Events in Family Classics: Winter 2012

Babe: Pig in the City

George Miller

In this fantastical sequel to the 1995 family favourite, our porcine hero leaves the farm for the bright lights of the big city, where he finds room and board in a secret animal hotel, joins a troupe of performing chimps and leads a spectacular rescue mission (which pays homage to director George Miller’s own Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome in the hilarious final showdown!).

• Saturday January 21
  10:30 AM
  120121TBLB31030 (ER)

Stuart Little

Rob Minkoff

Cheerful talking mouse Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox) is adopted by the Littles (Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie) in this updating of the E.B. White children's classic, which also features the voice talents of Steve Zahn, Chazz Palminteri, Bruno Kirby and Jennifer Tilly.

• Saturday January 28
  10:30 AM
  120128TBLB31030 (ER)

The Black Stallion

Carroll Ballard

Shipwrecked off the North African coast in 1946, a boy gains the trust and affection of the only only other survivor, a wild Arabian stallion — which, after rescue, he trains into a racing champion. Francis Ford Coppola produced this lovely adaptation of the classic children's novel, which was instantly hailed for Caleb Deschanel’s gorgeous cinematography and Carroll Ballard’s lyrical direction.

• Saturday February 4
  10:30 AM
  120204TBLB31030 (ER)

All Dogs Go to Heaven

Don Bluth, Gary Goldman

Murdered by his gangster associates, canine con man Charlie B. Barkin (Burt Reynolds) pulls a fast one on heaven and returns to earth to set things straight in director Don Bluth’s inventive animated fantasy, which became one of the top-selling video releases of all time.

• Saturday February 11
  10:30 AM
  120211TBLB31030 (ER)

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson

George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe and Jason Schwartzman lend their voices to Wes Anderson's ceaselessly inventive, stop motion-animated adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl novel.

• Saturday February 18
  10:30 AM
  120218TBLB31030 (ER)

Dreamer

John Gatins

This overlooked family gem stars Dakota Fanning as a young girl who bonds with her horse-trainer dad (Kurt Russell) while nursing a badly injured racehorse back to prize-winning form.

• Saturday February 25
  10:30 AM
  120225TBLB31030 (TA)

Fly Away Home

Carroll Ballard

After rescuing a nest of baby geese, a thirteen-year-old New Zealand girl (Anna Paquin) determines to teach the motherless hatchlings how to migrate south for the winter, with the aid of her inventor father (Jeff Daniels) and his ultralight aircraft.

• Saturday March 3
  10:30 AM
  120303TBLB31030 (TA)