Category Archives: Family

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Release 2002

Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery

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Director: Chris Columbus
Writers: J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Griffiths, Fiona Shaw
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295297/

Harry ignores warnings not to return to Hogwarts, only to find the school plagued by a series of mysterious attacks and a strange voice haunting him.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Release 2004

Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery

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Director: Alfonso CuarĂ³n
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.