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Take away the Fairy Godmother, and what have you got left from the Cinderella fable? The
story of a girl for whom a bad stroke of luck is no match for her internal strength and
purity of heart. Drew Barrymore plays Cinderella's alleged inspiration,...Read more
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Woody Allen as a worker ant with an inferiority complex? Sylvester Stallone as an affable
soldier ant who discovers that digging tunnels is cool? The animation playground we all
knew so well is turning into a theme park full of in-jokes for grownups....Read more
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Film buffs and critics can argue until their faces turn blue about whether this lavish
Dickensian musical deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968, but the movie
speaks for itself on grandly entertaining terms. Adapted from Dickens's...Read more
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Using revolutionary cameras, the directors of this French film (with minimal
English-language narration) have made an amazing chronicle of the insect world. There are
at least a dozen fascinating, memorable images, and the carnage is held to a...Read more
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The surprise hit of 1995, this splendidly entertaining family film was nominated for six
Academy Awards, including best picture, director, and screenplay, and deservedly won the
Oscar for its subtly ingenious visual effects. Babe is all about the...Read more
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What might have been a one-note family comedy becomes something more thanks to the comic
brilliance of costars Nathan Lane and Lee Evans, as well as the distinctive, dark-fable
look given the film by a little-known director named Gore Verbinksi....Read more
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When her father is declared missing in action during World War I, Elsie Wrigth (Florence
Hoath) goes to live in England with her cousin Frances Griffiths (Elizabeth Earl) for whom
the topic of fairies is forbidden. Immediately, the girls discover the...Read more
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Danny DeVito's adaptation of the Roald Dahl book for children is mostly just fine, helped
along quite a bit by the charming performance of Mara Wilson (Mrs. Doubtfire) as
young Matilda, a brilliant girl neglected by her stupid, self-involved parents...Read more
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In the opening five minutes of this documentary two memorable quotes immediately grab your
attention. The first comes from an enthusiastic commentator who rhetorically asks,
"Whose game is it? Michael Jordan's game." This may have been said in a...Read more
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Some people may sneer at this 1965 musical, but the truth is the film has earned its
status as a perennially watchable romantic-drama, largely on the strength of a fun story
and chemistry between stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Veteran...Read more
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This feature production from Nickelodeon is based on a popular kids' book from the 1960s
by Louise Fitzhugh, and stars Michelle Trachtenberg as an 11-year-old wannabe journalist
who writes all her observations about friends in a diary. When the book...Read more
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John G. Avildsen not only directed Rocky, he tried remaking it over the years in a
dozen different ways. One of them was this popular 1984 drama about a new kid (Ralph
Macchio) in town targeted by karate-wielding bullies until he gets a new mentor:...Read more
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Screenwriter William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride earned its own loyal
audience on the strength of its narrative voice and its gently satirical, hyperbolic spin
on swashbuckled adventure that seemed almost purely literary; for all its...Read more
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