The timeless tale has been adapted from Ron and Judi Barrett’s book, which illustrates a world where giant pancakes and pasta fall from the sky as a scientist tries to solve world hunger. However, things go terribly wrong when excess amounts of food overload cities and towns. Aspiring inventor Flint Lockwood is the socially awkward…
Category: Family Films
Coraline (2009)
Tagline: Be careful what you wish for. Based on Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling book, “Coraline” is the story of a young girl (voiced by Fanning) who unlocks a mysterious door in her new home, and enters into an adventure in a parallel reality. On the surface, this other world eerily mimics her own life –…
Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009)
Tagline: We’re not in Manhattan anymore. A highly successful Manhattan couple, Meryl and Paul Morgan (Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant), whose almost-perfect lives have only one notable failure – their dissolving marriage. But the turmoil of their romantic lives is nothing compared to what they are about to experience: they witness a murder and…
Everybody’s Fine (2009)
Tagline: Frank wanted the holidays to be picture perfect. What he got was family. Frank Goode (Robert De Niro) has spent his adult life working in a local wire factory earning every dollar he can to support his family. Recently retired, he realizes that over the years he has spent too little time with his…
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
“The Fantastic Mr. Fox” is visionary director Wes Anderson’s first animated film, utilizing classic handmade stop motion techniques to tell the story of the best selling children’s book by Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach). Mr and Mrs Fox (Clooney and Streep) live an idyllic home…
Fireflies in the Garden (2009)
Tagline: Having a son is not the same as being a father. Michael Taylor (Ryan Reynolds) is an author who has channeled his painful childhood memories into his novels. With some reluctance, he is flying home for his mother Lisa’s (Julia Roberts) college graduation. After a lifetime of putting everyone else first, stroking her husband’s…