Category Archives: Family
Aladdin
Release 2019
Genre Adventure, Comedy, Family
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Director: Guy Ritchie
Writers: John August, Guy Ritchie
Stars: Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6139732/
A kind-hearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.
Descendants 3
Release 2019
Genre Adventure, Family, Musical
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Director: Kenny Ortega
Writers: Josann McGibbon, Sara Parriott
Stars: Cameron Boyce, Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8022928/
The teenagers of Disney's most infamous villains return to the Isle of the Lost to recruit a new batch of villainous offspring to join them at Auradon Prep.
Dumbo
Release 2019
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Tim Burton
Writers: Ehren Kruger, Helen Aberson, Harold Pearl
Stars: Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3861390/
A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
Storm Boy
Release 2019
Genre Adventure, Drama, Family
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Director: Shawn Seet
Writers: Justin Monjo, Colin Thiele
Stars: Jai Courtney, Geoffrey Rush, Chantal Contouri
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3340446/
When Michael Kingley, a successful retired businessman starts to see images from his past that he can't explain, he's forced to remember his childhood and how, as a boy, he rescued and raised an extraordinary orphaned pelican, Mr Percival.
A Boy Called Sailboat
Release 2018
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Director: Cameron Nugent
Writer: Cameron Nugent
Stars: J.K. Simmons, Jake Busey, Noel Gugliemi
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2201211/
A Hispanic family find hope in their extraordinary son named Sailboat when a personal gesture awakens a global desire. Armed with a "little guitar", Sailboat leads an offbeat cast into the miraculous story of the greatest secret never told.
The Kid Who Would Be King
Release 2019
Genre Action, Adventure, Family
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Director: Joe Cornish
Writer: Joe Cornish
Stars: Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Denise Gough, Dean Chaumoo
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6811018/
A band of kids embark on an epic quest to thwart a medieval menace.
A Dog's Way Home
Release 2019
Genre Adventure, Drama, Family
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Director: Charles Martin Smith
Writers: W. Bruce Cameron, Cathryn Michon
Stars: Ashley Judd, Jonah Hauer-King, Edward James Olmos
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7616798/
A female dog travels four hundred miles in search of her owner throughout a Colorado wilderness.
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Release 2019
Genre Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Mike Mitchell
Writers: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Matthew Fogel, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Bob Kane, Bill Finger, William Moulton Marston
Stars: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3513498/
It's been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: Lego Duplo invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild.
Mary Poppins Returns
Release 2018
Genre Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
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Director: Rob Marshall
Writers: David Magee, Rob Marshall, John DeLuca, P.L. Travers
Stars: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5028340/
Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Release 2018
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy
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Director: David Yates
Writers: J.K. Rowling
Stars: Johnny Depp, Kevin Guthrie, Carmen Ejogo
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4123430/
In an effort to thwart Grindelwald's plans of raising pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings, Albus Dumbledore enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, though he's unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.