Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 December 2013

Enchanted

Enchanted
Genres: Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Year: 2007
Language : English
Director: Kevin Lima
Cast: Amy Adams / Susan Sarandon / James Marsden / Timothy Spall /Idina Menzel / Rachel Covey / Susan Sarandon / Julie Andrews / Jeff Bennett / Kevin Lima / Emma Rose Lima /Teala Dunn / Fred Tatasciore / Courtney Williams / William Huntley

Storyline :

The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world? 

Monday, 25 November 2013

Born Free

Born Free
Genres:Family / Drama / Adventure
Year: 1966
Language : English
Director: James Hill
Cast: Virginia McKenna / Bill Travers / Geoffrey Keen / Peter Lukoye / Omar Chambati / Bill Godden / Bryan Epsom / Robert Cheetham / Robert S. Young / Geoffrey Best / Surya Patel



Joy Adamson and her husband, Kenya game warden George Adamson, raise Elsa, a lion cub. When Elsa approaches maturity, Joy determines she must re-educate Elsa to living in the wild so that the lioness can return to a free life.



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Sunday, 21 July 2013

The Princess Diaries

The Princess Diaries
Genres: Comedy / Family / Romance
Year: 2001
Director:Garry Marshall
Cast: Julie Andrews / Anne Hathaway / Hector Elizondo / Heather Matarazzo / Mandy Moore / Caroline Goodall / Robert Schwartzman / Erik von Detten / Sean O'Bryan
Mia Thermopolis is the average teenager - sweet, a little geeky and pretty much invisible to everyone with the exception of her mother, best friend Lilly and Lilly's older brother Michael. Making it through high school without throwing up is a challenge in itself for Mia, so it doesn't come as welcome news when her estranged grandmother shows up out of the blue and calmly informs her that she is in fact the heir to the throne of a European country called Genovia. Suddenly Mia's life is thrown into complete overload.

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Fame

Fame
Genres: Comedy / Drama / Family / Musical
Year: 2009
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
Cast: Kay Panabaker / Walter Perez / Naturi Naughton / Asher Book / Kherington Payne / Collins Pennie / Kristy Flores / Paul McGill / Bebe Neuwirth / Paul Iacono / Charles S. Dutton / Cody Longo / Kelsey Grammer / Anna Maria Perez de Tagle / Megan Mullally
An updated version of the 1980 musical, which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.

Monday, 10 June 2013

The King And I

The King And I
Genres Drama / Family / Musical 
Year : 1956
Director:Walter Lang
Cast: Yul Brynner / Deborah Kerr  / Rita Moreno / Martin Benson / Terry Saunders / Rex Thompson / Carlos Rivas / Patrick Adiarte
 Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. She threatens to leave when the house she had been promised is not available, but falls in love with the children. A new slave, a gift of a vassal king, translates "Uncle Tom's Cabin" into a Siamese ballet, expressing her unhappiness at being with the King. She attempts to escape with her lover. Anna and the King fall in love, but her British upbringing inhibits her from joining his harem.

Saturday, 25 May 2013

Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie
Genres: Musical / Family / Comedy
Year: 1963
Director:  George Sidney
Cast: Janet Leigh / Dick Van Dyke / Ann-Margret / Maureen Stapleton / Bobby Rydell / Jesse Pearson / Paul Lynde / Mary LaRoche
Conrad Birdie is the biggest rock & roll star of the 60's ever to be drafted. Aspiring chemist and song writer Albert is convinced he can make his fortune and marry his girlfriend Rosie if he gets Conrad on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss a high school girl goodbye. Albert's mother will do anything to break him up with Rosie. Kim and Hugo, the high school steadies, live in Sweet Apple, Ohio where most of the action takes place. 

Sunday, 7 April 2013

The Painted Hills

The Painted Hills
Genres: Family / Western 
Year: 1951
Director: Harold F. Kress
Cast: Pal / Paul Kelly / Bruce Cowling / Gary GrayArt Smith / Ann Doran / Chief Yowlachie / Andrea Virginia Lester
A Lassie movie. After years of prospecting, Jonathan finally strikes gold. He returns to town only to discover that his partner has since died and left Tommy fatherless. He decides to leave Shep (played by Lassie) with Tommy to cheer him up. Meanwhile, Jonathan's new partner, Lin, isn't interested in sharing the gold, and lures Jonathan to his death. Lassie immediately deduces what's happened, so Lin poisons Lassie. Lassie barely pulls through and pursues Lin to a climactic confrontation where, due to an off-screen accident with some liquid nitrogen, Lin's gun jams.

Saturday, 19 January 2013

Peter Pan

Peter Pan
Genres: Family / Adventure / Fantasy
Year: 2003 
Director: P.J. Hogan
Cast: Patrick Gooch / Harry Eden / George MacKay / Rupert Simonian / Theodore Chester / Ludivine Sagnier / Freddie Popplewell / Harry Newell / Geoffrey Palmer / Olivia Williams / Richard Briers / Lynn Redgrave / Rachel Hurd-Wood / Jeremy Sumpter / Jason Isaacs
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit rooftops through a galaxy of stars and to the lush jungles of Neverland.

Saturday, 5 January 2013

The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz
Genres: Family / Adventure / Fantasy
Year: 1939
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Clara Blandick / Pat Walshe / Charley Grapewin / Margaret Hamilton / Billie Burke / Jack Haley / Bert Lahr / Ray Bolger / Frank Morgan / Judy Garland / Terry / The Singer Midgets / Jackie Gerlich
In this charming film based on the popular L. Frank Baum stories, Dorothy and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado's path and somehow end up in the land of Oz. Here she meets some memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their goals of a brain, heart and courage.

My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady
Genres: Musical / Family / Drama
Year: 1964 
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Mona Washbourne / Theodore Bikel / Jeremy Brett / Gladys Cooper / Wilfrid Hyde-White / Stanley Holloway / Rex Harrison / Audrey Hepburn / Isobel Elsom / John Holland
Gloriously witty adaptation of the Broadway musical about Professor Henry Higgins, who takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined, dirty Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady, and fool everyone into thinking she really is one, too! He does, and thus young aristocrat Freddy Eynsford-Hill falls madly in love with her. But when Higgins takes all the credit and forgets to acknowledge her efforts, Eliza angrily leaves him for Freddy, and suddenly Higgins realizes he's grown accustomed to her face and can't really live without it.

Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof
Genres: Drama / Family / Musical   
Year: 1971 
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Topol / Norma Crane / Leonard Frey / Molly Picon / Paul Mann / Rosalind Harris / Michele Marsh / Neva Small / Paul Michael Glaser / Ray Lovelock / Elaine Edwards / Candy Bonstein / Shimen Ruskin / Zvee Scooler / Louis Zorich
 Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of 'shtetl' life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms

 

Saturday, 29 December 2012

Hook

Hook
Year : 1991 
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: J.M. Barrie (books), J.M. Barrie (play), and 4 more credits »
Stars: Dustin Hoffman / Robin Williams  / Julia Roberts
Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts). With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must remember how to be Peter Pan again in order to save his children by battling with Captain Hook once again.

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

The Muppets


The Muppets
Genres: Musical / Family / Comedy
Year: 2011
Director: James Bobin
Cast: David Rudman / Bill Barretta / Dave Goelz / Eric Jacobson / Steve Whitmire / Rashida Jones / Chris Cooper / Amy Adams / Jason Segel / Matt Vogel / Peter Linz / Alan Arkin / Bill Cobbs / Zach Galifianakis / Ken Jeong
When 3 muppet fans learn that Tex Richman wants to drill under the muppet theater for oil Gary, Mary and Walter set out to find the muppets who have been split up for years Kermit lives in his own mansion depressed in hollywood, Gonzo is a high class plumber at Gonzo's Royal Flush, Fozzie performs with a tribute band called The Moopets , Miss Piggy is the plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, and Animal is at a celebrity anger managment rehab center in Santa Barbara.

Friday, 26 October 2012

Hachiko A Dog’s Story

Hachiko A Dog’s Story
Genres:Drama / Family
Year:2009
Director:Lasse Hallström
Cast: Richard Gere / Joan Allen / Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa / Sarah Roemer / Jason Alexander / Erick Avari / Davenia McFadden / Robbie Sublett / Kevin DeCoste / Rob Degnan / Tora Hallstrom / Donna Sorbello / Frank S. Aronson / Troy Doherty / Ian Sherman

Storyline : 


In Bedridge, Professor Parker Wilson finds an abandoned dog at the train station and takes it home with the intention of returning the animal to its owner. He finds that the dog is an Akita and names it Hachiko. However, nobody claims the dog so his family decides to keep Hachi.

Mary Poppins


Mary Poppins 
Genres: Musical / Family / Comedy
Year: 1964
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Dick Van Dyke / Julie Andrews / Reginald Owen / Arthur Treacher / Elsa Lanchester / Matthew Garber / Karen Dotrice / Reta Shaw / Hermione Baddeley / Glynis Johns / David Tomlinson  / Ed Wynn / Jane Darwell / Arthur Malet / James Logan
The movie combines a diverting story, songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers before flying off again.