Family movies
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Mystery , produced in 2002, Germany, UK, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) returns to Hogwarts School of Wizardry for his second year. After a confrontation with a house elf named Dobby, Harry escapes to the Weasley house with Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) in a flying car. They are then late for the train and have to ride it to school. When they get there, strange happenings invade the school. "Mudbloods" (people of Muggle families) are "petrified" by an evil monster lurking in the grounds. When every one suspects that it is him, the trio then set out to find the culprit and find out more than they bargained for: the diary of Tom Riddle, why Hagrid was expelled and what the Chamber of Secrets is and why is it so feared in Hogwarts.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Adventure / Family / Fantasy , produced in 2001, UK, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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On his 11th birthday, young Harry Potter discovers the life he never knew he had, the life of a wizard. In his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he meets his two best friends Ron Weasley, an expert at Wizard Chess, and Hermione Granger, a girl with non-magic parents. Harry learns the game of Quiditch and Wizard Chess on his way to facing a Dark Arts teacher who is bent on destroying him.
Short Circuit
Comedy / Family / Sci-Fi , produced in 1986, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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A nice robot named Number 5 is stoked by the lightning but becomes even better then he was – Number 5 has got his own consciousness and learns how to feel and think by himself. Plunging into human culture and experience, he doesn't want to return to his military past. He meets a friendly woman named Stephanie (Ally Sheedy) who'd like to help him escape from the military and to convince them that the robot isn't dangerous any more.
Monsters, Inc.
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy , produced in 2001, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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They are monsters but they are not scary at all, some of them are even sweet and funny. They live in the world behind our closet doors, in the city of Monstropolis. The city dwellers work for Monsters Inc., a gigantic corporation which specializes in scaring human kids and generating energy from their screams. The funniest thing is that even skilled scream-generators such as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (John Goodman), a huge monster with blue fur and horns, and his bustling dude Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal), a green one-eyed monster, are terrified of kids! And when a fearless little girl, Boo (Mary Gibbs), follows Sully into the factory, she turns the monster world topsy-turvy!
Ice Age
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family , produced in 2002, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
Description:
Early mammals have hard times: the Ice Age is come! An action of this computer-animated movie takes place twenty thousand years ago, when Arctic glaciers approached close to the motherland of Manny (voiced by Ray Romano), Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo) and Scrat (Wedge), who respectively are a mammoth, a sloth and a side-splitting saber-tooth squirrel. Freezing temperatures and the command of evil tigers oblige them to fight for survival, from time to time animals get into different hilarious and threatening situations, trying to save the human child which was torn from its tribe as a result of the tiger assault. Manny and Sid want to return the infant to his father when the demonic saber-toothed striped villain named Diego (Denis Leary) claims his rights to this child.
Shrek
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Romance , produced in 2001, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
Description:
Once upon a time, in a far away kingdom, there lived a big green ogre named Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers). He led a solitary life in his own smelly swamp in the woods. One day the evil midget - Lord Farquaad (voiced by John Lithgow), the ruler of Duloc – banished all the familiar fairy tale characters to Shrek's swamp land. Unfortunately for the ogre, his peaceful life has an end. To get rid of annoying settlers, Shrek must rescue the beautiful Princess Fiona (voiced by Cameron Diaz), confined to the tower and guarded by a fire-spouting dragon, and convince her to be Farquaad's wife. Accompanied by the garrulous and wisecracking Donkey (voiced by Eddie Murphy), Shrek makes his way to the distant castle and, on his quest, gets involved in a set of bizarre situations.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Adventure / Family / Fantasy , produced in 2004, UK, USA , added: 03 Mar 2005
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Harry Potter, Ron and Germiona continue studying at the Hogwarts. Third year of study brings the new mystery: the condemned magician escaped from the ominous Azkaban prison, so Harry's life is under a deadly threat. Terrible dementors are lurking around the Hogwarts, trying to track down the dangerous fugitive, and a howl of wolves is being brought by the wind from neighbouring forests...
The Haunted Mansion
Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Horror , produced in 2003, USA , added: 19 May 2005
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Are you scared of ghosts? You should not even approach a gloomy old mansion with its squeaky doors and dark corridors. Hoping to make the biggest deal of his career, carefree estate agent Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) decides to buy a desolate mansion, located on a remote bayou, in order to reconstruct it for resale. Accompanied by his wife Sara (Marsha Thomason) and two kids, Jim pays a visit to the estate to check out the property. But it soon becomes clear that the Evers are not the only owners of the estate. The other tenants of the house are 999 creepy ghosts that don’t relish the idea of sharing their eeire cosy nook with impudent and noisy people. Nobody wants to concede the house, therefore a real war of nerves breaks out between the Evers family and the scheming haunts. However, the ghosts have great advantage over their rivals – they have no nerves!..
The Incredibles
Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2004, USA , added: 28 Jun 2005
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Metroville was once flooded with superheroes saving the day. One of the greatest was Mr. Incredible, who found himself annoyed by the young chatterbox fanatic of his, Buddy Pine, who referred to himself as 'Incrediboy.' As Mr. Incredible fought crime, he met another legendary hero, Elastigirl and the two superheroes wed. shortly afterward, a string of lawsuits banned superheroes from ever saving the day again! 15 years later, Mr. Incredible, now known as Bob Parr is itching to become a superhero again. Mrs. Incredible, or Helen Parr, is trying to persuade him not to. Their son, Dash, who has the ability to run extremely quickly, wants to try out for sports, but he can't because of his powers being revealed. Violet, the Parr's daughter, wants to be normal and fit in as a teen. And the baby, Jack-Jack is only itching for a good time. Then, Bob hears about a top secret assignment regarding a powerful machine attacking Nomanisan Island. Thinking this is his way to become a superhero again, Bob accepts and yet again becomes Mr. Incredible...however, this anonymous villain has a grudge...
Madagascar
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family , produced in 2005, USA , added: 13 Jul 2005
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This animation story tells about the adventures of NY Zoo inhabitants – Alex the Lion (voice of Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (voice of Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (voice of David Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippo (voice of Jada Pinkett Smith). They are best friends and when one of them goes missing, the other three break out of the zoo looking for him. They meet again onboard the vessel heading to Africa, but en venue the ship gets capsized and the friends find themselves on the strand of Madagascar. Finally, after the series of adventures they figure out that the wildlife is more difficult than their well-provided life at the Zoo.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy , produced in 2005, USA , added: 14 Jul 2006
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Charlie loves chocolate, but he comes from a needy family and can’t afford even a little bit of the desired sweet. His penniless, but loving family lives by the walls of the mysterious Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, and the last thing Charlie sees falling asleep is the magic building. He is dreaming about the secrets, hidden inside this amazing building of the most celebrating candy company. Eventually, he gets a chance to take there. While the Wonka's confectionery plant is usually closed to any visitors, the candy man who is famously living in seclusion decides to let the only five pleased children in to see the inside of his manufacture by placing five desired "golden tickets" in five different chocolate bars. Along with four other children, Charlie explores the astonishing world of the eccentric Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp). A really amazing movie, for Johnny Depp it’s just another film of a chocolate theme and another perfect role.
Finding Nemo
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family , produced in 2003, USA , added: 17 Jul 2006
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This is a tale of clownfish Marlin (Albert Brooks) and his son Nemo (Alexander Gould) who are separated from each other in the Great Barrier Reef. Marlin doesn’t even suspect that the curious Nemo has been captured by a diver and placed in a fish tank in a dentist surgery overlooking Sydney Harbor. Can’t father and son ever see each other? Nothing of the kind! In the ocean there is 3.7 billion fish, and Marlin is determined to alarm everyone to search the sea for his missing son. Along with Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), a forgetful yet friendly blue tang; Bruce (Barry Humphries), a considerate great white shark on a no-fish diet; Crush (director/screenwriter Stanton), a funny surfer-dude sea turtle; Peach (Allison Janney), a stuck-to-the-aquarium starfish; and Nigel (Geoffrey Rush), a good-natured and bold pelican, our hero sets out on a desperate search to rescue his prodigal son. There are no age limits to enjoying this motion picture!
Hoodwinked!
Animation / Comedy / Family , produced in 2005, USA , added: 28 Aug 2006
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A well-known tale of the Little Red Riding Hood gets a new interpretation in this computer-animated comedy for the whole family. You think that you know this story well? Absolutely not! While Chief Grizzly (Xzibit) and Detective Bill Stork (Anthony Anderson) investigate a domestic disturbance at Granny's (Glenn Close) cottage, it becomes clear that the Red Riding Hood (Anne Hathaway) owes a karate black belt, the Wolf (Patrick Warburton) isn't the blood-thirsty predator and an oafish Woodsman (Jim Belushi) doesn't have much of an intellectual advantage over the trees he chops down and the figure of the elusive Goody Bandit looms up over the story.
The NeverEnding Story
Adventure / Family / Fantasy , produced in 1984, USA, West Germany , added: 04 Sep 2006
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Chased by school bullies, reprimanded by his father for daydreaming too much Bastian is lost in his own world. Bastian escapes school bullies one rainy day by hiding in an old used book store. After explaining his predicament to the old clerk Bastian notices a large leather bound book with a symbol of two snakes intertwined into an emblem. Soon after the clerk warns Bastian that this book is not for him Bastian, rushes away with it "borrowing" it, while the clerk is in another room. Taking refuge in the attic of his school Bastian opens the book, and a world of fantasy. Learning that the wonderous, beautiful land of Fantasia is being destroyed by a terrible "Nothing" Bastian is taken deeper into the story. Soon discovering the ChildLike Empress is deathly ill, the cause; she needs a new name. A young warrior named Atreyu is called and Bastian follows his adventures, unknowing that he, himself is slowly being written into the mysterious book. Soon realizing that he is now written in the book Bastian realizes that the only one who can save Fantasia is him.
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family , produced in 2005, UK , added: 03 Nov 2006
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It's 'vege-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a "humane" pest control outfit has its drawbacks as their West Wallaby Street home fills to the brim with captive rabbits. Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging "beast" begins attacking the town's sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington's snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who'd rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero-not to mention Lady Tottingon's hand in marriage. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor's real intent could have dire consequences for her ...and our two heroes.
Elf
Comedy / Family / Fantasy , produced in 2003, USA , added: 11 Dec 2006
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One Christmas Eve an orphan baby crawls into Santa’s sack to play hide-and-seek. Thus he accidently finds himself in the North Pole where he is reared by his adoptive elf father. When he grows to be three times the size of his elf family, his father realizes Buddy will never fit into the elf world and tells him the truth. This holiday season, Buddy sets off for New York City to find his roots. In Big Applethe innocent elf faces with all kinds of humorous trouble. First he seeks out his real father, Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a workaholic publisher, who has lost the Christmas spirit. Walter doesn’t believe Buddy is who or what he says he is. Buddy also discovers his stepmother Emily (Mary Steenburgen) and his ten-year-old stepbrother Michael (Daniel Tay) who doesn’t believe in Christmas or Santa. In fact, everyone seems to have forgotten the true meaning of Christmas. Fortunately, buddy encounters Jovie (Zooey Deschanel), a beautiful department store elf, who supports him to save Christmas for New York and the world.
Home Alone
Comedy / Crime / Family , produced in 1990, USA , added: 13 Dec 2006
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An eight-year-old boy named Kevin McAllister(Macaulay Culkin) ends up being left home alone by his neglectful parents when they rush off for their Christmas vacation to France. The boy proves to be very inventive and fearless. When two clumsy, ill-starred crooks, Marv (Daniel Stern) and Harry (Joe Pesci), decide to burgle his house, Kevin bravely defends himself and his home from the criminals by setting all sorts of cunning traps everywhere.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy , produced in 2000, Germany, USA , added: 13 Dec 2006
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Once upon a time, in the magical land of Whoville, there lived a little man named the Grinch (Jim Carrey). The Grinch was different from the townspeople: he was green and hairy, so the Who's teased him all the time. The Grinch took offence at the Who's and made his home high atop Mt. Crumpit where he lived for 30 years. He hated the Who's and Christmas with an equal hatred. Each Christmas with its festivities, decorations, presents and carols was sheer torture to the green hermit. One day the spiteful mountain dweller decided to deprive the Who's of Christmas once and for all. As soon as the carefree Who's went to sleep on Christmas Eve, the treacherous Grinch slunk into the town in order to steal everything associated with their favourite holiday.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical , produced in 1993, USA , added: 18 Dec 2006
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Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is tired of the same old thing every year. He wanders into the woods and finds some holiday trees and each has a town in it. He goes to the Christmas one and finds himself in Christmas Town. He likes the idea, tells the town to the citizens and they decide to make their own Christmas with their own twist.
Toy Story 2
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy , produced in 1999, USA , added: 19 Dec 2006
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In this hilarious fantasy movie, Andy (John Morris) goes off to summer camp, leaving his toy friends to their own devices. When Andy's mother (Laurie Metcalf) decides to take some old items for a yard sale, Woody the Cowboy (Tom Hanks) sets off to rescue the toy penguin Wheezy (Joe Ranft). Al McWiggin (Wayne Knight), a toy store owner and collector, notices the cowboy doll and offers $50 for him but Andy's mom refuses, knowing that Woody is a highly valued collectible. Determined to get Woody for his collection, the malicious man steals the toy. At Al's apartment Woody meets other collectible toys, Stinky Pete the Prospector (Kelsey Grammer), a horse named Bullseye and Jessie, the Yodeling Cowgirl (Joan Cusack), and discovers that the greedy toy collector is about to sell them to a Japanese toy museum. Meanwhile, Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen), Mr. Potato Head (voice of Don Rickles), Rex (voice of Wallace Shawn), Slinky Dog (voice of Jim Varney), and Hamm (voice of John Ratzenberger) spring into an action to find their fellow toy before Andy returns home from the camp.
The Ant Bully
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy , produced in 2006, USA , added: 22 Jan 2007
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Lucas is a ten-year kid whose family has just moved to a new town, and he is having troubles with the local bullies. Tired from it, the boy looks for someone he can push around - and he soon finds a way to take out his frustration on the ants living in his lawn. Tired of weathering constant attacks on their colony, ants shrink Lucas to their size and sentence him to live among them until he learns the errors of his ways through some labour-therapy. Lucas realizes how a world he never knew existed lives and soon joins forces with his new friends to struggle against an exterminator (Paul Giamatti) who threatens their colony. This computer-animated comedy-adventure is post-scored with the voices of Julia Roberts, Regina King, Alan Cumming and the other actors.
Shrek the Third
Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy , produced in 2007, USA , added: 01 Aug 2007
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Not everyone can be a king, especially if you are a clumsy, ugly ogre. When Shrek (Mike Myers) married Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), the last thing he wanted was to rule the land of Far Far Away. But when Fiona's father, King Harold (John Cleese), unexpectedly draws his last breath, it is Shrek who becomes the successor of the throne. However, he flatly refuses to carry a burden of power and sets out to retrieve the legitimate heir Arthur Pendragon (Justin Timberlake), along with his trusted companions Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas). During the green ogre's absence, his old enemy, the power-hungry and malicious Prince Charming (Rupert Everett), rallies all fairy-tale villains and returns to Far Far Away meditating a coup d'état. Shrek will have to move heaven and earth to foil the schemes of his foes and save his pregnant wife and his kingdom.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy , produced in 2007, UK, USA , added: 01 Aug 2007
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Trouble brews as Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts begins. The authorities are ignoring Harry and Dumbledore's warnings of Voldemort's return, causing his fellow classmates to view him with disdain. Meanwhile, a new witch assumes control at Hogwarts, throwing the entire school into chaos. Will Harry lose everything?
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical , produced in 1971, USA , added: 08 Aug 2007
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Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by 'Gene Wilder'(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by 'Jack Albertson' (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done?
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Family , produced in 2006, USA , added: 16 Aug 2007
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Manny (Ray Romano), Sid (John Leguizamo), and Diego (Denis Leary) are currently living in a large valley surrounded by an enormously high ice wall on all sides. When a waterpark begins to form, the trio discovers that the ice wall is actually a wall that is barely holding a massive body of water that could flood the valley to nearly a mile underwater. A vulture tells them that there is a boat at the other end of the valley that may save them all, but they only have 3 days to make it or die. Manny is having trouble facing the fact that he may be the last mammoth left. Along the way, they meet Ellie (Queen Latifah), a mammoth who thinks she is a possum, and her possum brothers Crash (Sean William Scott) and Eddie (Josh Peck). As they begin to travel together, Manny learns, with help from Diego and Sid, that having this new mammoth with them, may not be as bad as Manny makes it out to be while they try to escape the oncoming and continually threatening flood. During their journey, Scrat the sabre-toothed squirrel has his own hilarious adventures that eventually leads to something else entirely.
Cars
Animation / Comedy / Family / Sport , produced in 2006, USA , added: 22 Aug 2007
Description:
The animated movie revolves around a successful but arrogant race car, Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson), who is used to fame, floodlights, crowds of groupies and a high-speed life. En route to California for the tie-break of the Piston Cup against two skilled opponents, Chick Hicks (Michael Keaton) and The King (Richard Petty), the indomitable McQueen unexpectedly runs astray in the small remote town of Radiator Springs on Route 66. After destroying the town’s main road, Lightning is sentenced to community service by the local judge Doc Hudson (Paul Newman). Stuck in the godforsaken town, he eventually makes friends with its nice inhabitants, an attractive Porsche attorney, Sally Carerra (Bonnie Hunt); a rusty wrecker tow truck, Mater (Larry the Cable Guy); a tire shop owner, Luigi (Tony Shalhoub), and many others. They open his eyes to a whole new world and help him understand the true meaning of life that there are more important and worthier things than fame and fortune.
Eight Below
Adventure / Drama / Family , produced in 2006, USA , added: 27 Aug 2007
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Due to force majeure circumstances three members of a scientific expedition — survival guide Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker), cartographer Charlie Cooper (Jason Biggs), and geologist Davis McClaren (Bruce Greenwood) – are ordered to evacuate the National Science Foundation Research Base in Antarctica. As there is no room on board plane for their dogsled team, they reluctantly leave their smart and devoted four-footed friends, vowing to return in a few weeks and rescue them.
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Comedy / Family , produced in 2007, France, Germany, UK, USA , added: 11 Sep 2007
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The mostly wordless, hopelessly gawky but good-natured and sweet Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is about to leave the misty Albion for southern France to spend his vacation baking in the sun. As might be expected, Mr. Bean can only dream about a tranquil trip. He unwittingly gets plunged into a string of serious mishaps and lucky coincidences, from violent efforts to catch the train to an unplanned screening of his personal video footage at the Cannes Film Festival.
Night at the Museum
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy , produced in 2006, UK, USA , added: 11 Sep 2007
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Meet Larry Daley (Ben Stiller), an unemployed single father and a born loser. In an attempt to regain authority with his son Nicky (Jake Cherry), Larry takes a job as a graveyard-shift security guard at the Museum of Natural History. In his first nightshift, he sees extraordinary things occurring: all the exhibits come to life (due to an old Egyptian stone). When Larry takes his son to work with him, three former guards break into the museum to steal the magic stone, and Larry proves to Nicky that he is, indeed, a great man. He shows his savvy and bravery by organizing the historic characters to help him arrest the criminals and save the museum.
Eragon
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy , produced in 2006, UK, USA , added: 10 Oct 2007
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The fantasy-adventure movie revolves around an orphaned teenage farm boy named Eragon (Edward Speleers) whose life is changed forever when he finds an egg from which hatches a baby dragon, Saphira (Rachel Weisz). She communicates telepathically with Eragon, informing him of his being the last of a breed of once powerful and magnanimous Dragon Riders. Eragon also learns that the beautiful land of Alaga?sia is now ruled by the corrupt King Galbatorix (John Malkovich) and it’s up to him to fight for freedom against the evil sorcerer Durza (Robert Carlyle) and the army of Galbatorix.
