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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.

Fluke (1995)

6.7/10
Director: Carlo Carlei
Starring: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Nancy Travis, Jon Polito, Max Pomeranc

Touching, often funny family drama about a driven businessman who is killed in a car accident and reincarnated as a dog. As memories of his human life... Read more

Pocahontas (1995)

6.7/10
Director: Eric Goldberg, Mike Gabriel
Starring: Irene Bedard, Mel Gibson, Voices Of, Billy Connolly

The true story of the native American girl who became a peacemaker between her people and English settlers in the early 1600s served as a basis for Di... Read more

Dinosaur (2000)

6.5/10
Director: Ralph Zondag, Eric Leighton
Starring: Joan Plowright, Voices Of, Ossie Davis, D B Sweeney

Disney's spectacular computer-animated adventure is set 65 million years ago at the end of the Age of Reptiles, as an abandoned baby iguanadon named A... Read more

Hoodwinked (2005)

6.5/10
Director: Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards
Starring: Voices Of, Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close, James Belich, Patrick Warburton, Anthony...

Grimm's classic fairy-tale gets a hip new animated re-telling as two critter cops, Stork (Anthony Anderson) and Grizzly (Xzibit) are sent to investiga... Read more

Snow Dogs (2002)

5.1/10
Director: Brian Levant
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr, James Coburn, Graham Greene, M Emmet Walsh, Nichelle Nichols

In this exciting, good-natured family adventure, Miami dentist Cuba Gooding Jr heads to Alaska to claim his inheritance from his birth mother. What he... Read more

Coraline (2009)

7.7/10
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, Rober...

Vividly animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's best-seller about an adventurous little girl who walks through a secret door and finds a world that is sp... Read more

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)

7.2/10
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre

The great Disney version of Jules Verne's famous adventure/fantasy about a sailor (Kirk Douglas) and a scientist who get involved with Captain Nemo, (... Read more

The Pacifier (2005)

5.6/10
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Vin Diesel, Lauren Graham, Faith Ford, Brittany Snow, Max Thieriot, Carol Kane,...

After the government scientist he was supposed to be guarding is killed by terrorists, Lt. Shane Wolfe (Vin Diesel), a tough-as-nails Navy Seal who ha... Read more

Madagascar (2005)

6.9/10
Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
Starring: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen,...

A pack of not-so-wild animals experience some serious culture shock when they break out of their enclosure in the Big Apple and head off to the Mighty... Read more

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Collector's Edition (1982)

7.9/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Robert MacNaughton, Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace

The winner of 4 Oscars and now a classic, about a 10 year old boy befriending a creature from another planet that's been stranded on Earth. A warm, in... Read more