Our summer season of Family Classics features four more animated and live-action favourites from Disney, the Academy Award-nominated hit Whale Rider and a selection of toe-tapping musicals, thrilling adventures and inspirational fables that offers something for every member of the family.
Events in Family Classics
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Produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by former Disney animator Don Bluth, this warm-hearted and action-packed animated adventure takes place in a world on the verge of destruction, where five young dinosaurs set out to find the last habitable place on earth while avoiding the deadly jaws of a pursuing Tyrannosaurus.
CharlesBarton
An inventive teenager is accidentally cursed by an ancient ring and finds himself transformed into a woolly sheepdog.
KennyOrtega
Based on the true story of the 1899 Newsboys Strike in New York City, this splashy period musical stars a young Christian Bale as the rebellious ringleader of the “newsies,” who organizes a strike against tyrannical newspaper editor Joseph Pulitzer (Robert Duvall).
NikiCaro
A worldwide hit, this inspiring fable from New Zealand stars the Academy Award-nominated Keisha Castle-Hughes as a twelve-year-old Maori girl who must prove herself worthy of the right to lead her tribe.
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The pesky feline of the title is a sly Siamese named DC, who helps the FBI to nab two bank robbers.
BradBird
The first feature from Brad Bird, director of The Incredibles and Ratatouille, The Iron Giant is a stunning animated adventure set in small-town, Cold War-era America. While the rest of the country looks to the skies to catch a glimpse of the Russian satellite Sputnik, a gigantic robot (voiced by Vin Diesel) with an appetite for cars, railroad tracks and TV antennas crash-lands near the home of nine-year-old Hogarth.
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Based on the novel by Canadian author Sheila Burnford and filmed against the scenic backdrop of Northern Ontario, this Disney animal adventure follows the epic trek of three family pets—Luath the Labrador Retriever, Bodger the Bull Terrier and Tao the Siamese cat—as they travel 200 miles across the wilderness to be reunited with their owners.
RobertRodriguez
When their super-spy parents are captured by a diabolical villain, a pint-sized brother and sister duo set out to rescue them armed with an array of futuristic gadgets.
JohnHuston
A splashy, big-screen adaptation of the Broadway hit based on the famous 1930s comic strip, Annie takes place in the depths of the Great Depression, where the spunky orphan (Aileen Quinn) is taken into the home of rich industrialist Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney), and tries to win his heart while the cruel headmistress of the orphanage (Carol Burnett) hatches a plot to steal the grumpy tycoon’s cash.
John G.Avildsen
When teenager Daniel LaRusso moves with his mother from Newark to L.A. and befriends a pretty cheerleader, he becomes the target of her ex-boyfriend and his crew of thugs - until kindly Japanese handyman Mr. Miyagi agrees to train him in the martial arts.
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In 1930s Los Angeles, young flying ace Cliff Secord (Bill Campbell) accidentally comes into possession of a top-secret rocket pack, and soon finds himself and his gorgeous actress girlfriend Betty (Jennifer Connelly) on the run from gangsters, the FBI and even a Nazi spy posing as a Hollywood heartthrob (Timothy Dalton), all of them looking to get their hands on the amazing invention.
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Our summer season of Family Classics features four more animated and live-action favourites from Disney, the Academy Award-nominated hit Whale Rider and a selection of toe-tapping musicals, thrilling adventures and inspirational fables that offers something for every member of the family.