Category: Family

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2010s / Animation / Family / Fantasy

The Boxtrolls (2014)

Alan Snow’s 2005 illustrated novel, “Here Be Monsters!”, provides the basis for this loose-hanging adaptation, set in the Victorian-era cobblestone city of Cheesebridge, where a community of cardboard box-wearing trolls lives underground.  The peace-loving...

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1980s / Comedy / Family / Musical

Annie (1982)

Annie is a musical that has become a fan favorite for those who grew up watching it, though film critics in general have remained rather tepid toward it, citing that it is overblown and clunky. ...

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1950s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Romance

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Very loosely based on the story by Charles Perrault, as well as the reinterpretation by the Brothers Grimm, this now-classic Disney film would initially prove a financial disappointment that would see the studio get...

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2010s / Animation / Comedy / Family

Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

When the kids leave the arcade, the game characters come to life (in their own cyber world, anyway — akin to Toy Story). Wreck-It Ralph (Reilly) is a ‘bad-guy’ video game character who is tired...

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2010s / Adventure / Family / Fantasy

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Director Tim Burton teams up with Disney scribe Linda Woolverton in a visual tour-de-force telling of the classic story, which combines elements of the two Lewis Carroll allegories, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its...