Good Films for American Girls and Boys

Distribution Sources | September 2004 | Self

[PJ-Comix]

300 SPARTANS

Now discounted to 299 Spartans.

[bootless]

Father Goose bump! (Great minds and all that)

[PJ-Comix]

TORA, TORA, TORA

Now being reshown as a religious movie: TORAH, TORAH, TORAH.

[bootless]

Mars Attacks!!

ACK- AAACCCK!!

[Psycho_Bunny]

The Seven Samurai, while a terrific film, is a tad violent.

[PJ-Comix]

THE BLUE MAX, 1966 Boys are bound to love this adventure in biplanes and triplanes.

To say nothing of Ursula Andress Andressing in a towel.

[tai-pan]

The 2nd disc in my set skips something awful!!

[Chemist_Geek]

I don't know, it depends on the child, but I'd also recommend Hanks' HBO miniseries From The Earth To The Moon. It's longer and much more detailed, but it's clean and positive.

[luckystarmom]

All time great kid movie is the Wizard of Oz.

My kids all liked the Shirley Temple movies.

Lord of the Rings movies for older kids(violent, but no bad language or sex, and a great message)

We also like Signs. It's one of my girls favorite movies, and I like it's message about faith.

There is a DVD version of Donny Osmond in Andrew Lloyd Weber's The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat that is a great DVD. It's has great music, a great Bible story, and it is very colorful. I love the music!

I'll have to think about some other ones.

[tai-pan]

I got the DVD's for my brother but sisters won't sit still for them.

[Maigrey]

Let me add The Rifleman for good message show.

[MHT]

The value of Sargent York and High Noon cannot be forgotten, or just about any John Wayne flick. It's a Wonderful Life is a classic, as well as Come to the Stable, which makes me cry everytime I watch it. I also like To Each His Own, a real tearjerker about adoption. I really loved Of Human Hearts (1938) with James Stewart. In fact, 1938-1939 was the best year(s) ever in the history of movie-making in the US. Rent any of them and you have a winner.

[Maigrey]

I'll throw in one of my favorites:
1952's The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.

[Mike Fieschko]

"Our Vines Have Tender Grapes"

Is that the one with the scene where the snow covered church at Christmas changes to . . . ? (Spoiler removed.)

[Kornev]

Take it back. All mine are working great.

[Bandaneira]

Three Good Movies for Children...

The Black Stallion
The Never Ending Story
Star Wars

[wardaddy]

Since you two are apparently pretty swift on movies...any ideas where to get a copy of an old Coronet version of the animated Littlest Angel....not the newer 70s/80s version but the old one.

They always showed it at Christmas at my public grade school in the 60s....lol...imagine the uproar that would cause today.

thanx

[Victoria Delsoul]

These are just a few - starting with the oldie goldies…

- Double Indemnity
- Gone with the wind
- Casablanca
- Dead Poet's Society
- Educating Rita
- Being There
- Braveheart
- Schindler's List
- Das Boot
- The Passion

[swampmonster]

I would include the Pink Panther movies starring Peter Sellers, the old Herbie movies starring Dean Jones, The Man from Snowy River, The African Queen, The Ghost and Mr Chicken (starring Don Knotts), Parent Trap (the Haley Mills version), and Tron.

My daughter and her girl cousins also like the old musicals such as My Fair Lady, Gigi, Mary Poppins, The Music Man, etc.

[Alberta's Child]

You like the Dead Poets Society, too? I think that's a great movie -- with an exceptional soundtrack.

Those are all good movies, though some of them might be too much for a kid -- the poster was looking for movies they could show their kids.