Category Archives: Family
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Release 2004
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
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Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Writers: J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Richard Griffiths, Pam Ferris, Fiona Shaw, Harry Melling
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304141/
It's Harry's third year at Hogwarts; not only does he have a new "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards' Prison and is coming after Harry.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Release 2005
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
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Director: Mike Newell
Writers: Steve Kloves, J.K. Rowling
Stars: Eric Sykes, Timothy Spall, David Tennant, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330373/
Harry finds himself mysteriously selected as an under-aged competitor in a dangerous tournament between three schools of magic.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Release 2001
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Chris Columbus
Writers: J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves
Stars: Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane, Saunders Triplets, Daniel Radcliffe
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0241527/
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The Princess and the Frog
Release 2009
Genre Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
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Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Writers: Ron Clements, John Musker, Rob Edwards, Greg Erb, Jason Oremland, Don Hall, E.D. Baker, Chris Ure, Jared Stern, Dean Wellins, Will Csaklos, Ralph Eggleston
Stars: Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jennifer Cody
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780521/
A fairy tale set in Jazz Age-era New Orleans and centered on a young woman named Tiana and her fateful kiss with a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Release 2009
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
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Director: David Yates
Writers: Steve Kloves, J.K. Rowling
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Gambon, Dave Legeno, Elarica Gallacher, Jim Broadbent
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417741/
As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
Rango
Release 2011
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Gore Verbinski
Writers: John Logan, Gore Verbinski, James Ward Byrkit
Stars: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1192628/
Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.
Tangled
Release 2010
Genre Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
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Director: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard
Writers: Dan Fogelman, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Dean Wellins
Stars: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman, M.C. Gainey
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398286/
The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Release 2009
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Crime, Family
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Director: Wes Anderson
Writers: Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach
Stars: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wallace Wolodarsky
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432283/
An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Release 2009
Genre Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Writers: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Judi Barrett, Ron Barrett, Rob Greenberg
Stars: Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Bruce Campbell
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844471/
The most delicious event since macaroni met cheese. Inspired by the beloved children's book, the film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain.
The Nut Job
Release 2014
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Peter Lepeniotis
Writers: Lorne Cameron, Peter Lepeniotis, Robert Reece, Daniel Woo
Stars: Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Stephen Lang
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821658/
An incorrigibly self-serving exiled squirrel finds himself helping his former park brethren raid a nut store to survive, that is also the front for a human gang's bank robbery.