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Charlotte's Web is a live-action/computer-animated feature film, based on the popular book of the same name by E.B. White. It is directed by Gary Winick and produced by Paramount Pictures, Walden Media, The Kerner Entertainment Company, and Nickelodeon Movies. The screenplay is by Susannah Grant and Karey Kirkpatrick, based on White's book. It is the second film adaptation of White's book, preceded by a 1973 cel-animated version produced by Hanna-Barbera for Paramount Pictures. It was distributed in Switzerland, Spain, and Netherlands by Universal Pictures.
The film was at one time intended for a June 2006 release, but was pushed back to December 2006 to avoid competition with two other films from Nickelodeon Movies - Nacho Libre and Barnyard - as well as Over the Hedge and Cars among other films. It was released in Australia on December 7, 2006 and in the United States and Canada on December 15, 2006. The U.S. and Canadian release date matches that of 20th Century Fox's Eragon,...,
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Flushed Away is a computer animated British film directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell. It is a partnership between Aardman Animations and DreamWorks Animation, and is Aardman's first completely computer-animated feature as opposed to the usual stop-motion. The film stars the voice talents of Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy, Ian McKellen, Shane Richie and Jean Reno. The screenplay was written by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Christopher Lloyd, Joe Keenan, and William Davies. The film was released in movie theatres on November 3, 2006, and is distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film was rated PG by the MPAA for crude humor and some language. It was distributed in Switzerland, Spain, and Netherlands by Universal Pictures.
Roddy St. James is a decidedly upper-crust pet rat who makes his home in a posh Kensington flat. When a common sewer rat named Sid comes spewing out of the sink and decides he lives where he likes, Roddy schemes to get rid of Sid by luring him...,
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Leroy & Stitch is an animated film created by Walt Disney Television Animation. It is a spin-off of the 2002 animated feature film Lilo & Stitch and the conclusion to the television series Lilo & Stitch: The Series and the franchise as well. The film debuted on the Disney Channel on June 23, 2006 and also aired on Toon Disney on June 26, 2006. It was released on DVD in the United States on June 27, 2006, a few days after the TV series finale.
Their mission to capture all 626 experiments and repurpose them on Earth has been completed, so Lilo and her family are honored as heroes by the Galactic Alliance. Jumba is given the key to his laboratory again, Pleakley is offered a post as chairman of Earth Studies at G.A.C.C. (Galactic Alliance Community College) and Stitch (experiment 626) is made a Captain of the Galactic Armada and commander of the BRB-9000 (BRB stands for "Big Red Battleship"). Lilo is made Ambassador to Earth and sole guardian of Stitch's "cousins". At first,...,
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Over the Hedge is a computer-animated film based on the United Media comic strip of the same name. Directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick and produced by Bonnie Arnold, it was released in the U.S. on May 19, 2006.Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures (due to Viacom's -- the parent of Paramount -- acquisition of its former parent company DreamWorks SKG), the film was rated PG by the MPAA for some rude humor and mild comic action. The movie was made in Glendale, California.RJ the Raccoon, after unsuccessfully trying to get a snack item from a vending machine, ventures into the cave of a hibernating bear named Vincent. While attempting to steal Vincent's cache of goods, RJ accidentally wakes Vincent, who after realizing what RJ is doing, attempts to scare him into giving his stuff back. While RJ tries to talk his way out of trouble, Vincent's cache rolls out of the cave, down to a street, and is destroyed by a passing truck. The furious Vincent...,
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Cow Belles is a Disney Channel Original Movie starring Alyson Michalka and Amanda Michalka, better known as sister duo Aly & AJ.
Alyson Michalka and Amanda Michalka star as Taylor and Courtney Callum, two spoiled rotten sisters whose father Reed Callum, (Jack Coleman) owns Callum Dairy. Taylor has just gotten her license, after almost failing it at the beginning of the movie. But then their life turns upside down. One day, when Taylor and Courtney return from a shopping trip, they find their kitchen has burned because of them leaving a burner on on the stove, causing the kitchen to catch fire. Shocked by their carelessness, Reed puts them to work at the dairy to show them responsibility about running a business. Their dad goes out of town, looking for a rare butterfly to add to his collection. This leaves the girls to look after the dairy.
When the girls start working at the dairy, they are at their worst nightmare. They mess up almost every step of the way, such as tripping and...,
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Curious George is a traditionally-animated film version of the children's stories by H.A. and Margret Rey. It was released in the United States on February 10, 2006. Will Ferrell voices Ted, The Man in The Yellow Hat. Matthew O'Callaghan directed (after replacing Jun Falkenstein). This project had been in development hell at Imagine Entertainment for a long time, dating back at least as long ago as 1992 (and possibly many years before this). The screenplay was written by Michael McCullers, Daniel Gerson, Rob Baird, Joe Stillman and Karey Kirkpatrick.
A clumsy, mischievous, and curious chimpanzee named George (voiced by Frank Welker) lives in the jungles of Africa. His behavior amuses the other young jungle animals, but it angers their parents. So George is left sad and alone.
Meanwhile, at the Bloomsberry Museum, Ted (the man in the yellow hat), (Will Ferrell) a museum employee, teaches the kids of Maggie's (Drew Barrymore) class. The kids are bored, but Ted doesn't realize this....,
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Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie is a 2006 direct-to-video computer animated sequel to the 1971 Rankin-Bass TV movie, Here Comes Peter Cottontail. It was released by Classic Media. It made its television premiere on April 14, 2006 (on Cartoon Network). It includes several songs, into a pop-rock version of the original theme song by Kai.Peter Cottontail has married his sweetheart, Donna, and is still the Chief Easter Bunny of April Valley. The two have had a son, Junior, who annoys his father by making impractical and outlandish inventions instead of doing his duty as the nougat supervisor at the candy factory. After a particularly massive disaster that results in the nougat catching on fire, Peter, in an attempt to teach Junior about responsibility, assigns his son to clean the Clock of Spring.Meanwhile, January Q. Irontail, last seen having been demoted to the janitor of April Valley, approaches Jackie Frost, the queen of winter, with a proposal. Jackie wants it to be winter...,
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Air Buddies is the sixth film in the Air Bud series and the first in the spinoff series Air Buddies, which follows the life of a lonely teenager and his dog who has the uncanny ability to play every sport. The film was released on December 12, 2006. The film was rated PG by the MPAA for some mild rude humor.Noah Framm's golden retrievers Buddy and Molly are dognapped, so their five puppies (Rosebud, Bud-dha, Budderball, Mudbud, and B-Dawg; also known as the Air Buddies) must rescue them.The Region 1 DVD contains a number of extra features....,
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The Adventures of Brer Rabbit, released in 2006, is a direct-to-video film inspired by the Uncle Remus stories. It should be noted that the character's actual name is Br'er Rabbit, but this film's title is simplified as "Brer."
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The Barbie Diaries is a 2006 film featuring popular Mattel character Barbie. The Barbie of "Barbie Diaries" is somewhat different from her usual portrayal. She has strengths: working hard in school, singing, playing guitar, and a good sense of right and wrong. However, she also has weaknesses: shyness, and a lack of belief in herself. This Barbie also encounters the problems that real-life teens encounter: making new friends, dating, gossip, and getting involved in school. ...,
Chicken Little (2005) is a computer-generated imagery (CGI) animated film and the 45th animated feature made and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on November 4, 2005. It was written by Mark Dindal and Mark Kennedy with the screenplay by Steve Bencich, Ron J. Friedman, and Ron Anderson and directed by Mark Dindal. The film was animated in-house at WDFA's main headquarters in Burbank, California.
This was Disney's first all-CGI picture, and the start of their ceasing production of traditionally-animated films (Pixar's films were distributed but not produced by Disney, and Dinosaur was a combination of live-action and computer animation). However, the company has since announced that they will return to traditional animation with The Princess and the Frog in 2009.
The film is loosely based on the fable Chicken Little, otherwise known as The Sky is Falling. In the small suburban town of Oakey Oaks, Chicken Little...,
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Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch is a direct-to-video animated film produced by DisneyToon Studios. The film is an interquel, being the direct sequel to the 2002 Disney feature film Lilo & Stitch and taking place before the events of Stitch! The Movie and subsequent additions to the franchise. Although originally slated for a theatrical release (like Return to Neverland), it was released to DVD and VHS on August 30, 2005. Like the original film, Lilo & Stitch 2 features the music of Elvis Presley and the original film's animation style. Despite always being labeled with the subtitle, "Stitch has a Glitch," this does not actually appear in the title card. However, a modified title card featuring it did show up in the preview for the film's Disney Channel airing.
Lilo and her classmates are preparing for a hula competition where the winner gets to perform at the local May Day festival. Each student is required to create an original dance. While preparing for the...,
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Life is Ruff is a 2005 Disney Channel Original Movie.
This story is about a 13 year old boy named Calvin Wheeler (Kyle Massey).
He is a popular boy at school who collects comic books in his spare time. Calvin has a best friend named Raymond Figg (Mitchel Musso), who prefers to be called Figg. He saved Figg's life in the second grade when Figg had an asthma attack, and Figg, very devoted, manages his schedule and occasionally does his homework.
Gotham Man is the name of Calvin's favorite comic. His collection is complete, except for one issue that's ever-so-rare, the first one, it's worth $3,000 . When a show-dog runs after Calvin while skateboarding, he finds out that when one wins a dog show, they earn major cash. The cash prize is the amount of money Calvin needs to buy the first issue of Gotham Man.
Calvin goes to a dog rescue shelter and adopts a dog. Emily Watson (Kay Panabaker) believes that this had to be another one of the crazy schemes or plans that Calvin has in mind. So...,
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Zenon: Z3 is the third installment of the Disney Channel's "Zenon" TV movie series, following Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century and Zenon: The Zequel.Also known as Zenon the Zecond Zequel, high achiever Zenon Kar is competing to win the Galactic Teen Supreme contest and celebrate at the Moonstock Festival in the year 2054.When Zenon wants to beat handsome competitor Bronley Hale, she runs headlong into Moon preservation activist Sage Borealis. Sage is desperate to keep the Moon from being colonized and exploited and wants Zenon's help. Meanwhile Commander Plank and Aunt Judy's precocious new foster daughter, Dasha is star struck by Zenon and finds it difficult not stay put and out of trouble. During the last competition to win the Galactic Teen Supreme contest a new villain appears who threatens to destroy the Lunar Base. It's up to Zenon to save them and the others from this new deity. The section could be improved by integrating relevant items into the main text and removing ...,
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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is a 2004 American comedy movie. It is directed by Sara Sugarman and written by Gail Parent based on the book by Dyan Sheldon.
Tagline:So much drama, so little time.15-year-old Mary (Lola) Steppe (Lindsay Lohan), desperate for attention, moves with her family from New York City to the suburbs of Dellwood, New Jersey, to her disapproval. Her self-centered attitude then gets a reality check as she begins to realize she must compete against the current popular girl in school, Carla Santini (Megan Fox). Lola befriends an unpopular girl named Ella Gerard as they both share a love for the fictional band Sidarthur (spelling as in script, however sometimes interpreted as Sidartha or Sid Arthur - possibly a play on Sid Vicious and Sidhartha), whose lead singer, Stu Wolf (Adam Garcia), Lola has a crush on, and Ella has a crush on Steve, the guitarist.
Lola tries out for the school play, a modern version of Pygmalion named "Eliza Rocks" because the teacher...,
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Stitch! The Movie is a direct-to-video animated spinoff of Lilo & Stitch, released on August 26, 2003. It is often considered more of a pilot for the spinoff series Lilo & Stitch: The Series rather than a sequel to the original film. The story is an introduction to Dr. Jumba Jookiba's 625 experiments, which he created with the financing of Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel.The film starts out with ex-Captain Gantu on his new spaceship (his original got destroyed in the first film), being hired by Hämsterviel to retrieve the experiments. Meanwhile, on Earth, Stitch is still not fitting in. Lilo tries to encourage him by saying he's one-of-a-kind, comparing him to Frankenstein. Naturally, that just makes him feel worse. Suddenly, a crash is heard from below. Running downstairs, the pair encounters Gantu, breaking into their home. In the ensuing chaoes, Gantu finds and takes a blue ball with the number "625" on it before abducting Jumba for interrogation. Lilo and Stitch manage take...,
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Finding Nemo is an Academy Award-winning computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. It was released in the United States/Canada on May 30, 2003, in Australia on August 27, 2003 and in the UK on 10 October, 2003. The movie is the fifth Disney/Pixar feature film and the first to be released during the summer season.
The movie was released on a 2-disc DVD on November 4, 2003 in the United States and Canada, in Australia on January 16, 2004, and the UK on February 27, 2004. It went on to become the best selling DVD of all time, with 28 million copies sold.Time magazine listed it #10 as one of the top best 100 films ever made.After Marlin (Albert Brooks) the clownfish loses his wife, Coral (Elizabeth Perkins), and all but one of his unborn children to a marauding barracuda, he promises that he will never let anything happen to the one remaining egg which he names Nemo.
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When Zachary Beaver Came to Town is a 2003 children's movie starring Jonathan Lipnicki, directed by John Schultz.
This movie, based on the book by the same name, follows the events of one summer in a small Texas town. A boy named Toby and his best friend Cal meet an extremely overweight, adolescent sideshow freak named Zachary Beaver. They get to know him, and meanwhile, both younger boys deal with the absence of Cal's brother, Wayne, who has joined the army. Also, Toby's mother runs off to Nashville in the hopes of becoming a country singer.
This movie didn't get wide release so there weren't many reviews of it. What critical response it got was mixed.
The movie was mainly filmed in the Austin Metro area.
Soundtrack is called "When Zachary Beaver came to town."
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Air Bud: Spikes Back is the fifth film in the Air Bud series, and its title is a play on Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back.
Andrea Framm discovers that her dog, Buddy(air bud) has an uncanny ability to play the sport of volleyball(Andrea's not very good at volleyball}. Buddy excels at the sport and leads Andrea's team to the championship. However, just before the championship game, Buddy must solve several crimes that appear to have been committed by him. It is up to Andrea; with a little help from her brother, Noah; to help clear Buddy's name and lead their team to the championship!(which they win of course!}
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The Scream Team is a Disney Channel Original Movie.
Two children move into a town where their grandfather has just died. They later discover that a society of ghosts are searching for their grandfathers lost soul. The children decide to find the soul but an evil ghost has stolen it and the children join forces with the Soul Patrol, a group of dead people who search for ghost, to find the soul and destroy the evil ghost.
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Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch is the fourth film in the Air Bud series.Josh Framm has gone off for his first year at college and he has left his golden retriever, Buddy, behind with his sister, Andrea Framm. Andrea becomes frustrated when her parents only pay attention to their new baby. She vents her frustration by joining the Junior High baseball team. Although she is not good at baseball by any means, Buddy is! However, trouble occurs right before the championship game when two scientists who live in a mobile home/laboratory kidnap Buddy with hopes of cloning animals who can play sports....,
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Cadet Kelly is a Disney Channel Original Movie starring Hilary Duff and Christy Carlson Romano.
The plot of the movie concerns Kelly, a hyperactive and free-spirited middle school girl whose mother gets married to Major General Joe "Sir" Maxwell. When her new stepfather gets a job as the Commandant of a military school, Kelly enrolls in the military school because it is the only school around the area they move to. Kelly at first has trouble fitting in and obeying the orders of the officers above her especially Capt. Stone who likes a fellow student named Brad. This reaches the point of being taken to court and being sentenced to shine the uniforms of the drill team (a team she looked down upon for considering their routines robotic). However, she gradually improves and even helps the school win second place at the regional drill competition.
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Return to Never Land (also known as Peter Pan: Return to Never Land) is a 2002 animated feature produced by the DisneyToons studio in Sydney, Australia and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. It was originally produced as a direct-to-video sequel to Walt Disney's 1953 film Peter Pan, but was released theatrically first. It included digitally animated sequences and an all-new voice cast. Return to Never Land will be released on a Special Edition DVD some time in 2008.
The film begins in difficult times, centered around the year 1940 during Blitzkrieg by Germany, over London, England, also called the Battle of Britain. Former playmate Wendy Darling has grown up, married, and had two children of her own: a daughter, Jane, and a son, Danny. When her husband, Edward, leaves to fight in World War II, Wendy is left alone to raise her children through such dangerous events as the threat of bombing. She tries to tell them stories of Peter Pan to make them feel...,
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Big Fat Liar is a 2002 comedy directed by Shawn Levy and starring Frankie Muniz, Paul Giamatti and Amanda BynesJason Shephard (Frankie Muniz), a fourteen-year-old boy residing in the fictional town of Greenbury, Michigan, was known as a stealthy but not well-organized liar by his friends and family. His English teacher, Ms. Caldwell (Sandra Oh), assigns her class a creative writing essay; having not done it, Jason lies by telling a tale that his father had choked on a Swedish meatball, with the result that Jason was in the hospital's ER during night and therefore unable to complete the assignment. When asked for his father's office telephone number, Jason gives the number of his own cell phone instead. Jason has classmate and best friend Kaylee (Amanda Bynes) act as Mr. Shepherd's receptionist, while he, in a raspy voice, reiterates the Swedish meatball tale. Ms. Caldwell apologizes and tells Jason to take his time with the assignment. The lie comes back to haunt him when his parents...,
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My Life as McDull (Chinese: 麥兜故事) is a Chinese animated feature film from Hong Kong released in 2001. The film surrounds the life of McDull, a hugely popular cartoon pig character created by Alice Mak and Brian Tse which has appeared on comics ever since the 1990s. In 2004, the sequel to this film, McDull, Prince de la Bun, was released.The FIPRESCI prize at the 26th Hong Kong International Film Festival (2002)Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Annecy, France (2003)McDull is not the brightest kid on the block, but he continually tries to do his best and please his mother. Although it seems that he may not be destined for great things in life as his mother wishes, McDull never gives up.The story focuses on several tales about McDull and his childhood. This is told as a narrative reflection of a now adult McDull. These tales muddle up in imaginative uses of Cantonese and heaps of local Hong Kong culture. From tales about a turkey dinner to dreams of following...,
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The Spy Kids trilogy is a trilogy of family/action/adventure films written, produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and beginning in 2001 and ending in 2003. They were about the children of a married spy couple who become involved in their parents' espionage. The rest of their family are also spies as well, including their uncle Machete (who supplies the OSS with gadgets) and grandparents.
Even though the Spy Kids films are espionage-based, MSN Movies ranks the first film as the ninth best superhero movie to date, behind X-Men, Batman, Spider-Man, The Incredibles, Superman the Movie, Darkman, The Super Inframan, and Hellboy.[1] The first film was released on March 30, 2001. McDonalds' released Spy Kids toys in Happy Meals at the time the first movie was released.
About ten years before the films are set, there was a period of enormous political turmoil. Fearless agents were recruited for espionage, fearing only enemy spies. The way Gregorio Cortez and Ingrid Avellan met is a...,
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Air Bud: World Pup is the third film in the Air Bud series.
Teenager Josh Framm's mother, Jackie, has just married her veterinarian boyfriend, Patrick Sullivan. Josh and his best friend, Tom Stewart, have just made their school's soccer team when their coach reveals that their team will become co-ed. Josh meets Emma, an attractive girl who just moved with her family from England; and not only will she be playing on his soccer team, but she also has a golden retriever named Molly. Molly quickly has puppies with Josh's basketball and football-playing dog, Buddy. Next, it is discovered that Buddy also has the uncanny ability to play soccer. Before the blink of an eye, Buddy has a uniform and is on the roster, leading Josh's soccer team to the state championship. However, trouble occurs when Buddy's newborn puppies are kidnapped by two people who wants to sell them for cash. Josh, Emma, and Andrea look for them and find them eventually. When the crooks are finally caught one of...,
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Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II (aka The Rugrats Movie 2: Rugrats in Paris and Rugrats in Paris: The Movie) is the sequel to the 1998 film The Rugrats Movie and followed by the 2003 film Rugrats Go Wild that follows the continuing adventures of the Rugrats. The movie is the first Rugrats appearance of Kimi, Kira and Fifi, the poodle. This film was produced by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies, and originally released to movie theatres by November 17, 2000. It aired as the fourth summer movie on Nickelodeon on June 30, 2006.
This movie uses Chuckie as the main character and hero as he tries to find a new mother.
Tommy, his friends, and family travel to Paris, France, where his dad Stu has been summoned to fix the mechanical centerpiece of the EuroReptarLand theme park, a huge Reptar robot (from the Rugrats TV movie, Acorn Nuts and Diapie Butts, aired slightly before the film's release). Meanwhile, the park's director Coco LaBouche (voiced by Susan Sarandon), is looking...,
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Thomas and the Magic Railroad is a 2000 film based on the well-known TV series and its American spinoff. This film was produced and distributed by Destination Films, and originally released to movie theatres by 2000.
There is trouble on the Island of Sodor. An evil diesel locomotive by the name of Diesel 10 has arrived, with the intention of destroying the steam locomotives that live on the railway. Specifically, he has a plan to locate a magical lost engine and destroy her in order to remove the magic from the Island. Sir Topham Hatt, normally in charge of the railways on Sodor, is on holiday and has left Mr. Conductor in charge.
Mr. Conductor has problems of his own. The mysterious gold dust that allows him to magically transport from place to place is running out, and without it there will be no way for anyone to travel to Sodor. The lost engine is able to travel between Sodor and Muffle Mountain via the Magic Railroad, but nobody knows where she is.
An old man named Burnett...,
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Up, Up and Away is a Disney Channel Original Movie released for television in 2000. This movie has been credited by some fans as a black Sky High after that film was released.The movie tells the story of Scott Marshall, the son of two great superheroes, Bronze Eagle and Warrior Woman. All of his family members are gifted with superpowers, and he desperately wants powers of his own. To his surprise, however, he doesn't develop any by his 14th birthday - the latest age at which this is possible. To comfort his parents, who would be devastated to find out that their son was ordinary, Scott pretends to have superstrength and the ability to fly.Meanwhile, a group of activists known as the "Earth Protectors" has been giving out CDs about the environment to Scott's classmates. The CDs, however, have a nefarious purpose - brainwashing children. Scott must save the day and rescue the kids - without superpowers....,
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Snow Day (2000) is an American comedy film by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies. The film focuses on a group of elementary students in Syracuse, New York, (led by Natalie Brandston) who try to keep their school snowed-in and closed by stopping a snow plow driver from plowing the streets. Meanwhile, her older brother Hal tries to win the heart of high school sweetheart Claire Bonner. Also, their dad (Tom Brandston) is a TV meteorologist who must face off against a rival meteorologist in order to have the right of continuing their weather career. It was filmed in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was originally planned to be a movie based on the television series The Adventures of Pete & Pete, but Paramount was not interested in making a film based on the series. The single "Another Dumb Blonde" was released from the soundtrack.
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Life-Size is a 2000 made-for-TV film directed by Mark Rosman and originally premiered on ABC. It was released to DVD in the same year. The film is a family comic fantasy starring Lindsay Lohan and Tyra Banks in a tale of a young girl's Eve Doll (somewhat like Barbie) that is transformed into a living Perfect Woman.
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Help! I'm a Fish (Danish: ''Hjælp, jeg er en fisk'') (a.k.a. A Fish Tale) is a Danish animated feature film originally released in late 2000, and produced by Denmark's well-renowned A. Film studios. It was directed by Stefan Fjeldmark and Michael Hegner.
The movie follows three children--a skateboarding mischief-maker named Fly; his sweet sister, Stella; and a young genetics scientist, Chuck--who discover an eccentric professor's secret formula that, once drunk out of, can turn anyone into a fish. The three, now stuck in the sea, must find its reverse within 48 hours, or else they forever stay that way themselves.
An English-language version of the film, with Alan Rickman (Joe the Fish) and Terry Jones (the Professor) as voices, premiered at the beginning of April 2005 on the Latin American version of the Cartoon Network. It was available earlier in the UK.
Danish teen-pop girl-group, Little Trees performed the title track, "Help! I'm a Fish (I'm A Little Yellow Fish)", which was...,
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Air Bud: Golden Receiver is the first of many sequels to the 1997 film Air Bud.
Teenager Josh Framm becomes angry when his mother, Jackie, begins dating Patrick Sullivan, the town's new veterinarian. It all starts when Sullivan innocently tosses Josh's basketball-savvy dog, Buddy, a football one day, and he discovers that Buddy also has an uncanny ability to play the sport of football. Soon enough, Buddy begins playing on Josh's Junior High football team. Meanwhile, two Russian dogkidnappers kidnap Buddy in hopes of having him perform in the Russian circus. It is up to Patrick Sullivan to help Josh get his dog back; and in doing so, they bond and Josh becomes comfortable with Sullivan's intimate relationship with his mother.
The film was a modest hit, and although it did not earn quite as much money as the original; it still made a borderline impressive $10 million.
-Six dogs were used to play Buddy in the making of this film. [1]-The family at the NFL game at the end shows the...,
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Belle's Magical World is a 1998 direct-to-video Disney midquel film and the third installment in the Beauty and the Beast trilogy. It was originally released on February 17, 1998, and features the voices of Paige O'Hara as Belle, Robby Benson as The Beast, Jerry Orbach as Lumiere, David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth, and Anne Rogers, who replaced Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Potts. The film features two songs performed by Belle, Listen With Our Hearts and A Little Thought.
Due to its rather low quality of animation, it is believed that Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World is a compilation of four surviving episodes of Disney's planned but failed Beauty and the Beast TV series, which would have been about Belle's adventures in the Beast's castle.
When first released in 1998, this film was title Belle's Magical World and consisted of three connected segments called The Perfect Word, Fifi's Folly and The Broken Wing. For 2003 Special Edition, released on February 25, the title was changed...,
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Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure is a 1999 direct-to-video family film starring Joseph Bologna, Maureen McCormick, Harvey Korman, and David Lander. The voice of the costumed Baby Huey character was performed by Stephen Furst, who also directed the film. It was originally released by Sony Pictures to VHS on March 2, 1999, and was later released to DVD on February 15, 2005. Uniquely for a direct-to-video film, it features a primarily all-star cast, and it also serves as the latest production to feature the character Baby Huey. ...,
Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1997 44-minute musical adaptation of Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It was made by Hallmark Entertainment.Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at the Internet Movie Database...,
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Elmo Saves Christmas is a children's home video that was released in 1996. In the story, Elmo learns that Christmas cannot occur every day.
Throughout the story, Elmo and the other characters also indirectly learn the value of a healthy disdain for the media. In this film, all of the characters in Sesame Street begin their daily celebration of Christmas solely at the word of the news media, led by Kermit the Frog who announce the new daily celebration of Christmas.
Elmo's wish of a daily Christmas leads to a fascinating dystopian future wherein sickness and the ravages of a complete collapse of capitalism due to constant vacation from work have reduced the people to miserable shells of their former selves. This is a direct result of their dependence on the media: were it not for their trust in the media and its infallibility they could simply have stopped celebrating Christmas any moment they wished.
It is Christmastime on Sesame Street. Snuffy, Big Bird's best friend, departs for ...,
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The Wind in the Willows, released on video in the U.S. as Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, is a 1996 adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic novel The Wind in the Willows (which shows the ever changing world of the British countryside through the eyes of animals). It also notably starred all of the surviving Monty Python members except Terry Gilliam.Mole's underground home is knocked in when the field is bulldozed by Weasels; the field is owned by Mr. Toad, who has sold it to raise money to finance his latest hobby: motor-cars. Mole flees to the river and meets Rat, who is getting ready to embark on a picnic. Seeing Mole's distress, Rat decides to take Mole to see Mr. Toad. Yet Toad, completely engrossed with motor cars, is not responsive to their appeals, but instead falls further into the lures of the Weasels. There are four main weasel characters in the film. Their leader is the villainous Chief Weasel, who is always accompanied by three main henchman- Clarence and Geoffrey, who couldn't get...,
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is a 1995 television film based on E.L. Konigsburg's novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. The story is about a girl and her brother who run away from home to live in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and discover what they think is a lost treasure. Lauren Bacall stars in the title role. The book was previously adapted into a 1973 feature film starring Ingrid Bergman, later released on home video as The Hideaways. ...,
Camp Nowhere is a 1994 film directed by Jonathan Prince, written by Andrew Kurtzman and Eliot Wald, and starring Jonathan Jackson, Christopher Lloyd, Melody Kay, Andrew Keegan, and Marne Patterson. The film also features Jessica Alba in one of her first film roles.
Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realizes that they are all facing the same sentence: a boring summer camp. Together with his friends, he hatches a plan to trick all the parents into sending them to a camp of his own design, which would actually be a parent-free paradise. Blackmailing former drama teacher Dennis Van Welker into helping, they must convince the parents that the camp is genuine, and that they aren't allowed to visit.
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The Little Rascals is a feature length film produced by Amblin Entertainment and released by Universal Pictures. It's theatrical release was August 5, 1994. The film is based upon the classic short film series Our Gang, and featured re-interpretations of several classic Our Gang shorts. The Little Rascals was a moderate success for Universal, a sequel and a television series were in the works for some time after the film's release, but nothing came to pass.
Spanky (Travis Tedford) is the president of the underground "He-Man Womun Haters Club" with many school-aged boys from around the neighborhood as members. His best friend, Alfalfa (Bug Hall), is also a member, and is chosen as the driver for the club's prize-winning go-kart, "The Blur", in the annual go-kart derby. However, when the announcement is made, Alfalfa is no where to be found. The boys then run off to find Alfalfa with Darla (Brittany Ashton Holmes), the subject to which the club is so-named. The club-members try their...,
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The Adventures of Huck Finn is a 1993 Disney film starring Elijah Wood and Courtney B. Vance; it is based on Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The film follows a boy named Huckleberry Finn and an escaped slave named Jim, who travel the Mississippi River together and overcome various obstacles along the way. The movie received a "PG" rating from the MPAA for some mild violence and language.Tagline: For anyone who has ever dreamed of running away from it all.In the city of St. Petersburg, a young, mischievous boy named Huckleberry Finn (Elijah Wood) discovers his abusive father Pap is come back in town after being away for more than a year. Up until that time he had been living under guardianship of the Widow Douglas (Dana Ivey) and her sister, Miss Watson (Mary Louise Wilson). Huck goes to his superstitious best friend, Jim (Courtney B. Vance), Miss Watson’s slave, for advice who tells him he doesn’t know what Pap plans to do but to stay clear from his current foster...,
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Ernest Scared Stupid is a 1991 Touchstone Pictures film directed by John R. Cherry III and starring Jim Varney. It is the fifth film to feature the character Ernest P. Worrell. In the movie, Ernest accidentally unleashes an army of trolls upon a small town on Halloween. The film received a PG rating from the MPAA. This was shot on location in Nashville,Tennessee.
Trantor - a troll who turns children into wooden dolls to feast upon their energy - is captured by the 19th century townsfolk of Briarville and sealed under a giant oak tree. One of the village elders, an ancestor of Ernest, establishes the seal under the condition that Trantor can only be released on the night before Halloween and by the hands of a Worrell. Fast-forwarding to the present day, Ernest and a few of his middle school friends build a treehouse on the exact branches that grow above the dormant creature. Ernest inadvertently releases the troll, and Trantor begins transforming local children into the small wooden...,
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Home Alone is a 1990 comedy film written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. It stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to France for a Christmas vacation. While initially relishing his time alone, he is later threatened with two house burglars, whom he outwits by rigging the house with booby traps.Most of the film was shot in the Chicago suburbs of Winnetka, Illinois and Wilmette, Illinois. Any other shots, such as those of Paris, are either stock footage or faked.The movie made Culkin a world-renowned actor. The film also features Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern as the "Wet Bandits," a bumbling pair of fugitive burglars named Harry and Marv who want to rob the McCallister home, believing it to be an easy target with the entire family seemingly absent. However, the duo run into numerous booby traps set throughout the house by the resourceful Kevin. Bruised and battered, they end up being re...,
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DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp is an animated film released by The Walt Disney Company in 1990; it is based on the animated series DuckTales.
In this film, Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey and Louie, Webby Vanderquack and Launchpad McQuack search for the treasure of Collie Baba and his forty thieves. They find a magic lamp and a genie that can grant them all kinds of wishes. Unfortunately, Merlock the Magician (voiced by Christopher Lloyd) wants that lamp, and he and his sidekick, Dijon the Thief, would do anything to get their hands on it.
It is interesting to note that a preceding episode of DuckTales, Master of the Djinni, featured a race to collect a magic lamp. However, the lamp and genie featured in the episode appear to have no connection to the one in this movie.
The film begins with two things: an eagle flying over a canyon, and Launchpad McQuack flying his biplane through the canyon in his usual method for flying, much to the fright of Scrooge McDuck and the...,
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Ernest Goes to Jail is a 1990 Disney film directed by John R. Cherry III and starring Jim Varney. It is the fourth film to feature the character Ernest P. Worrell. The film received a PG rating from the MPAA.
Ernest (Jim Varney) is spotted in a jury by a man on trial who notices that he is the spitting-image of death-row inmate Felix Nash, who is the prison "boss". He convinces the jury to tour the prison, where Ernest is kidnapped and forced to swap roles with Nash. He has various misadventures in prison (especially when trying to escape) until he is sent to the electric chair by the prison warden (Charles Napier). The electrocution fails, and he is transformed into a type of superhuman, with the ability to shoot lightning bolts from his hands. Ernest escapes from the prison and makes his way home, only to discover that his Pee-Wee Herman-like decor has been replaced by a slick lounge lizard style of decorating. He exclaims, "I've been vandalized - by Elvis!" Ernest then goes to the...,
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Ernest Saves Christmas is a 1988 Touchstone Pictures film directed by John R. Cherry III and starring Jim Varney. It is the third film to feature the character Ernest P. Worrell, and chronicles Ernest's attempt to find a replacement for an aging Santa Claus. The movie received an PG rating from the MPAA.Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) is working as a taxi driver in Orlando, Florida when he picks up a man at the airport (Douglas Seale) who claims to be Santa Claus. The man tells Ernest that he is on his way to inform a local personality named Joe Curruthers (Oliver Clark) that he has been chosen to be the new Santa Claus. Carruthers hosts a children's program in the Orlando-area similar to Mister Rogers Neighborhood with emphasis on manners and integrity with the catchphrase "They never get old. They always stay new. Those three little words, Please and Thank You.".While they are driving, a runaway teenage girl (Noelle Parker) joins Ernest and Santa in the cab. When they get to their...,
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Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam is a 1986 comedy starring Jim Varney. It was written and directed by John R. Cherry III. The film includes the Ernest P. Worrell character, but takes a slightly darker tone than that of his other films. It is still regarded as suitable for family viewing, and received a PG rating from the MPAA.
This information is included on the sleeve of the VHS release of the film without any indication that this synopsis in copyrighted:
"Born on the same day in the hospital, Lance Sterling and Dr. Otto couldn't be more different. While Lance turned out perfect in every way, Dr. Otto was born bad, with fifteen fingers, and warped like cheap lumber. Dr. Otto became Lance Sterling's arch-enemy--but he hated more than Lance's arch, he hated everything about him. Even in early childhood they were polar opposites. Now they've grown up and Dr. Otto is determined to take over the world. With the help of his newest invention, "The Gloom Beam," Dr. Otto plans...,
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Savannah Smiles is a 1982 comedy film starring Bridgette Andersen, Donovan Scott, and Mark Miller. The plot centers around a seven year-old girl named Savannah, whose father is running for the United States Senate. Savannah's parents pay no attention to her, so she decides to run away and hides in her Aunt's car.
When her aunt goes to the park, Savannah switches cars and ends up with two convicts, who just escaped the night before. The convicts take her in and soon discover there is a $100,000 reward for her safe return. But the robbers grow close to her, and ironically, Savannah finds the love and attention she always wanted.
Savannah Smiles was released on VHS in 1982, but had been out of print for several years, and was going for expensive prices online due to its somewhat large cult following with people who grew up in the 1980s.
On September 26, 2006 it was released on DVD, by Anchor Bay.
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