Feature Films For Families
1) Runaway
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A young man learns the importance of kindness when he tries to live among the homeless in the subway system of New York City.
Author
Pub. Date
c.2004
Description
On Christmas Eve, a grandfather tells his young grandson a fanciful story of how a cook names Pete helps St. Nicholas escape from prison. Pete then travels the world with him, doing good deeds, experiencing the great joy of freely giving. In the end, the young grandson learns there's more to this story than he ever imagined.
5) Slow Moe
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
APPRX 90 MINUTES. $20.00. CARING, FAMILY, HONESTY, FORGIVENESS. DN
6) Slow Moe
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
An akward teenage boy's dream comes true when he finds a mysterious pair of glasses that turns him into the greatest baseball player his town has ever seen. He quickly learns that winning doesn't mean anything if you can't be proud of how you play the game.
Pub. Date
2003
Description
When Jed and Martha Richards agree to raise young, orphaned Daniel, Jed is delighted. Martha, still grieving for her two little girls who died on the trek West, can't help comparing them to this awkward, dirty young boy who annoys her at every turn. Danny's innocent heart is finally able to rescue hers on a snowy Christmas Eve.
Description
Frankie (Mischa Barton) has studied ballet her whole life. Her grandmother (Joan Plowright) has raised her to be the next prima ballerina, but Frankie has other plans. Meanwhile, Frankie's best friend Hazel has plans of her own with dreams of becoming the town's youngest mayor. Together Frankie and Hazel set out to prove that all it takes is a little kid power to make a big difference.
13) Alan & Naomi
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alan Silverman, a skinny, rebellious kid who would rather play stickball than become a good samaritan, tries to hide his friendship with Naomi, a young refugee traumatized by the Nazis.
14) Down and derby
Pub. Date
�2008.
Description
A small-town Pinewood Derby competition that transforms an average group of dads into an awkward bunch of competitors.
15) I was a rat
Pub. Date
2005
Description
"On a dark, rainy night, an elderly couple finds a shivering little boy on their doorstep who proclaims "I was a rat." They take the boy in, but because of his odd rat-like behavior, people in the town declare the boy a monster. To save him, the couple must discover the truth of who he is, before it's too late.
17) Brainiacs. com
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Eleven-year-old Matt Tyler devises a plan to buy his father's company, Tyler Toys, so his dad has to work less and spend more time with the family. So Matt and his friend Danny start up TheBrainiacs.com to attract investors in a microchip that his sister Kelly is inventing. The money rolls in and through on-line trading, the "cyberkids" buy enough stock to take over Dad's company. Unfortunately, they find the company is deep in debt, and a ruthless...
19) The Basket
Author
Description
In the midst of a nation reeling from WWI, two German orphans move from a wartime internment camp to a Pacific Northwest farming community where they find both support and hostility from others who have lost sons in the war.
Author
Description
Take the well-known fable of Jack and the Beanstalk with a contemporary twist, and on his beanstalk adventure, Jack learns the sacrifices he must make, or fail his fairy tale class just like his father. Can Jack find the true meaning of what a hero is and become the hero he really wants to be?
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