-old daughter from a previous relationship. |
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Snow Buddies
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| Plot Summary: | Disney’s adorable talking puppies are back, and this time they venture to the frosty arctic and team up with new friends in a thrilling dogsled race across Alaska. Join your favorite pups - food-lovin’ Budderball, rappin’ B-Dawg, stylish RoseBud, mellow Buddha and messy MudBud - for more fun, more action and more excitement in a heartwarming family film about the power of teamwork and following your dreams. As Buddha says, “Sometimes the greatest journeys start accidentally.” When the going gets tough, the daring dogs have to band together with their new friends, Talon and Shasta, and muster up the courage to face the hair-raising challenges ahead. But will they have what it takes to win the race and find their way back home? This film features the voice talents of Dylan Sprouse (The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody) and Jim Belushi (According To Jim). |
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Bambi
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| Taglines: | 1: A great love story. |
| Plot Summary: | The animated story of Bambi, a young deer hailed as the ‘Prince of the Forest’ at his birth. As Bambi grows, he makes friends with the other animals of the forest, learns the skills needed to survive, and even finds love. One day, however, the hunters come, and Bambi must learn to be as brave as his father if he is to lead the other deer to safety. |
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Cheaper by the Dozen 2
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| Taglines: | 1: Same Big Family… Even Bigger Adventure. 2: This Christmas You Better Watch Out! 3: This Christmas, you better watch out! |
| Plot Summary: | Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children, headed by Eugene Levy |
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Barnyard
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| Taglines: | 1: Have a cow. 2: The Original Party Animals 3: The Secret Lives Of Animals Revealed! 4: What happens in the barn stays in the barn |
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