Category Archives: Family
Oz the Great and Powerful
Release 2013
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Sam Raimi
Writers: Mitchell Kapner, David Lindsay-Abaire, L. Frank Baum
Stars: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, Zach Braff
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1623205/
A small-time magician is swept away to an enchanted land and is forced into a power struggle between three witches.
Free Birds
Release 2013
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Jimmy Hayward
Writers: Scott Mosier, Jimmy Hayward, David I. Stern, John J. Strauss
Stars: Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler, George Takei, Colm Meaney
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1621039/
Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history - and get turkey off the holiday menu for good.
Epic
Release 2013
Genre Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Chris Wedge
Writers: James V. Hart, William Joyce, Daniel Shere, Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember, Chris Wedge
Stars: Blake Anderson, Aziz Ansari, Allison Bills, Jim Conroy, Todd Cummings
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848537/
A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group of characters in order to save their world -- and ours.
Planes
Release 2013
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Klay Hall
Writers: John Lasseter, Klay Hall, Jeffrey M. Howard
Stars: Dane Cook, Stacy Keach, Brad Garrett, Teri Hatcher, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1691917/
A cropdusting plane with a fear of heights lives his dream of competing in a famous around-the-world aerial race.
Sleeping Beauty
Release 2014
Genre Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
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Director: Casper Van Dien
Writers: R. Dessertine, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Casper Van Dien
Stars: Michael York, Finn Jones, Grace Van Dien, Catherine Oxenberg, Casper Van Dien
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3343136/
When a young Prince and his trusted aid learn of a beautiful Princess's cursed eternal slumber, they embark on a journey to rescue her. They must battle an evil queen and legions of undead monsters before she will be free.
ParaNorman
Release 2012
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Chris Butler, Sam Fell
Writers: Chris Butler
Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1623288/
A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Release 2012
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon
Writers: Eric Darnell, Noah Baumbach
Stars: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1277953/
Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are still fighting to get home to their beloved Big Apple. Their journey takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a traveling circus, which they reinvent - Madagascar style.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Release 2008
Genre Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
Writers: Etan Cohen, Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
Stars: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479952/
The animals try to fly back to New York City, but crash-land on an African wildlife refuge, where Alex is reunited with his parents.
Madagascar
Release 2005
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
Writers: Mark Burton, Billy Frolick, Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
Stars: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351283/
Spoiled by their upbringing with no idea what wild life is really like, four animals from New York Central Zoo escape, unwittingly assisted by four absconding penguins, and find themselves in Madagascar, among a bunch of merry lemurs
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Release 2012
Genre Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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Director: Brad Peyton
Writers: Brian Gunn, Mark Gunn, Richard Outten, Jules Verne
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine, Josh Hutcherson, Luis Guzmán, Vanessa Hudgens
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397514/
Sean Anderson partners with his mom's husband on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.