Hi Everyone!
Here’s a list of movies for your family to watch tonight and this weekend (with and without the kids, before and after bedtime) Have fun!
~Rebecca Conroy
Mean Girls
2004. PG-13. Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
What About Bob?
1991. PG. Bill Murray shines! A successful psychotherapist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients, a manipulative, obsessively compulsive narcissist, tracks him down during his family vacation.
The Shining
1980. R. Auteur Stanley Kubrick takes us on a horrific voyage inside the mind and hallways of a man and hotel in the snow. A family heads to this isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
1987. R. Always hilarious, and as good as when you first saw it. A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with an obnoxious slob of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion. John Candy and Steve Martin are a great couple who take humor to the best level.
Zoolander
2001. PG-13. At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Too funny, and too classic. Always a fave.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004. R. Auteur Michel Gondry’s best relationship film ever. When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a procedure to have each other erased from their memories. But it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.
Ice Age
2002. PG. Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe. Starring the voices of Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Ray Romano, Jack Black, and Lorri Bagley.
Fargo
1996. R. Jerry Lundegaard’s inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen’s bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson. Coen Brothers’ winter fun.
Misery
1990. R. After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.
Edward Scissorhands
1990. PG-13. A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation. One of Tim Burton’s finest films, and teenagers love it as much as we do.
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
2005. PG. Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.
Happy Feet
2006. PG. This adorable Oscar-winning tale is about the world of Emperor Penguins who find their soul mates through song.
Little Women
1994. PG. The March sisters live and grow up in post-Civil War America. Starring Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, and Christian Bale.
Frozen
Need I explain?
Mystery Alaska
1999. R. Comedy about an amateur Canadian ice hockey team from a small town in Alaska who get to play an exhibition game against the New York Rangers.
Hanna
2011. This is an awesome action thriller that has fairy tale elements. It’s about a girl raised in the wilderness of northern Finland by her father, an ex-CIA operative, who trains her to be an assassin.
Cool Runnings
1993. PG. sports film loosely based on the true story of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team’s showdown during the competition during the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.
Uncle Buck
1989. PG. comedy starring John Candy, Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffman, Macaulay Culkin, and Laurie Metcalf.
Here’s the trailer, because I had to: