Can you recommend movies to watch with 8 and 11 yo?
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We do one night a week of family movie night. When kids were little we didn’t watch a lot of Disney movies but I will be honest I am itching to get out of those. Can you recommend movies that are not animation, but w/o too much profanity or sex. I don’t mind the range of topics - happy to talk to kids if they find it hard to follow. We recently watched Hunt for Red October and they need some explanation about why Sean Connery character wanted to be in America but I think everyone enjoyed the movie.
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| My 9 yo loved My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Still recites the lines. |
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The best ever movie dance... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H11mlCL-dkE |
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Our kids always get sucked into nature documentaries, surprisingly. David Attenborough is a gift.
We also LOVED Enola Homes. |
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The Martian
Apollo 13 League of their Own Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Hamilton We also do a lot of underdog sports movies: Rudy, Sandlot, there are a lot more but they run together |
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I don’t think these have a lot of profanity or sex, but I encourage you to check Common Sense Media or the IMDB Parent’s Guide.
Jumanji Nim’s Island Akeelah and the Bee Journey to the Center of the Earth Star Wars Sound of Music These might be too much like the Disney fairy tales you’re burnt out on, but they’re really well done adaptations that offer different takes: Ever After Ella Enchanted Hook (caution, a child dies at the end) Also, Disney had a lot of live action movies like: Night at the Museum Sky High Sorcerer’s Apprentice Honey I Shrunk the Kids Classic movies are great. Decades of great filmmaking that was generally clean. Restricting profanity is likely to severely restrict more current options. I absolutely respect you selecting movies according to your family values. Our family just said that movies/TV was not the place to learn vocabulary, and that seemed to work for us. Especially after they started school, I assumed they were probably hearing a lot of the language there, anyway. |
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Enola Holmes, ET, Night at the Museums, Marvel movies, Star Wars movies, Back to the Future
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The Secret Garden
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Black Beauty (1994)
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When I was a kid in the 1970s, we had movie week themes after school.
Gidget Week Elvis Week Godzilla Week Annette and Frankie Beach Week I don't know if your children would like those movies. We didn't have cable until the early 1980s. And our parents were teenagers in the 1950s/1960s so we liked movies and music from that era, which were mostly rated "G." Wikipedia calls it the 4:30 p.m. movie. I lived in the Midwest, so it was the 3:30 p.m. movie. "The 4:30 Movie is a television program that aired weekday afternoons on WABC-TV (Channel 7) in New York from 1968 to 1981. The program was mainly known for individual theme weeks devoted to theatrical feature films or made-for-TV movies starring a certain actor or actress, or to a particular genre, or to films that spawned sequels. The more popular episodes were "Monster Week," "Planet of the Apes Week" and "Vincent Price Week." Some films, such as Ben-Hur and How the West Was Won, were of such length that an entire week was devoted to running the whole movie. Other films that ran longer than the program's 90-minute length were often divided into two parts and shown over two days." |
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