The Last Mimzy 2007

The Last Mimzy 2007

The Last Mimzy 2007
PG | 1h 30min | Drama, Family, Sci-Fi | 23 March 2007 (USA)

Storyline:

The siblings Noah and Emma travel with their mother Jo from Seattle to the family cottage in Whidbey Island to spend a couple of days while their workaholic father David Wilder is working. They find a box of toys from the future in the water and bring it home, and Emma finds a stuffed rabbit called Mimzy, and stones and a weird object, but they hide their findings from their parents. Mimzy talks telepathically to Emma and the siblings develop special abilities, increasing their intelligences to the level of genius. Their father becomes very proud when Noah presents a magnificent design in the fair of science and technology, and his teacher Larry White and his mystic wife Naomi Schwartz become interested in the boy when he draws a mandala. When Noah accidentally assembles the objects and activates a powerful generator creating a blackout in the state, the FBI arrests the family trying to disclose the mystery. But Emma unravels the importance to send Mimzy back to the future.

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Waiting for the Clouds 2003

Waiting for the Clouds 2003

Waiting for the Clouds 2003

Waiting for the Clouds 2003
Bulutlari beklerken (original title)
1h 30min | Drama | 7 January 2005 (Turkey)

Storyline:

Ayse/Eleni who is a member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her early ages. However, the events that happen cause her to face her own past.

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Behind the Blue Door 2016

Behind the Blue Door 2016

Behind the Blue Door 2016

Behind the Blue Door 2016
Za niebieskimi drzwiami (original title)
1h 39min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 4 November 2016 (Poland)

Storyline:

Behind the blue door – an adventure beyond your wildest dreams. No other bestselling Polish childrens’ book been adapted for the screen quite like Behind the Blue Door, a favourite among kids and teachers alike. The adaptation, directed by Mariusz Paleja, takes viewers on an extraordinary journey. It has everything children love: intriguing heroes, mysterious monsters and new friends – colourful, magical birds. It is the world you see when you close your eyes before falling asleep. The magical doors lead to a world of dreams so real you could live in it, so exciting you yearn to discover it and so mysterious it even frightens you. Behind the Blue Door is the first Polish film to be made with such momentum and epic special effects and it is sure to appeal to the people of all ages. One of the main themes of the film is the great power of parental love.

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Takapihan sankarit 1992

Takapihan sankarit 1992

Takapihan sankarit 1992

Takapihan sankarit 1992
57min | Family | 12 December 1992 (Finland)

Plot:

Osmo Peltonen (People’s News 11.12.1992) compared the backyard heroes at the same time-dosed premiere at the Parrot man : “Kaarlo Merimaan books that drew backyard heroes .. Manages to cleanly push through a date with a children’s perspective on time, the picture and the child actors, this may possibly sense the effect on the Danish and Swedish children’s films backyard the weakness of heroes is that there is not enough tendency in the episodic story, especially if it is compared to a parrotsman who often looks quite “right” in the film. ”

“The tutor’s grip is not enough to keep a variety of episodes in size,” Katriina Kauppila also said. (Lapsen Maailma 2/1993). “There is a chance to find a movie but, for example, a hysterical but subdued comedy is just a promise, but the heroes of the backyard are a paradise for the first time in a nice way down the road, but it is not trying to crawl from the sky but just to reach it.”

“Pohjola seeks out a narrative nostalgic genius and a humorous joke,” wrote Tarmo Poussu (Ilta-Sanomat on December 11, 1992). “The company is still a sham and the cause is not merely a manuscript in the unprecedented episodic nature, but Pohjola can not get its kind of childlike character out of the wild actor performances.

Antti Lindqvist (see 6/1993) and Petri Kemppinen (Helsingin Sanomat 12.12.1992) considered Antti Rimminen as the most pioneering actor for children. “The adult teacher (Mikko Reitala) is the most elaborate,” continued Kemppinen. “He’s a naughty nil, a seemingly living adult memory of childhood.” (google translated)

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The Secret Garden 1993

The Secret Garden 1993

The Secret Garden 1993

The Secret Garden 1993
G | 1h 41min | Drama, Family, Fantasy | 13 August 1993 (USA)

Storyline:

Living in India, Mary Lennox, a young, privileged girl, is left orphaned when her parents are killed in an earthquake. She is sent back to England where she goes to live on her uncle’s estate. It is a fairly isolated existence and she has to find things to keep herself occupied. She finds a sickly young boy…and a secret garden.

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Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog 1995

Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog 1995

Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog 1995

Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog 1995
PG | 1h 21min | Adventure, Family | 13 January 1995 (USA)

Storyline:

Teenage Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while traveling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus’ father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus’s parents relentlessly badger rescue teams. Angus, schooled by his father in wilderness survival skills, and assisted by the intelligent Yellow Dog, tries to attract rescuers.

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Disconnected 2017

Disconnected 2017

Disconnected 2017
1h 36min | Drama | 1 March 2017 (USA)

Storyline:

Frustrated by the status quo, fifteen-year-old Sean Crawford takes his dad’s Tesla for a joy ride to see his crush – except he doesn’t have a license and zero clue that the girl waiting for him is going to change his life forever in the span of a weekend.

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Paper Angels 2014

Paper Angels 2014

Paper Angels 2014
1h 30min | Drama | TV Movie 16 November 2014

Storyline:

Darryl Brandt fails as family father due to alcohol abuse rendering him somewhat mean and utterly lazy. Without proper plan or consulting the kids, wife Lynn sneaks out for good on Christmas. She takes a measly waitress job, model son must rebuild his life and still tries to be a substitute father for spoiled little sister Sara. Thomas get picked beyond newbie-hazing at in high-school when the cool kids find out his family is dead-poor, jocks top-dog Vic West even makes it a personal vendetta when AAs-‘nerd’ Thomas tries out for ‘his’ basketball team and is at least as good at that too. Kevin Morrell, who wrestles with a business in trouble and a problem twins pregnancy, seeks solace by returning to pastor and team coach Graham Cody’s big brother program and becomes Thomas’s mentor. At Christmas, things get complicated around the Salvation Army’s Paper Angesl program to anonymously fulfill poor kids’ wishes..

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