Family Movies (Page #44)

Three siblings move into a new house, and accidentally discover that the monstrous things they’ve been told don’t exist, do exist – and they are as afraid of us as we are of them.

The Robinson family suffers a shipwreck and washes ashore on an uncharted tropical island. On the island, the family builds a home in a giant tree and battles the forces of nature.

The young Belgian reporter and world traveler is aided in his adventures by his faithful dog Snowy.

Claudia, a product demonstrator in her twenties, meets ailing matriarch Martha in a hospital room when she is admitted for appendicitis. Martha is an HIV-positive mother of four with an endless lust for life; Claudia has been on her own her entire life. The two women quickly bond, and when it comes time to leave, Martha invites Claudia to come stay with her family. Reluctant at first, Martha’s family eventually gives new meaning to Claudia’s life, and as Martha gets sicker with each passing day, Claudia’s bond with her children grows stronger.

"The Ant Bully" is based on a book by John Nickle, which tells the tale of a young boy who floods an ant colony with his water-gun, and is magically shrunken down to insect size and sentenced to hard labor in the ruins. Before returning to half-pint stature, he comes to appreciate the selfless nature of the ants and learns a valuable lesson about tolerance and empathy.

In the family comedy, a hard-working family man's life improves when he's accused of a white-collar crime on the job.

It’s been two years since siblings Kate (Darby Camp) and Teddy Pierce (Judah Lewis) saved Christmas, and a lot has changed. Kate, now a cynical teenager, is reluctantly spending Christmas in Cancun with her mom’s new boyfriend and his son Jack (Jahzir Bruno). Unwilling to accept this new version of her family, Kate decides to run away. But when a mysterious, magical troublemaker named Belsnickel threatens to destroy the North Pole and end Christmas for good, Kate and Jack are unexpectedly pulled into a new adventure with Santa Claus (Kurt Russell).

One year later, the Kings and Queens of Narnia find themselves back in that faraway wondrous realm, only to discover that more than 1,300 years have passed in Narnian time. During their absence, the Golden Age of Narnia has become extinct and Narnia has been conquered by the Telmarines and is now under the control of the evil King Miraz, who rules the land without mercy. The four children will soon meet a curious new character: Narnia''s rightful heir to the throne, the young Prince Caspian, who has been forced into hiding, as his uncle Miraz plots to kill him in order to place his own newborn son on the throne. With the help of the kindly dwarf, a courageous talking mouse named Reepicheep, a badger named Trufflehunter and a Black Dwarf, Nikabrik, the Narnians--led by the mighty knights Peter and Caspian--embark on a remarkable journey to find Aslan, rescue Narnia from Miraz''s tyrannical hold, and restore magic and glory to the land.

Centers on Chester, a cricket who lives in a NY subway station newsstand and his various friends.

When a pre-med student gets her first job in a nursing home, an unexpected friendship with Luis (Academy Award Winner Louis Gossett Jr.), an elderly Cuban musician, reignites her love of music and changes her life forever.

The Stones, a New England family, have their annual holiday gathering. The eldest son brings his girlfriend home to meet his parents, brothers and sisters. The bohemian Stones greet their visitor--a high-powered, controlling New Yorker--with a mix of awkwardness, confusion and hostility. Before the holiday is over, relationships will unravel while new ones are formed, secrets will be revealed, and the family Stone will come together through its extraordinary capacity for love.

Five young monks in 17th-century China, each who specialize in a different style of "animal" kung fu, are forced to flee their secret temple and rely on their training and instincts to survive.

Four sweet, young monsters (a wolf boy, a kid zombie, a young sea monster and a third-generation boogie man) have a hard time fitting in with the "normal" human kids. When they find each other, they set out, accompanied by their loyal, flight-challenged pet bat, on an adventure of their own.

Wiley Wolf, Violet Wolf, Oliver Raccoon, Sammy Squirrel and Brinley Bear are anointed by the Great Wolf Spirit as the Great Wolf Pack. Through a magical geyser, they transport to whimsical worlds where they put to use the power of the Pack to overcome various dilemmas. Only by joining together in friendship and combining their unique talents and flaws can they conquer the challenges that come their way.

Follows the misadventures of Whitney Brown, a privileged and popular Philadelphia teenager whose world is upended when her parents, Henry and Joan, experience sudden economic problems that necessitate a family move to Whitney’s grandparents’ old farm in the country. There, far from her dizzying world of shallow gir...lfriends, endless parties and school pressures, she finds a new best pal: Odd Job Bob, a beautiful and spirited Gypsy Vanner horse owned by her new neighbor Dusty --- a crusty rancher who turns out to be her estranged grandfather. Through her new relationships with Odd Job Bob, Dusty and her parents, Whitney rediscovers what it means to respect not only nature and her family, but also someone very special she had almost lost touch with: herself.

Follows the comedic adventures of two "door guardians" — figures from Chinese folklore who protect the entranceway of one's home — who are out of work because contemporary Chinese people are so busy with modern consumer life that they have forgotten about the spirit world.

Set in the near future where books are scarce, a young boy develops a strange appetite for them. The more books he eats, the smarter he becomes, prompting him to devour them at an alarming rate. Eventually the boy gives up eating books and finds that it can also be satisfying to read them.

More adventures with Mowgli, a young boy who was raised by wolves, and his friends: a bear named Baloo and a panther by the name of Bagheera.

Despite the difficulty of his parents divorce, 12 year-old Sylvester Coddmeyer makes the middle school baseball team with the help of the mysterious Mr. Baruth and starts lighting up the scoreboard.

Our story begins in 1985. The Macaluso sisters (Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella) are five very young, orphaned siblings who live in and work from a rooftop apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves out for ceremonies of all manner. During a rare beach outing by the sisters a shocking catastrophe transpires. That single event will change the course of the relations between the sisters for the rest of their lives.