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A family-friendly guide to the movies. We review all kinds of movies, but our focus always asks the question - "Is this movie family-friendly?"
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Movie Review: Princess & The Frog
The Princess & The Frog Rated G Running Time:1 Hour 35 minutes Walt Disney Animation Studios rolls out its second animated movie for the 2009 Christmas season. This time around it’s the musical The Princess and the Frog, an animated com...
Movie Review: Invictus
Invictus PG-13 for brief strong language. Running Time: 2 hours 12 minutes Invictus tells the true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President ...
Movie Review: A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol – 2009 PG for scary sequences and images. Running Time: 1 hour 36 minutes Disney’s A Christmas Carol, a multi-sensory thrill ride re-envisioned by Academy Award winning filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, goes after the fanta...
Movie Review: Where The Wild Things Are
Where The Wild Things Are PG for mild thematic elements, some adventure action and brief language. Running Time: 1 hour 34 minutes Maurice Sendak’s classic book comes to life on the big screen in this adventure tale. Where the Wild Things A...
Movie Review: Fame
Fame – 2009 Rated PG for thematic material including teen drinking, a sexual situation and language. Running Time: 1 hour 42 minutes This is a reinvention of the original Oscar winning hit film Fame. It also follows a talented group of danc...
Movie Review: All About Steve
All About Steve PG-13 for sexual content including innuendos. Running Time: 1 hour 38 minutes Crossword puzzle constructor Mary Horowitz, played by Sandra Bullock, is smart, pretty and a natural disaster that shakes news cameraman Steve to the co...
Movie Review: Adam
Adam PG-13 for thematic material, sexual content and language. Running Time: 1 hour 35 minutes The boy and girl in Adam are no ordinary characters. It’s also worth noting their romance is anything but familiar. Soon after moving in, Beth, a ...
Movie Review: (500) Days of Summer
(500) Days of Summer PG-13 for sexual material and language. Running Time: 1 hour 35 minutes (500) Days of Summer is described as a post modern love story with some interesting twists along the way. It’s thorny, yet exhilarating and funny an...
Movie Review: The Proposal
The Proposal PG-13 for sexual content, nudity and language. Running Time: 1 hour 47 minutes When a high-powered book editor faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking executive declares she’s actually engaged to her unsusp...
Movie Review: Land of the Lost
Land of the Lost 2 Lloyds - Cautionary Family-Friendly PG-13 for crude and sexual content, and for language including a drug reference. Running Time: 1 hour 33 minutes Will Ferrell stars as a has-been scientist named Dr. Rick Marshall, who suddenly...
