Subgenre Sampler
Family: 1846 Films to Buy & Rent
March of the Penguins (2005)
- Dir. Luc Jacquet
- An engrossing and naturally spectacular documentary epic, which 'dramatises' the perils and hardship of the Emperor Penguin's annual migration…
Mee-Shee (The Water Giant) (2005)
- Dir. John Henderson
Feat. Bruce Greenwood, Rena Owen, Joel Tobeck
- A modest yet engaging family adventure, partly filmed in New Zealand, with special effects by 'Jim Henson's Creature Shop'.
Mickybo and Me (2005)
- Dir. Terry Loane
Feat. Adrian Dunbar, Gina McKee, Susan Lynch…
- Widely praised though little–seen drama which observes the friendship between two young lads – one Catholic, one Protestant –…
MirrorMask (2005)
- Dir. Dave McKean
Feat. Gina McKee, Stephanie Leonidas
- Inventive fantasy drama in which a teenage girl – born into a circus family – is traumatised by her mother's sudden illness and retreats…
Nanny McPhee (2005)
- Dir. Kirk Jones
Feat. Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly MacDonald…
- A well–bred British entertainment for children which fuses the traditional likes of MARY POPPINS with the current wave of gothic fantasy (Harry…
Neverwas (2005)
- Dir. Joshua Michael Stern
Feat. Ian McKellen, Aaron Eckhart, Brittany Murphy…
- Emotive, 'realist' fairytale concerns a psychiatrist (Eckhart) who discovers the magical world his deceased father (Nolte) wrote about in a Lewis…
Oliver Twist (2005)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley
- The latest adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic sees prominent Polish dir. Polanski helm an artful, if not straightforward interpretation of the…
Opal Dream (2005)
- Dir. Peter Cattaneo
Feat. Vince Colosimo, Jacqueline McKenzie
- Semi–precious gem of a family drama about a precocious 10–year–old girl in Australian 'opal country', who wreaks a cute brand of…
Peekaboo! (Cache Cache) (2005)
- Dir. Yves Caumon
Feat. Bernard Blancan, Lucia Sanchez, Antoine Chappey
- Peculiar fable of a hermit who takes residence inside a well after being ousted from the abandoned farmstead he’s squatted in for many…
Perfect Man, The (2005)
- Dir. Mark Rosman
Feat. Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear
- Romantic comedy finds teenager Duff trying to devise a romance between her mother (Locklear) and a 'dream' man, so as to inject some stability into…