Crouching Tiger, Paint Your Wagon
Movies worth checking out
Not all of these movies are appropriate for children,
but they are entertaining. Screenit.com
and Kids-in-Mind.com
can help you screen movies for children, but it is always
best to watch them first.
Drama
- Simon
Birch (1998) - Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello,
Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn, Dana
Ivey. Even though Simon Birch is the smallest kid
in town, deep down he knows that he was born to do
something big! He's on a constant search to discover
his destiny, but somehow manages to find nothing but
trouble! Part drama, part comedy, part tear jerker.
MPAA Rating: PG.
Comedy
- Harvey
(1950) - James Stewart, Victoria Horne, Charles
Drake, Jesse White, Josephine Hull, Cecil Kellaway.
Stewart stars as the good-natured Elwood P. Dowd,
whose constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall
rabbit that only he can see. MPAA Rating: NR.
- Arsenic
and Old Lace (1944) - Cary Grant, Raymond Massey,
Priscilla Lane, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Jack Carson.
Cary Grant and a stellar cast romp through this classic
farce based on Joseph Kesselring's 1941 Broadway hit
and breezily directed by Frank Capra. Frazzled drama
critic Mortimer Brewster (Grant) has two aunts (Josephine
Hull and Jean Adair) who play lonely geezers with
poisoned libations, one sociopath brother (Raymond
Massey) who looks like Boris Karloff, one bonkers
bother (John Alexander) who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt,
one impatient new bride (Priscilla Lane) – and only
one night to make it turn out all right. MPAA Rating:
NR.
- What About Bob? - Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfus, Julie Haggerty, Charlie Korsmo, Kathryn Ebre. Bill Murray plays Bob Wiley, an obsessive-compulsive neurotic tracks down his new psychotherapist who is on vacation with his family. Hilarity ensues. MPAA Rating: PG.
Romantic comedy
- The
Shop Around the Corner (1940) - James Stewart,
Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut,
Sara Haden, Felix Bressart. Tell bickering Budapest
gift-shop workers Alfred and Klara that they love
each other and they might call you crazy. Each has
a secret pen pals known to them only as "Dear
Friend." What Alfred and Clara don't know, of
course, is that they are each other's "Dear Friend."
Remade with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan as You've Got
Mail. MPAA Rating: NR.
Suspense/thriller
- The
Manchurian Candidate (1962) - Frank Sinatra, Laurence
Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva,
James Gregory. Ask Major Bennett Marco (Sinatra) and
he'll say that Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey)
is a hero worthy of the Medal of Honor. But despite
what he says, Marco suspects otherwise. A bizarre,
recurring nightmare gives him the uneasy feeling that
Shaw is something far less heroic and far more insidious.
Is it possible that Shaw is a traitor? Can Marco convince
the Army of his suspicions? How does Shaw's powermad
mother (Lansbury) figure into this all? So many questions.
So precious little time... MPAA Rating: NR.
Horror
- The
Sixth Sense (1999) - Bruce Willis, Haley Joel
Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Trevor Morgan,
Donnie Wahlberg. When Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Willis),
a distinguished child psychologist, meets Cole Sear
(Haley Joel Osment - Forrest Gump)...a frightened,
confused eight-year-old, Dr. Crowe is completely unprepared
to learn the truth of what haunts young Cole. With
a riveting intensity you'll find thoroughly chilling
and utterly unforgettable, the discovery of Cole's
sixth sense leads them both to mysterious and unforeseeable
consequences! An unbelievable movie written and directed
by M. Night Shyamalan. MPAA Rating: PG-13.
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