The Ultimate Gift (2006) Rated: G Director: Michael O. Sajbel Run Time: 114 minutes Age Recommendations: All ages Main Characters: Jason, Emily, Mom, Mr. Hamilton Plot: A rich man dies and all his family care about is how much they get from his estate. All are left to carry on the way they are with the Board of Trustees handling the inheritance, except for one grandson, Jason. He was [...]
Shrek (2001) Director: Andrew Adamson Vicky Jenson Rated: PG Run Time: 90 Minutes Age Recommendations: 8 and up Main Characters: Shrek, Donkey, Fiona, and Lord Farquaad Plot: When Shrek discovers that his swamp has been taken over by fairy-tale creatures, he travels to Dulac to reclaim his home. Lord Farquaad promises if he rescues Princess Fiona from the dragon’s keep, he can have his swamp back. Along with Donkey, [...]
Ratatouille (2007) Director: Brad Bird Rated: G Run Time: 111 minutes Age Recommendations: Good movie for adults with children and kids (4-13) Main Characters: Remy (the rat), Linguini Plot: A rat who is trying to find out who he is, meets a young man who is trying to find out who he is. They team up to become the greatest chef in Paris and chaos ensues. Theme: Your family [...]
Courageous DVD Review Itsagoodday.org highlights good films for families and this is a good one. Be sure to check this film out on DVD. You can either rent it or buy it below. Synopsis Four men, one calling: To serve and protect. As law enforcement officers, they are confident and focused, standing up to the worst the streets can offer. Yet at the end of the day, they face a [...]
Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Rated: PG Director: Woody Allen Run Time: 89 minutes Age recommendations: 16 and up Main Characters: Cecelia, Tom Baxter, Husband Monk, Gill Shepherd, Emma Plot: Cecelia lives her life through the movies because she is unhappily married to a husband who beats her. After viewing the film “Purple Rose of Cairo” several times, an actor steps out of the film and sweeps her off [...]
No Reservations (2007) Director: Scott Hicks Run Time: 104 minutes Age Recommendations: 8 and up. Main Characters: Kate (famous chef), Zoe (Kate’s niece), Nick (second chef) Plot: Kate is a terrific chef at a Manhattan restaurant, sent to therapy by the restaurant owner because she is cold, unyielding, rule-bound, and a pain in the neck. Kate’s world is flipped over when her only sister dies and her ten-year-old niece, [...]
Night at the Museum (2006) Director: Shawn Levy Rated: PG Run Time: 108 minutes Age Recommendations: Everyone Main Characters: Larry Daley, Rebecca, Cecil, Gus, Reginald, and Nick Daley Plot: After disappointing his son, Nick, for the last time, Larry accepts a night watchman job at the Museum of Natural History. In his first nightshift, Larry realizes that everything at the museum comes to life at night. Larry [...]
National Treasure (2004) Director: John Turteltaub Rated: PG Run Time: 131 minutes Age Recommendations: 8 and up Main Characters: Ben Gates, Abigail Chase, Riley Poole, Ian Howe, and Patrick Gates Plot: Ben Gates comes from a family of treasure hunters. Now his grandfather believes that the forefathers’ buried a treasure somewhere in the country; and have placed clues everywhere, but unfortunately the clues are highly cryptic and scattered all [...]
Nanny McPhee (2006) Director: Kirk Jones Rated: PG Run Time: 97 minutes Age Recommendations: 5 and up Main Characters: Nanny McPhee, Brown children, Cedric Brown (father). Plot: The film revolves around seven motherless children who have frightened off seventeen nannies much to their father’s dismay. The children are unruly and impolite. Their father has his own stresses of desperately searching for a wife before his mean-spirited great aunt cuts [...]
Nancy Drew (2007) Director: Andrew Fleming Run Time: 99 minutes Age Recommendations: 8-14 years old Main Characters: Nancy Drew, Ned, Corky Plot: Nancy likes to sleuth and usually get into danger doing it. She and her father move to California and buy an old time actress’ home who had been mysteriously killed many years before. She decides to solve the case. She finds a daughter of the actress who [...]
