Top 10 Movies for Families from 2001
THE PRINCESS DIARIES
Newcomer Anne Hathaway stars in THE PRINCESS DIARIES as Mia Thermopolis, an awkward 15-year-old girl in San Francisco. One day, Mia is stunned to learn that her grandmother has just shown up and wants to have tea with her. Mia is resentful.…
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MONSTERS, INC.
MONSTERS, INC. takes place in Monstropolis, a thriving company town where monsters of all shapes and sizes reside. John Goodman plays James P. Sullivan (“Just call me Sulley,” he says), the top kid scarer for Monsters, Inc. Sulley’s job is to jump…
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JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS
The new G-rated animated movie, JIMMY NEUTRON: BOY GENIUS, is smart, funny, exciting, entertaining, and full of great moral messages that will have audiences cheering. In the story, the precocious Jimmy and his friends decide to sneak out of the house to…
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SHADOW MAGIC
SHADOW MAGIC is a magical film which has nothing to do with the occult arts; rather, it is the fictionalized true story of the first motion picture introduced in Peking, China, in 1902. Liu Jinglun is the chief photographer at the Feng…
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SPY KIDS
SPY KIDS is a James Bond adventure for children, with a Hispanic flavor. For years, Ingrid Cortez has told her children the bedtime story of “The Spies Who Fell in Love.” Her children, Carmen and Juni, don’t suspect that the spies in…
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SHREK
Mike Myers plays the title role in SHREK, a fractured fairy tale about a smelly ogre with a bad disposition. Shunned by the human townspeople around him, Shrek is a cynical, no-nonsense creature, whose swamp has been overrun by annoying fairy tale…
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THE DISH
THE DISH was the largest grossing movie in Australia last year. The story is about the Australian crew of one of the two satellite dishes tracking Apollo 11, the first manned flight to land on the moon. Leading the crew is a…
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ENDURANCE: SHACKLETON’S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION
ENDURANCE: SHACKLETON’S LEGENDARY ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION focuses on Ernest Shackleton’s last great expedition to try to cross Antarctica in 1914. Shackleton puts an ad in the English newspaper saying "low wages," "bitter cold," "return doubtful," and other such daunting warnings. As a result,…
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