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Films for Kids

Hollywood does not care about your kids. They only care about selling kitch.

Black Stallion *
BIG *
Babe *
Princess Bride
Peewee's Big Adventure *
Home Alone
Sister Act
Night at the Opera (Marx Brothers) *
Duck Soup (Marx Brothers)
The Kid (Charlie Chaplin) *
Yearling *
Yellow Submarine (Beatles Animation) *
Rescuers Down Under
The Great Race
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
ET The Extra Terrestrial
Swiss Family Robinson
Radio Flyer (perhaps scary)
How to Train Your Dragon (I haven't seen it actually, but very good reviews)
Jumanji (a bit scary)
Coraline (animated, may be a bit scary) *
James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl story)
Rango
Fantastic Mr. Fox *
Spirited Away (Japanese Anime, beautiful story) *
Howl's Moving Castle
Ponyo (animated)
Despicable Me (animated) *
Apollo 13
Back to the Future *
Bad News Bears
Duck Soup (Marx Brothers)
Fiddler on the Roof (a bit long winded)
Gold Rush (Chaplin)
National Velvet
Chicken Run
Hard Day's Night (Beatles) *
Help (Beatles) *
Wall-E
Wallace and Gromit: the Curse of the Were Rabbit
Ratatouille *
Iron Giant
Bugsy Malone (unusual children's version of a gangster story)
Winged Migration
Nightmare Before Christmas
Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original, 1971)
Whale Rider
Up
How to Train Your Dragon (so I keep hearing: haven't seen it myself)
The Camera Man (Buster Keaton)
The General (Buster Keaton)
City Lights (Chaplin)
Polar Express (Christmas)
Zathura (similar to Jumanjii, also by Chris Van Allsburg)
Miracle on 34th Street (the original, from 1954 NOT the remake; actually a pretty good children's movie)

Best paragraph from a movie review this year (Manohla Dargis, NY Times, on "Extremely Loud a& Incredibly Close".)