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Actor-turned-director Jon Favreau SWINGERS ELF delivers another work of intelligent charming family fare with this space adventure based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg JUMANJI. Older brother Walter Josh Hutcherson and the younger Danny Jonah Bobo are constantly at war with one another bickering over the mediating voice of their long-suffering father Tim Robbins. When he has to go to the office to replace some papers the boys destroyed in their crossfire he leaves them in the dubious care of older sister Lisa Kristen Stewart who is sleeping upstairs. When Danny discovers an old board game called Zathura stored in the basement his excitement is lost on Walter who has no time for such old boring toys. Soon however the game becomes impossible to ignore as the boys are transported into space and one of them must win in order to make it home again. Each turn brings a new often dangerous surprise and the boys are faced with a murderous robot an explosive meteor shower and lizard-like aliens while poor Lisa is cry

Don Bluth's THE SECRET OF NIMH is an exquisitely drawn colorfully animated feature about Mrs. Brisby a brave mother field mouse who struggles to save her family's home from a farmer's plow. She soon discovers she needs the help of the strange intelligent rats who live beneath the nearby rosebush in an intricate city. But when the timid but determined Mrs. Brisby discovers the astounding wonders of NIMH it could change her life forever. From the Hitchcockian flashback sequence revealing the rats' secret to the moral questions raised about animal testing this film is a beautiful example of how animation can expertly tell a gripping story while still remaining appropriate and entertaining for children. Widely considered to be Bluth's masterpiece THE SECRET OF NIMH features a strong cast of vocal talent including Derek Jacobi John Carradine Dom DeLuise Elizabeth Hartman Wil Wheaton and Shannen Doherty.

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Based on the cult British television show from the 1960s THUNDERBIRDS explodes into the 21st Century with this thrilling live-action version of the franchise. Drawing on similar themes and familiar characters director Jonathan Frakes STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT sticks closely to the spirit of the original show while making use of the new technology available to him 40 years after the program first aired to give the film a modern look. The International Rescue organization--a team of highly organized law enforcers--is the focal point for the movie. International Rescue is based on a remote desert island location and is called into action whenever the world's sinister masterminds threaten to disturb the balance of society. Jeff Tracy Bill Paxton heads up the team and employs his sons to help him out. Teenager Alan Tracy Brady Corbet is a little too young to join and is constantly frustrated by his lack of opportunity to join the brothers on their missions. But when the evil villain known as The Hood Ben Kingsley t

This gentle, modern-day fairy tale explores a family trying to recover from a father's death. Katie is a combative 12-year-old; her brother Simon is almost mute; their mother desperately needs time to rebuild her life. She takes the kids to visit their dad's mother in Newfoundland where Grandmother Lydia (played with grounded depth by Marsha Mason) tells Katie she understands that she has "to stay angry or you'll forget him." Lydia says that "some people have the gift of seeing," and Katie and Simon prove her right when they meet Charles Nungesser and Fran??ois Coli, historical French aviation heroes who disappeared trying to beat Lindbergh across the Atlantic in 1927. These lost souls repeat their fateful crash into the swamp every time the fog comes in. Katie realizes they must finish the flight to enable their escape to heaven and begins the improbable task of raising their plane from the deep. The antagonistic relationship of the aristocratic and pompous Nungesser and his kindly navigator is portrayed with picaresque charm by the charismatic Lothaire Bluteau and the humanistic Michel Monty. Nungesser bemoans being beaten by a "mailman," while Coli mourns the loss of his wife and child. Resurrecting L'Oiseau Blanc helps Katie interact positively with people and develop friendships. By the magical climax, she learns what inspired her father to be a test pilot. --Lloyd Chesley

Based on the cult British television show from the 1960s THUNDERBIRDS explodes into the 21st Century with this thrilling live-action version of the franchise. Drawing on similar themes and familiar characters director Jonathan Frakes STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT sticks closely to the spirit of the original show while making use of the new technology available to him 40 years after the program first aired to give the film a modern look. The International Rescue organization--a team of highly organized law enforcers--is the focal point for the movie. International Rescue is based on a remote desert island location and is called into action whenever the world's sinister masterminds threaten to disturb the balance of society. Jeff Tracy Bill Paxton heads up the team and employs his sons to help him out. Teenager Alan Tracy Brady Corbet is a little too young to join and is constantly frustrated by his lack of opportunity to join the brothers on their missions. But when the evil villain known as The Hood Ben Kingsley t

Release Date: 2006-05-08, Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)

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Akari made the cut! Now, her life gets really strange. Akari's trip into space to train on the University Satelite Sports Academy is interrupted by three hijackers with very odd tactics. Then, she meets her roommate who brought a cow from the moon, and her coach who can only eat chocolate to survive! Just as she thinks things can't get any worse, she and her teammates discover that they can't seem to win a single match in the competition - will Akari lose so soon?!