Children's & Family Theatre
Enjoy your journey down the yellow brick road and into the wondrous world of family films. Children's and family-oriented films are often suitable for all age groups, and cover a wide range of genre categories (comedy, adventure, fantasy, musicals, etc.).
There are several category choices with something to entertain the little ones or the whole darn family. For the younger ones click on 'Pre-School Entertainment' in green on the left. 'Disney Animation', 'Family Animation' and 'Classic Animation' can be accessed via the 'Animation' link further up the menu.
Pictured: 'The Wizard of Oz', one of the best-loved family films of all time.
The Rocketeer (1991)
6.4/10
Director: Joe Johnston
Starring: Alan Arkin, Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Sorvino, Timothy Dalton
A glorious adventure for all, about a young pilot who is transformed into a jet-propelled hero when Nazi agents attempt to steal a top- secret inventi... Read more
The New Adventures Of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
5.9/10
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Tami Erin, Eileen Brennan, Dennis Dugan
One of children's literature's most endearing heroines is back on the screen. Join pig-tailed scamp Pippi and her pals as they run away from home and... Read more
Short Circuit 2 (1988)
5.6/10
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Starring: Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb
Number five lives! This time, the robot searches for input about life in the big city, all the while ducking street baddies, greedy bankers and a gang... Read more
Robin Hood (Disney) (1973)
6.7/10
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
Starring: Voices Of, Brian Bedford, Phil Harris, Peter Ustinov, Terry-Thomas
Disney's animated version of the legend casts Robin as a fox battling the evil wolf sheriff of Nottingham for freedom in Sherwood Forest. Peter Ustin... Read more
The Goonies (1985)
7.8/10
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Joe Pantoliano, Josh Brolin, Kerri Green, Martha Plim...
From the imagination of Steven Spielberg, 'The Goonies' plunges a band of small heroes into a swashbuckling, surprise-around-every-corner quest beyond... Read more
The Parent Trap (1998)
6.5/10
Director: Nancy Meyers
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Lindsay Lohan
Updated remake of Disney's 1961 family film about long-separated identical twins, Hallie and Annie, who meet accidentally at camp and decide to reunit... Read more
Big Fat Liar (2002)
5.4/10
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Bynes, Amanda Detmer, Donald Faison, Lee Ma...
Fourteen year old Frankie Muniz writes a short story for school that winds up in the hands of weaselly film producer Paul Giamatti. After learning his... Read more
Toy Story (1995)
8.3/10
Director: John Lasseter
Starring: Annie Potts, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, John Ratzenberger, Tim Allen, Tom Hanks, W...
A very clever, incredible-looking computer animated feature film telling the tale of a boy's favourite toy, a cowboy doll named Woody who's feeling th... Read more
Nanny McPhee (2005)
6.6/10
Director: Kirk Jones
Starring: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Kelly Macdonald, Thomas Sangster, P...
Widower Colin Firth must return to work and decides to hire a nanny for his unruly brood of seven children. After a string of hapless women are sent... Read more
Tuck Everlasting (2002)
6.7/10
Director: Jay Russell
Starring: Alexis Bledel, William Hurt, Jonathan Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek, Amy I...
An endearing and thoughtful Disney fantasy, based on Natalie Babbitt's popular book. In 1910s New York state, teenager Alexis Bledel is lost in the wo... Read more