Category Archives: Family
Toy Story 2
Release 1999
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Director: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich
Writers: John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Ash Brannon, Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin, Chris Webb
Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120363/
When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends vow to rescue him, but Woody finds the idea of immortality in a museum tempting.
Toy Story
Release 1995
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Director: John Lasseter
Writers: John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, Joe Ranft, Joss Whedon, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow
Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114709/
A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.
Toy Story 3
Release 2010
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Lee Unkrich
Writers: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich, Michael Arndt
Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435761/
The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home.
Secretariat
Release 2010
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Director: Randall Wallace
Writers: Mike Rich, William Nack
Stars: Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Dylan Walsh, Margo Martindale, Nelsan Ellis
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1028576/
Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.
The Secret World of Arrietty
Release 2010
Genre Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Writers: Mary Norton, Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa
Stars: Moises Arias, Bridgit Mendler, David Henrie, Will Arnett, Carol Burnett
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568921/
The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their daughter, Arrietty, is discovered.
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Release 2013
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Thor Freudenthal
Writers: Marc Guggenheim, Rick Riordan
Stars: Logan Lerman, Alexandra Daddario, Douglas Smith, Leven Rambin, Brandon T. Jackson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1854564/
In order to restore their dying safe haven, the son of Poseidon and his friends embark on a quest to the Sea of Monsters to find the mythical Golden Fleece while trying to stop an ancient evil from rising.
The Smurfs
Release 2011
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Raja Gosnell
Writers: J. David Stem, David N. Weiss, Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Peyo
Stars: Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofía Vergara, Tim Gunn
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472181/
When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world into New York City.
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Release 2010
Genre Adventure, Family, Fantasy
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Director: Chris Columbus
Writers: Craig Titley, Rick Riordan
Stars: Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Jake Abel, Sean Bean
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814255/
A teenager discovers he's the descendant of a Greek god and sets out on an adventure to settle an on-going battle between the gods.
Kung Fu Panda 2
Release 2011
Genre Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family
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Director: Jennifer Yuh
Writers: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger
Stars: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Gary Oldman, Jackie Chan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1302011/
Po and his friends fight to stop a peacock villain from conquering China with a deadly new weapon, but first the Dragon Warrior must come to terms with his past.
Kung Fu Panda
Release 2008
Genre Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
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Director: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
Writers: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris
Stars: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane, Jackie Chan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441773/
In the Valley of Peace, Po the Panda finds himself chosen as the Dragon Warrior despite the fact that he is obese and a complete novice at martial arts.