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Genre "Family-Oriented Adventure" Movies (showing 1 to 50 from 54 total)

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A Bug's Life (1998) Genre: Children's/Family, Fantasy, Children's Fantasy, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton. Actors: Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere, Phyllis Diller, Richard Kind, David Hyde Pierce, Joe Ranft, Denis Leary, Jonathan Harris, Madeline Kahn, Bonnie Hunt, Michael McShane, John Ratzenberger, Brad Garrett, Roddy McDowall, Edie McClurg, Alex Rocco, David Ossman, Christina Milian, Kelsey Mulrooney, Ashley Tisdale. Storyline: John Lasseter, director of Pixar's movie phenomenon Toy Story, has set new standards in computer animation with this effort, another Disney-released children's epic entitled A Bug's Life. Blending classic Disney storytelling characters and the mysterious underground world of bugs, Lasseter has created a film that can be enjoyed by all audiences, and another franchise in the process. A Bug's Life i ...

Agent Cody Banks (2003) Genre: Spy Film, Children's/Family, Spy Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Harald Zwart. Actors: Frankie Muniz, Hilary Duff, Keith David, Cynthia Stevenson, Arnold Vosloo, Daniel Roebuck, Ian McShane, Darrell Hammond, Martin Donovan, Andrew Francis, Angie Harmon, Martin Henderson, Alan C. Peterson, Judge Reinhold, Connor Widdows. Storyline: A teen learns that all the gadgets in the world can't help him overcome his awkwardness around the opposite sex in this big-budget family entertainment. In Agent Cody Banks, Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz plays a young man plucked from suburban obscurity to be trained as a CIA super-agent. His mission? Get friendly with his classmate Natalie (played by another teen TV star, Lizzie McGuir ...

Air Buddies (2006) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Animal Picture. Director: Robert Vince. Actors: Patrick Cranshaw, Richard Karn, Cynthia Stevenson, Slade Pearce, Paul Rae, Trevor Wright, Don Knotts, Michael Clarke Duncan, Josh Flitter, Abigail Breslin, Spencer Fox, Dominic Scott Kay, Skyler Gisondo, Tom Everett, Molly Shannon, Wallace Shawn, Debra Jo Rupp. Storyline: It's a litter of good, clean canine fun as Air Bud plays proud papa to five adorable puppies with a most unusual secret in this installment of the long-running film series starring Michael Clark Duncan, Richard Karn, and Don Knotts. When young pups B-Dawg, Bud-Dha, RoseBud, MudBud, and Budderball learn that their parents are in danger, they leap into action with tails wagging to rescue mom and dad ...

Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008) Genre: Children's/Family, Period Film, Family-Oriented Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Thomas Langmann, Frédéric Forestier. Actors: Clovis Cornillac, Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alain Delon, Stéphane Rousseau, Vanessa Hessler, Michael "Bully" Herbig, Santiago Segura, José Garcia, Jamel Debbouze, Jérôme Le Banner, Franck Dubosc, Zinedine Zidane, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Alexandre Astier, Tony Parker, Luca Bizzarri, Amelie Mauresmo, Elie Semoun, Paolo Kessisoglu, Bouli Lanners, Nathan Jones, Sim, Adriana Karembeu, Francis Lalanne, Michael Schumacher, Jean Todt. Storyline: Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's internationally popular cartoon characters Asterix and Obelix take on the world of athletics in this live-action comedy-adventure. It's 50 B.C., and short but wily Asterix (Clovis Cornillac) and his rotund sidekick Obelix (Gerard Depardieu) hit the road for Rome, where they hope to compete in the Olympic Games. Obelix figures he's a sure bet for a weight-lifting m ...

Baby's Day Out (1994) Genre: Children's/Family, Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure, Family-Oriented Comedy, Slapstick. Director: Patrick Read Johnson. Actors: Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Haley, Cynthia Nixon, Fred Dalton Thompson, John Neville, Matthew Glave, Jacob Joseph Worton, Brigid Duffy, Eddie Bracken, Roslyn Alexander, John Alexander, Janet Hirshenson, William Holmes, Anna Levine, Dawn Maxey, Warren Rice, Don Rimgale, Jennifer O. SayGan, Verne Troyer. Storyline: John Hughes sticks to his seemingly fool-proof formula for success in Baby's Day Out, a cross-pollination of Home Alone and a Swee' Pea cartoon. The plot seems all-too familiar: posing as baby photographers, a group of three would-be kidnappers (led by the usually outstanding character actor Joe Pantoliano) enter an unsuspecting wealthy Chicago couple's home and make off with Baby Bink after leavi ...

Barbie as the Island Princess (2007) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Greg Richardson. Actors: Storyline: The animated musical Barbie as the Island Princess stars the famous doll as Rosella. As a young girl, she is shipwrecked on an island and raised by many of the animals that inhabit the location. One day a prince discovers her and her animal family. The travel with him to his country where the group must stop an evil plan to remove the Prince from power.

Benji (1974) Genre: Adventure, Children's/Family, Animal Picture, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Joe Camp. Actors: Patsy Garrett, Allen Fiuzat, Cynthia Smith, Peter Breck, Edgar Buchanan, Frances Bavier, Higgins the Dog, Joe Camp, Terry Carter, Christopher Connelly, Tom Lester, Victor Raider-Wexler, Mark Slade, Larry Swartz, Robert Thomas, Ben Vaughn, Herb Vigran, Deborah Walley, J.D. Young, Ed DeLatte, Erwin Hearne, Katie Hearne, Don Puckett, Charles Starkey. Storyline: An instant family classic, Benji is shot mostly from the a dog's-eye view , adding even more characterization to a title character well-played by canine veteran Higgins. Benji is an intelligent homeless mutt adopted by a loving family; when the kids are kidnapped, it's the little dog to the rescue in the best tradition of bigger doggie heroes like Rin Tin Tin and Lassie. Believe it or not, Higgins ...

Bhoothnath (2008) Genre: Children's/Family, Haunted House Film, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Vivek Sharma. Actors: Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Shah Rukh Khan. Storyline: A young boy befriends a kindly ghost after moving with his family into a new house and not realizing that it is haunted. Banku and his family had no idea that their new home was already occupied, and at first Boothnath thought the family was attempting to take away his home. After a failed attempt at frightening the family away, Boothnath realizes that they wish him no harm and strikes up a close ...

Buddy (1997) Genre: Comedy Drama, Docudrama, Biography [feature], Family-Oriented Adventure, Animal Picture. Director: Caroline Thompson. Actors: Rene Russo, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Cumming, Irma P. Hall, Peter Anthony Elliott, Paul Reubens, Lynn Robertson Bruce, Peter Hurst, Mark Sealey, Michelan Sisti, Leif Tilden, Star Townshend, Rob Tygner, Mak Wilson. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Chicken Little (2005) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Mark Dindal. Actors: Zach Braff, Steve Zahn, Joan Cusack, Wallace Shawn, Adam West, Patrick Warburton, Harry Shearer, Patrick Stewart, Katie Finneran, Don Knotts, Garry Marshall, Catherine O'Hara, Amy Sedaris, Fred Willard. Storyline: An old fable gets a high-tech update in this computer-animated comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. Chicken Little (voice of Zach Braff) is an earnest young fowl living in the town of Oakley Oaks who one day starts a panic when a falling acorn drops on his head, and he warns everyone that the sky has started to collapse. Chicken Little was wrong, of course, much to the embarrassment of his father, Bu ...

Dinosaur (2000) Genre: Children's/Family, Prehistoric Fantasy, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Eric Leighton. Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere, Sam Wright, Julianna Margulies, Peter Siragusa, Joan Plowright, Della Reese. Storyline: Walt Disney Pictures redefined computer animation with this technically accomplished fantasy of prehistoric life, combining live-action backgrounds with computer-generated animals. After a pterodactyl snatches a dinosaur's egg and accidentally drops it while flying away, the egg is rescued by a family of lemurs, who keep it warm until it hatches. They raise the baby dinosaur, named Aladar, as one ...

Ed (1996) Genre: Comedy, Animal Picture, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Bill Couturie. Actors: Matt LeBlanc, Jayne Brook, Jack Warden, Bill Cobbs, Jay Caputo, Doren Fein, Denise Cheshire, Patrick Kerr, Philip Bruns, James Caviezel, Mike McGlone, Valente Rodriguez, Charlie Schlatter. Storyline: If, in the world of the movies, a dog can play basketball and a donkey can play football, why can't a chimp play baseball? That question is answered in the family comedy Ed. Jack "Deuce" Cooper (Matt LeBlanc) is a struggling baseball pitcher who has great natural talent but keeps choking under pressure. Traded to a class A minor league team, Deuce is appalled to discover his third basema ...

Eight Below (2006) Genre: Adventure, Family-Oriented Adventure, Adventure Drama. Director: Frank Marshall. Actors: Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, Jason Biggs, Gerard Plunkett, August Schellenberg, Wendy Crewson, Belinda Metz, Michael D. Adamthwaite, Apache, Daniel Bacon, Dexter Bell, Buck 65, Buddy Cain, Brendan Campbell, Garry Chalk, Chase Rucker Productions, Dino, DJ Abdel, Flapjack, Babi Floyd, Duncan Fraser, Jasmine, Carl Jasper, Damon Johnson, Koda Bear, Connor Christopher Levins, Lightning, Adrian Noble, Alexios A. Panou, A. James Ryan, Laara Sadiq, Richard Sali, Michael Simms, Malcolm Stewart, Timbalada & Os Zarabe, Troika, Dan Ziskie. Storyline: Eight brave sled dogs search for the master who is looking for a way to rescue them in this adventure drama. An American geologist (Bruce Greenwood) flies to Antarctica to participate in a project at the United States Research Base, where he teams up with arctic guide Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker) and his best friend, Cooper (Jason Biggs). The scientist soon discovers that Shepard also has eight oth ...

El Caballo Blanco (1962) Genre: Western, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Rafael Baledon. Actors: Antonio Aguilar, Sara Garcia, Luz Maria Aguilar, David Reynoso, Florencio Castello, Eleazar Garcia, Emilio Garibay, Armando Acosta, Joselito. Storyline: A mixed tortilla Western-children's adventure film, this standard tale by director Rafael Baledon features Joselito as a young boy with singing talent who arrives in Mexico only to be kidnapped by an outlaw band. The young boy is saved by a hero-cowboy (Antonio Aguilar) who also likes to sing. Before the next melody has ended, they join up with a plucky white horse who can do almost anything, and ...

Everyone's Hero (2006) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Christopher Reeve, Daniel St. Pierre, Colin Brady. Actors: Rob Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Jake T. Austin, William H. Macy, Mandy Patinkin, Raven Symone, Robert Wagner, Forest Whitaker, Brian Dennehy, Dana Reeve, Joe Torre, Robin Williams, Cherise Booth, Jesse Bronstein, Ralph Coppola, Jason Harris, Ed Helms, Ray Iannicelli, Gideon Jacobs, Richard Kind, Marcus Maurice, Amanda Parsons, Will Reeve, Ron Tippe, Conor J. White. Storyline: A young baseball fan sets out on a cross-country quest to recover Babe Ruth's stolen bat and restore his father's good name in a computer animated family adventure that shows you're never too young to be a hero. Yankee Irving (voice of Jake T. Austin) may not be the best base-runner in his neighborhood, but his love of the game is about to lead him on the adventure of a lifetime when a legendary b ...

Finding Nemo (2003) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Adventure Comedy. Director: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich. Actors: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett, Allison Janney, Austin Pendleton, Stephen Root, Vicki Lewis, Joe Ranft, Geoffrey Rush, Andrew Stanton, Elizabeth Perkins, Nicolas Bird, Bob Peterson, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana, Bruce Spence, Bill Hunter, LuLu Ebeling, Jordy Ranft, Erica Beck, Erik Per Sullivan, John Ratzenberger. Storyline: Andrew Stanton, who helped write Toy Story and Monsters, Inc., co-wrote and directed this computer-animated comedy-adventure about finding a very small fish in a very large ocean. Marlin (voice of Albert Brooks) is a more-than-slightly paranoid Clown Fish who is extremely devoted to his young son, Nemo (voice of Alexander Gould), the only survivor after an undersea predator swallowed up Nemo's mot ...

Firehouse Dog (2007) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Animal Picture. Director: Todd Holland. Actors: Josh Hutcherson, Bruce Greenwood, Dash Mihok, Steven Culp, Bill Nunn, Bree Turner, Scotch Ellis Loring, Mayte Garcia, Teddy Sears, Hannah Lochner, Arwen, Claudette Mink, Jean-Michel Frodon, Eamon Rohan, Stryder. Storyline: Hollywood's hottest canine commodity has gotten hopelessly lost after wandering away from his master, and now the former movie star has become the beacon of hope for a small-town firehouse on the verge of collapse. Rex is the dog that every child in America has fallen in love with. A pompous A-list barker whose list of perks overshadows that of even the most esteemed Hollywood actor, Rex 's fate t ...

Flight of the Navigator (1986) Genre: Children's/Family, Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Fantasy Adventure, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Randal Kleiser. Actors: Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matt Adler, Howard Hesseman, Robert Small, Albie Whitaker, Iris Acker, John Archie, Ted Bartsch, Jill Beach, Fritz Braumer, Michael Brockman, Parris Buckner, Tony Calvino, Cynthia Caquelin, Debbie Casperson, Brigid Cleary, Louis Cutolo, Kenny Davis, Gizelle Elliot, Raymond Forchion, Robert Goodman, Philip Hoelcher, Bruce Laks, Richard Liberty, Peter Lundquist, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Ryan Murray, Robyn Peterson, Rusty Pouch, Chase Randolph, Butch Raymond, Paul Reubens, Keri Rogers, Arnie Ross, Jonathan Sanger, Michael Strano, Bob Strickland, Tony Tracy. Storyline: The year is 1978: 12-year-old Joey Cramer, playing in the woods near his home, is knocked unconscious. He awakens and heads home, only to find strangers living there. He also finds that the year is 1986, and that he's been officially missing for eight years. NASA officials determine that Cramer was abducted by aliens during his blackout, and hope to scan the boy's brain in order to unlock a few se ...

Fly Away Home (1996) Genre: Children's/Family, Drama, Family-Oriented Adventure, Family Drama, Animal Picture, Coming-of-Age. Director: Carroll Ballard. Actors: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney, Holter Ford Graham, Jeremy Ratchford. Storyline: Inspired by a true story, Fly Away Home is a family drama about Amy Alden (Anna Paquin), a 13-year-old girl who, after the tragic death of her mother, is sent to live with her father Thomas (Jeff Daniels), a sculptor. Amy misses her mother and has never enjoyed a very warm relationship with her father, so the first few months in her new home are very difficult for her. However, one day Amy finds a ...

Harry and the Hendersons (1987) Genre: Comedy, Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Animal Picture. Director: William Dear. Actors: John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Margaret Langrick, Joshua Rudoy, Kevin Peter Hall, David Suchet, Lainie Kazan, Don Ameche, John Bloom, Debbie Lee Carrington, Connie Craig, William Dear, Nick Flynn, William Frankfather, Mickey Gilbert, Michael Goodell, Tom Hammond, Laura Kenny, James King, Dave MacIntyre, Chuck McCollum, Mark Mitchell, Sean Morgan, Juleen Murray, Fred Newman, Laurie O'brien, Bill Ontiverous, David Richards, Vern Taylor, M. Emmet Walsh. Storyline: While vacationing in the Pacific Northwest, the Henderson clan's dad George (John Lithgow), mom Nancy (Melinda Dillon), daughter Sarah (Margaret Langrick) and son Ernie (Joshua Rudroy) accidently run over a strange animal with their car, and when they get out to see what it is, they find the seemingly dead body of a hairy Bigfoot-type monster (Kevin Peter Hall). Believing that the creature is a gr ...

Hollywood Safari (1997) Genre: Children's/Family, Adventure, Family-Oriented Adventure, Animal Picture. Director: Henri Charr. Actors: John Savage, Ted Jan Roberts, David Leisure, Debby Boone, Ryan J. O'Neill, Kenneth Tigar, Don "The Dragon" Wilson. Storyline: The animal movie Hollywood Safari features a case of mistaken identity. Kensho, a trained lion used on film sets, is mistaken for a mountain lion that has killed people after he becomes separated from his handlers and goes into the wild. Troy and Jane, the animal trainers who control Kensho, realize what is happening and must, with the help of their sons, stop an overly enthusiastic deputy from ki ...

Hoot (2006) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Coming-of-Age. Director: Wil Shriner. Actors: Luke Wilson, Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson, Cody Linley, Neil Flynn, Clark Gregg, Kiersten Warren, Jessica Cauffiel, Dean Collins, Eric Phillips, Robert Wagner, Robert Donner. Storyline: Three kids have an unexpected adventure as they try to protect some rare birds in this comedy drama based on a book for young adults by Carl Hiaasen. Roy Eberhardt (Logan Lerman) is a 14-year-old boy whose family has moved so often he's literally lost count of the number of times he's changed schools in the last ten years. Roy ought to be used to being the new kid at school by now, but making the ...

Horton Hears a Who (2008) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino. Actors: Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Will Arnett, Seth Rogen, Dan Fogler, Isla Fisher, Jonah Hill, Amy Poehler, Jaime Pressly, Charles Osgood, Josh Flitter, Niecy Nash, Jesse McCartney, Shelby Adamowsky, Caitlin Rose Anderson, Emily Anderson, Debi Derryberry, Samantha Droke, Karen Disher, Marshall Erwin Efron, Bill Farmer, Jason Fricchione, Selena Gomez, James Hayward, Joey King, Christina Martino, Ellie Martino, Tim Nordquist, Laura Ortiz, Joe Pasquale, Isabella Acres, Mona Marshall, Connor Anderson, Mickie T. McGowan, Jack Angel, Laraine Newman, Bob Bergen, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, John Cygan, Madison Pettis, Madison Davenport, Jan Rabson, Teresa Ganzel, Ariel Winter, Jess Harnell, Sherry Lynn, Elena Martino, Danny Mann, Heather Goldenhersh. Storyline: When a kindly elephant hears a faint cry of help from a floating speck of dust, his attempts to protect the tiny particle cause his neighbors to question his sanity in this animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss' classic 1954 children's book of the same name. Produced by Ice Age makers Blue Sky, scripted by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, and directed by Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino, Horton Hears a Who re ...

Ice Age (2002) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Prehistoric Fantasy, Children's Fantasy. Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha. Actors: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Goran Visnjic, Jack Black, Tara Strong, Cedric the Entertainer, Stephen Root, Diedrich Bader, Alan Tudyk, Lorri Bagley, Jane Krakowski, Chris Wedge. Storyline: A team of "sub-zero heroes" band together to save a human infant in this digitally animated feature from Oscar-winning director Chris Wedge, whose unique lighting software (called "Ray Tracing") sets his visual style apart from earlier CGI efforts. Twenty thousand years ago, the Earth is overrun by freezing temperatures in an Ice Age that is sending all manner of critters scatt ...

Island of Lost Souls (2007) Genre: Children's/Family, Thriller, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Nicolai Arcel. Actors: Sarah Langebaek Gaarmann, Lucas Munk Billing, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Lasse Borg, Lars Mikkelsen, Anders W. Berthelsen, Beate Bille. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Genre: Children's/Family, Adventure, Fantasy, Family-Oriented Adventure, Children's Fantasy, Anime. Director: Hayao Miyazaki. Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Phil Hartman, Janeane Garofalo, Matthew Lawrence, Debbie Reynolds, Tress MacNeille, Edie McClurg, Kath Soucie, Jeff Bennett, Pamela Segall, Debi Derryberry, June Angela, Corey Burton, Lewis Arquette, Fay deWitt, Susan Hickman, Sherry Lynn, Matt Miller, Scott Menville, Eddie Frierson, Julia Demita, John de Mita. Storyline: Veteran animator Hayao Miyazaki directs this buoyant children's adventure yarn about a young witch striking out on her own. At her mother's behest, 13-year-old Kiki sets out on a year-long apprenticeship with her black cat in tow. With a shaky command of her broom, she ends up in a charming little coastal town that looks like a cross between the French provincial and San Francisco. Unfortunately, ...

Lassie (1994) Genre: Adventure, Children's/Family, Animal Picture, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Daniel Petrie. Actors: Tom Guiry, Helen Slater, Jon Tenney, Brittany Boyd, Frederic Forrest, Richard Farnsworth, Michelle Williams, Charlie Hofheimer, Clayton Barclay Jones, Yvonne Brisendine, Joe Inscoe, Lassie the Dog, Gretchen Rennell, Rick Warner, Jordan Young. Storyline: Sorry, no description is available yet for this movie...

Long John Silver (1953) Genre: Adventure, Costume Adventure, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Byron Haskin. Actors: Robert Newton, Kit Taylor, Connie Gilchrist, Eric Reiman, Syd Chambers, Henry Gilbert, Harvey Adams, Muriel Steinbeck, Lloyd Berrell, Tony Arpino, Frank Ransome, Charles McCallum, Rod Taylor, John Brunskill, John Llewellyn, Grant Taylor, Al Thomas, Kenneth J. Warren. Storyline: Robert Newton repeats his Treasure Island role as Long John Silver in this Australian adventure film—and if anything, Newton is even more out of control this time around than he'd been in the earlier picture. Paying only lip service to the Robert Louis Stevenson original, the film is made up of several marginally related episodes. In the first, Silver rescues a governor's daughter, manag ...

Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987) Genre: Children's/Family, Fantasy, Children's Fantasy, Fantasy Adventure, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Vladimir Grammatikov. Actors: Nicholas Pickard, Christian Bale, Christopher Lee, Timothy Bottoms, Susannah York, Gunilla Nyroos, Igor Yasulovich, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Linn Stokke, Andrei Petrov, Andrei Sergeev, Stig Engstrom, Geoffrey Staines. Storyline: Based on an Astrid Lindgren novel, this fantasy focuses on a Swedish teen drawn into a magical world to battle an evil knight.

Muppet Treasure Island (1996) Genre: Children's/Family, Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure, Family-Oriented Comedy, Sea Adventure. Director: Brian Henson. Actors: Tim Curry, Jennifer Saunders, Kevin Bishop, Billy Connolly, Frank Oz, Steve Whitmire, Dave Goelz, Kevin Clash, Harry Jones, Jerry Nelson, David Rudman, Frederick Warder. Storyline: Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a young orphan who becomes involved with pirate Long John Silver is given the Muppet treatment in this vibrant children's musical. As in The Muppet Christmas Carol, the film stays loyal to the original storyline but casts the well-known puppets in many of the supporting roles. Young Jim Hawkins remains human, as does Long John Silver, played by an amusingly ...

My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Genre: Fantasy, Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Anime, Children's Fantasy. Director: Hayao Miyazaki. Actors: Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning, Tim Daly, Lea Salonga, Pat Carroll, Lisa Michelson, Cheryl Chase, Greg Snegoff, Alexandra Kenworthy, Natalie Core, Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi, Sumi Shimamoto, Tanie Kitabayashi, Hitoshi Takagi, Machiko Washio. Storyline: This superbly animated children's tale is directed by Hayao Miyazaki, one of Japan's most beloved animators. The story follows Satsuke and Mai, two young girls who find their new country home is in a mystical forest inhabited by a menagerie of mystical creatures called Totoros. They befriend O Totoro, the biggest and eldest Totoro, who is also the king of the forest. As their girls' mother lies si ...

Nim's Island (2008) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett. Actors: Jodie Foster, Michael Carman, Anthony Simcoe, Christopher Baker, Mark Brady, Abigail Breslin, Gerard Butler, Peter Callan, Rhonda Doyle, Maddison Joyce. Storyline: A young girl living on a tropical island with her scientist father is left to fend for herself after her dad's boat leaves him stranded far away and careless tour companies wreak havoc on the secluded paradise in directors Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett's adaptation of the popular children's book by author Wendy Orr. Realizing that she will need adult assistance if she truly hopes to save her ho ...

Nocturna (2007) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Adrián García, Victor Maldonado. Actors: Storyline: A lonely orphan sheds his fear of the dark by taking an illuminating journey into the realm where nighttime truly comes alive in co-directors Adrián García and Victor Maldonado's imaginative animated lullaby. By day, Tim experiences the same small joys and minor disappointments of most other children his age; it's only when the sun falls over the distant hills that the otherwise carefree orphan fe ...

Once Upon a Forest (1993) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Children's Fantasy. Director: Charles Grosvenor, David Michener. Actors: Michael Crawford, Ben Vereen, Ellen Blain, Ben Gregory, Paige Gosney, Elisabeth Moss, Charles Adler, Allison Cowitt, Paul Eiding, Mike Fenton, Robert David Hall, Angel Harper, Will Nipper, Don Reed, Susan Silo, Juliet Taylor, Janet Waldo. Storyline: Set in a charming forest wonderland, this ecologically-conscious animated adventure tells the tale of a badger who inhales toxic fumes and nearly dies. Fortunately, her pals, a mouse, a hedgehog, and a mole are willing to risk their lives to find a cure.

Paulie (1998) Genre: Children's/Family, Animal Picture, Adventure Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure, Family-Oriented Comedy. Director: John Roberts. Actors: Jay Mohr, Gena Rowlands, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Bruce Davison, Trini Alvarado, Buddy Hackett, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Matt Craven, Bill Cobbs, Tia Texada, Laura Harrington. Storyline: In the Babe tradition of talking animatronic animals, this comedy adventure gets underway when animal-research-lab janitor Misha (Tony Shalhoub) expresses concern for a Blue-crown Conure parrot named Paulie (voice of Jay Mohr) caged in a dank basement. Misha settles back as Paulie tells his life story, seen in flashback: When Paulie was owned by little Marie (Hallie Kate Eisenberg), the parrot hel ...

Pollyanna (1960) Genre: Drama, Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Childhood Drama. Director: David Swift. Actors: Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Karl Malden, Nancy Olson, Donald Crisp, Adolphe Menjou, Agnes Moorehead, Kevin Corcoran, James Drury, Reta Shaw, Leora Dana, Anne Seymour, Edward Platt, Mary Grace Canfield, Jenny Egan, Gage Clarke, Nolan Leary, Edgar Dearing, Harry Harvey, William Newell, Ian Wolfe. Storyline: Eleanor H. Porter's story of Pollyanna, "The Glad Girl," was first filmed in 1920 by Mary Pickford. While entertaining, the Pickford version tended to reduce the supporting characters to stereotypes. Disney's 1960 remake of Pollyanna wisely offers three-dimensional characterizations, enhancing the charm and believability of the story. In her first Disney film (indeed, her first American ...

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975) Genre: Children's/Family, Fairy Tales & Legends, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Chuck Jones. Actors: Orson Welles. Storyline: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was one of several animated TV specials based on the works of Rudyard Kipling, and produced and directed by Chuck Jones. The title character is a courageous mongoose, the unofficial pet of a British family living in India. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi has appointed himself protector of the family's young son. He proves his mettle when two vicious cobras prepare to attack the child. Narrated b ...

Robots (2005) Genre: Children's/Family, Sci-Fi Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha. Actors: Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Drew Carey, Jim Broadbent, Amanda Bynes, Jennifer Coolidge, Stanley Tucci, Dianne Wiest, Paul Giamatti, Natasha Lyonne, Terry Bradshaw, Dan Hedaya, James Earl Jones, Jay Leno, Al Roker, Stephen Tobolowsky, Harland Williams, Lucille Bliss, Lara Cody, Cooper Cowgill, David Crommett, Dylan Denton, Will Denton, Darin de Paul, Marshall Erwin Efron, Damien Fahey, Dann Fink, Lowell Ganz, Timothy Gulan, Alexander Haney, Angela Haney, Jackie Hoffman, Ray Iannicelli, Sondra James, Vanessa Lemonides, Anthony J. Lewis, Jr., Marcus Maurice, Brian McFadden, Tim Nordquist, Jansen Panettiere, Jennifer Perito, Kristin Reeves, Alan Rosenberg, David Rossmer, Lyla Stone, Chris Wedge, Crawford Wilson, Bruce Winant. Storyline: For this follow-up to their mega-hit Ice Age, directors Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge team with the screenwriting duo behind Parenthood and City Slickers, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. Robots stars Ewan McGregor as the voice of Rodney Copperbottom, an idealistic robot who wants to convince his electronic brethren to come together and work toward making the world a better place. As the story un ...

Secret of the Cave (2006) Genre: Drama, Family-Oriented Adventure, Coming-of-Age. Director: Zach Gray. Actors: Kevin Novotny, Patrick Bergin, Joseph Kelly, Sean Murphy, Jim Roche, Niall O'Brien, Maria McDermottroe, Noelle Brown, Niamh Finn, Peadar Lamb, Sheila Flitton, Kieran Gough, Rhoda Griffis, Gareth O'Connor. Storyline: Zach Gray helms the Gaelic-flavored, spiritually charged mystery Secret of the Cave — one of the first major cinematic productions of Southern Adventist University. The story unfurls on the idyllic, rocky coasts of Ireland, where a young boy, Roy Wallace (Kevin Novotny), is spending the summer with his Irish dad (Patrick Bergin of Love Crimes and Sleeping with the Enemy). Soon, inexplica ...

Stuart Little 2 (2002) Genre: Children's/Family, Fantasy, Family-Oriented Adventure, Fantasy Adventure. Director: Rob Minkoff. Actors: Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Melanie Griffith, James Woods, Marc John Jefferies, Nathan Lane, Anna Hoelck, Ashley Hoelck, Steve Zahn. Storyline: This sequel to a family hit based on the popular children's book by E.B. White again mixes live action actors with computer-animated cartoon characters. Michael J. Fox returns as the voice of Stuart Little, a three-inch tall talking mouse adopted by a human family in New York City. When his older "brother", George (Jonathan Lipnicki), starts spending more time with his other friends, pla ...

The Flintstones (1994) Genre: Comedy, Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Brian Levant. Actors: John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan, Halle Berry, Elizabeth Taylor, Dann Florek, Richard Moll, Jonathan Winters, Harvey Korman, Joseph Barbera, Mel Blanc, Alan Blumenfeld, Dean Cundey, Rick Dees, Jim Doughan, Bill Hanna, Janice Kent, Irwin Keyes, Jay Leno, Rod McCary, Nancy Nayor, Laraine Newman, Jack O'Halloran, Kate Pierson, Sam Raimi, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Fred Schneider, Jean Vander Pyl, Alex Zimmerman. Storyline: The good (if not fully evolved) citizens of Bedrock make their way to the big screen in this live-action adaptation of the popular animated series of the 1960s. Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) and his best friend Barney Rubble (Rick Moranis) work together at the Slate and Company Rock Quarry. When Fred loans Barney some money that allows him and his wife Betty (Rosie O'Donnell) to adopt a child, Ba ...

The Goonies (1985) Genre: Adventure, Family-Oriented Adventure, Adventure Comedy, Family-Oriented Comedy. Director: Richard Donner. Actors: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, John Matuszak, Robert Davi, Joe Pantoliano, Anne Ramsey, Jeb Stuart Adams, Steve Antin, Newt Arnold, Bill Bradley, Patrick Cameron, Michael Paul Chan, Jeff B. Cohen, Jane Feinberg, Mike Fenton, Ted Grossman, Curtis Hanson, Orwin Harvey, Charles McDaniel, George Nicholas McLean, Elaine Cohen McMahon, Jack O'Leary, Lupe Ontiveros, Jonathan Ke Quan, George Robotham, Gene Ross, Max Segar, Judy Taylor, Mary Ellen Trainor, Paul Tuerpé, Keith Walker, Eric Briant Wells. Storyline: Leonard Maltin wasn't alone when he noticed similarities between Goonies and the 1934 Our Gang comedy Mama's Little Pirate. Adapted by Chris Columbus from a story by Steven Spielberg, the film follows a group of misfit kids (including such second-generation Hollywoodites as Josh Brolin and Sean Astin) as they search for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of lady cri ...

The Great Muppet Caper (1981) Genre: Children's/Family, Comedy, Adventure Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Jim Henson. Actors: Charles Grodin, Diana Rigg, John Cleese, Robert Morley, Peter Ustinov, Jack Warden, Peggy Aitchison, Susan Backlinie, Robert Barnett, Chai Lee, Erica Creer, Peter Falk, Della Finch, Tommy Godfrey, Dave Goelz, Louise Gold, Jim Henson, Brian Henson, Trevor Howard, Kate Howard, Peter Hughes, Richard Hunt, Valli Kemp, Lynn Latham, Cynthia Leake, Denise Mc Kenna, Kathryn Mullen, Jerry Nelson, Christine Nelson, Frank Oz, Bobby Payne, Mike Quinn, Michael Robbins, Joan Sanderson, Carroll Spinney, Steve Whitmire. Storyline: The Great Muppet Caper is the second Muppet film and it is considerably more complex than its predecessor, The Muppet Movie, which was essentially just a road movie. As the film begins, Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear are reporters who have failed to bag a story of a London jewel heist, which happened under their watch. The real criminals managed to escape and frame Miss Piggy as the thief. Kermit ...

The Incredibles (2004) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Comic-Book Superhero Film. Director: Brad Bird. Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, Wallace Shawn, Sarah Vowell, Spencer Fox, Brad Bird, Elizabeth Peña, John Ratzenberger, Jean Sincere, Dominique Louis. Storyline: Directed by Brad Bird, The Incredibles revolves around former high-profile superhero Bob Parr (aka Mr. Incredible), who has not-so-successfully settled into suburban life along with his wife and kids under the watchful eye of the Superhero Protection Program. A far cry from the "glory days" during which "supers" were a welcome addition to society, the Parrs' living situation w ...

The Journey of Natty Gann (1985) Genre: Adventure, Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure, Coming-of-Age. Director: Jeremy Kagan. Actors: Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise, Scatman Crothers, Barry Miller, Lainie Kazan, Jack Ackroyd, Peter Anderson, Scott Andersen, Zachary Ansley, Wally Beeton, Hagan Beggs, Ian Black, Verna Bloom, Doug Boyd, Gary Chalk, Robert Clothier, Bryan Couture, Hannah Cutrona, Don S. Davis, Alex Diakun, Matthew Faison, John Finnegan, Bruce M. Fischer, Kaye Grieve, Thomas Heaton, Gary Hendrickson, Grant Heslov, John Hock, Marie Klingenberg, Campbell Lane, Lorne LaRiviere, Al MacIntosh, Doug MacLeod, Wally Marsh, Dwight McFee, Sheelah Megill, Ray Michal, Jennifer Michas, Stephen E. Miller, Harvey M. Miller, Paula-Marie Moody, Jordan Pratt, Jack Rader, Jeff Ramsey, Gary Riley, Gabrielle Rose, Clint Rowe, Corliss M. Smith, Jr., Bob Storms, Ian Tracey, Max Trumpower, Frank C. Turner. Storyline: Disney's The Journey of Natty Gann stars Meredith Salenger in the title role. During the Depression, Natty's father (Ray Wise) takes a job in a Northwestern lumber camp, leaving his daughter behind in Chicago with the promise that he'll send for her when he's put together enough money. Unwilling to wait that long, Natty runs away from her guardian (Lainie Kazan) and hops a freight bound for her da ...

The Jungle Book (1967) Genre: Adventure, Musical, Children's/Family, Animated Musical, Coming-of-Age, Family-Oriented Adventure, Jungle Film, Children's Fantasy. Director: Wolfgang Reitherman. Actors: Bruce Reitherman, Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, J. Pat O'Malley, Verna Felton, Clint Howard, Chad Stuart, Lord Tim Hudson, John Abbott, Ben Wright, Darlene Carr. Storyline: The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kipling. The story takes place in a tropical jungle where people are conspicuously absent. But one day Bagheera the Panther (voice of Sebastian Cabot) discovers a baby in the wreck of a boat. Feeling pity on the child, Bagheera takes him to be raised with ...

The Red Balloon (1956) Genre: Children's/Family, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Albert Lamorisse. Actors: Pascal Lamorisse, The Children of Ménlimontant, Sabine Lamorisse, Renée Marion, Paul Perey, Michel Pezin, Wladimir Popof, Renaud Séchan, David Séchan, Georges Sellier. Storyline: Most of French director Albert Lamorisse's films celebrate the miracle of flight, but few were as landmark as his 1956 short subject The Red Balloon. The story, told without dialogue, concerns a little boy (played by the director's son Pascal) who comes across a helium-filled balloon. As he plays with his new acquisition, the boy discovers that the balloon seemingly has a mind of its own. The litt ...

The Wind in the Willows (2006) Genre: Children's/Family, Children's Fantasy, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: Rachel Talalay. Actors: Matt Lucas, Mark Gatiss, Lee Ingleby, Bob Hoskins, Imelda Staunton, Jim Carter, Anna Maxwell Martin, Mary Walsh, Michael Murphy. Storyline: Thesps Matt Lucas, Bob Hoskins, Mark Gatiss and Lee Ingleby star in this live-action BBC miniseries adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's beloved novel The Wind in the Willows. The program weaves the familiar tale of Mole, Rat, Badger and the inimitable Mr. Toad, who remain fast friends as they experience exciting adventures involving stolen motorcars, imprisonment, houseboating. gypsies and freewheelin ...

Toy Story (1995) Genre: Fantasy, Children's/Family, Children's Fantasy, Fantasy Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure, Odd Couple Film. Director: John Lasseter. Actors: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, Jack Angel, Greg Berg, Kendall Cunningham, R. Lee Ermey, Bill Farmer, Sarah Freeman, Penn Jillette, Sherry Lynn, Scott McAfee, Laurie Metcalf, John Morris, Patrick Pinney, Annie Potts, Philip Proctor, Jan Rabson, Joe Ranft, John Ratzenberger, Erik Von Detten. Storyline: Toy Story was the first feature-length film animated entirely by computer. If this seems to be a sterile, mechanical means of moviemaking, be assured that the film is as chock-full of heart and warmth as any Disney cartoon feature. The star of the proceedings is Woody, a pull-string cowboy toy belonging to a wide-eyed youngster named Andy. Whenever Andy's out of the room, Woody revels in his statu ...

Toy Story 2 (1999) Genre: Children's/Family, Fantasy, Children's Fantasy, Fantasy Comedy, Family-Oriented Adventure. Director: John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, Ash Brannon. Actors: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, Wayne Knight, John Morris, Laurie Metcalf, Estelle Harris, R. Lee Ermey, Jodi Benson, Jonathan Harris, Joe Ranft, Andrew Stanton, Jeff Pidgeon. Storyline: Woody the Cowboy, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of their friends from the toy box return in this computer-animated sequel to the 1995 hit Toy Story. This time around, Andy, the young boy who is the proud owner of most of our cast of characters, is off at summer camp, giving the toys a few weeks off to do as they please. Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) is unaware that in the years since his model went ou ...

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