Subgenre Sampler
Family: 1838 Films to Buy & Rent
Jungle Book - Mowgli's Story (1998)
- Dir. Nick Marck
- Disney's live–action version of Rudyard Kipling's famous children's series in which the boy Mowgli is adopted into the ways of the jungle by…
Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
- Dir. Michel Ocelot
- A stunning French animation based on a West African folktale in which a tiny boy, Kirikou, emerges walking and talking from his mother's womb and…
Land Before Time 6: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998)
- The series shows no sign of diminishing returns with this adventure in which Dinah and Dana have run away to search for the mysterious Saurus Rock. …
Lion King 2: Simba's Pride (1998)
- Dir. Rob LaDuca, Darrell Rooney
- Life on the Savannah continues with Simba's lion–cub daughter Kiara running away from the pride into a movie of her own, where she falls in…
Madeline (1998)
- Dir. Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Feat. Hatty Jones, Frances McDormand
- Little Hatty Jones is quite marvellous as a cutey–rebel redhead boarding at a school of etiquette presided by groovy nun Frances McDormand in…
Magic Sword: Quest for Camelot, The (1998)
- Dir. Frederik Du Chau
- When King Arthur's sword Excalibur disappears, teenage tearaway Kayley and her squire Garrett pursue the culprits through an animated fantasy world…
Merlin (1998)
- Dir. Steve Barron
Feat. Sam Neill, Isabella Rossellini, Rutger Hauer…
- Playing the titular wizard, Sam Neill lends his talents to a well thought–out, monster–filled variation on the King Arthur cycle. Other…
Mouse Hunt (1998)
- Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Christopher Walken
- Larger than life, very entertaining all–ages comedy follows the misfortunes of brothers Nathan Lane and Lee Evans, who inherit the family…
Mr. Magoo (1998)
- Dir. Stanley Tong
Feat. Leslie Nielsen, Kelly Lynch
- Disney live–action remake, with Leslie Nielsen assuming the squint and bumbling crankiness of the small–screen 'toon. In this instance,…
Mulan (1998)
- Feat. Eddie Murphy, Donny Osmond, Ming Na
- Animated epic based on a kind of Chinese Joan of Arc character from the Wei Dynasty, who disguises herself as a man so she can take her father's…