Author Andrew O'Herir, of Salon.com, polled his readers for favorites among family films in dvd format. Here's the article Beyond the Multiplex from Salon.com.
O'Hehir writes: "A few words about what's not included. There are no Disney films made after the 1960s, and no major box-office hits of at least the last 30 years. There are quite a few family classics that could plausibly be included but got hardly any reader votes, probably because they seemed too obvious: "Mary Poppins," "The Sound of Music," "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," "The Wizard of Oz," "It's a Wonderful Life."If you remember a few of these movies,Labyrinth with David Bowie and a very young Jennifer Connelly, for example, you'll be able to assess their family quality. Labyrinth is a wonderful movie my daughters watched a bezillion times but Labyrinth and The Princess Bride and others can be a bit frightening the first time around. Of course, I wondered where The Neverending Story and Nannie McPhee were on the list ... but that's another blog post. The movies are linked to Amazon in the Salon.com article. Here's a partial list linked to our library catalog:
The Iron Giant
My Neighbor Totoro
The Princess Bride
Time Bandits
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
The Point
Born Free
The Yellow Submarine
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