Subgenre Sampler
Family: 1838 Films to Buy & Rent
Thunderpants (2002)
- Dir. Peter Hewitt
Feat. Simon Callow, Stephen Fry, Paul Giamatti…
- Sweet but slight comedy concerning a 10–year old prodigy who turns his scientific talents towards helping a misfit friend who suffers from high…
Treasure Planet (2002)
- Dir. John Musker, Ron Clements
Feat. Emma Thompson, Martin Short, David Hyde Pierce
- A spaced–up animated version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s TREASURE ISLAND, with young Jim shipping aboard a galactic galleon with…
Tuck Everlasting (2002)
- Dir. Jay Russell
Feat. Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek, William Hurt…
- Family costumer set in 19th century Maryland, where a rebellious teenage girl discovers a mysterious world in the woods owned by her father. Therein…
Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People's Ears (...and More Stories From Africa) (2002)
- Sublime animated adaptation of three stories from authors Verna Aardema and Gail E. Haley, offering quirky tales from the animal kingdom. Aardema's…
Wild Thornberrys Movie, The (2002)
- Dir. Jeff McGrath, Cathy Malkasian
Feat. Lacey Chabert, Tom Kane, Tim Curry…
- The peculiar wilderness family that makes wildlife documentaries together get the big–screen treatment in this well liked version of…
Worst Witch, The (TV Series) (2002)
- Feat. Una Stubbs
- British TV Series chronicling the misadventures of Miss Cackle and her Academy for witches.
Angelina Ballerina (TV Series) (2001-2002)
- Animated TV series charts the pirouetting adventures of a young mouse who wants to be a ballerina. Cutesome stories are bolstered by thoughtfully…
Atlantis - The Lost Empire (2001)
- Dir. Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
- An exciting new direction for Disney animations, this swift–moving pulp adventure story is more Indiana Jones than LION KING.
Concocting an…
Back to the Secret Garden (2001)
- Dir. Michael Tuchner
Feat. Joan Plowright, George Baker, Cherie Lunghi…
- Sequel to the 1993 enchanted family adventure THE SECRET GARDEN set years later with the original children Mary and Colin now married (yes, they are…
Badjelly the Witch (2001)
- Based on the Spike Milligan story that entranced a generation of children, and translated into an unfussy animation.
Follow the adventures of Tim…