The Christmas Clause
Release Date: 11/10/2009
A stressed-out mother makes a Christmas wish for a different life, only to realize that the sweet life doesn't come without its fair share of cavities in this uplifting holiday fantasy starring Lea Thompson. Between maintaining her career as a high-powered lawyer, tending to her three kids, and maintaining her relationship with her loving husband, Sophie Kelly (Thompson) never has a spare minute to herself. When Sophie takes her kids to the mall and Santa asks her what she wants for Christmas, she im ...
Actor(s): Lea Thompson, Andrew Airlie, Laura Mennell
Director(s): George Erschbamer
MPAA Rating: NR
Genres: Fantasy
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Coraline
Release Date: 07/28/2009
A young girl walks through a secret door and discovers a parallel reality that is eerily similar to the life she already knows, yet deeply unsettling in a number of ways, in director Henry Selick's animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman's international best-seller. Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones (voice of Dakota Fanning) is fearlessly courageous, and perhaps far too adventurous for her own good. Coraline and her parents (Teri Hatcher and John Hodgman) have recently relocated to Oregon from Michigan. Bore ...
Actor(s): Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Ian McShane
Director(s): Henry Selick
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Fantasy, Animated
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Inkheart
Release Date: 06/23/2009
Author Cornelia Funke's best-selling children's novel comes to vivid life on the big screen with this family-friendly tale about a bookbinder whose storytelling skills possess the curious power to transport the characters he speaks about into the real world. When a nefarious villain from a bedtime story that the father is currently reading to his daughter emerges to kidnap the stunned storyteller, it's up to the young girl and her adventurous friends -- both real and imaginary -- to bring dad back ho ...
Actor(s): Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent
Director(s): Iain Softley
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Fantasy, Feature
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Bedtime Stories
Release Date: 04/07/2009
The Pacifier director Adam Shankman helms this children's fantasy concerning a hotel handyman who gradually begins to realize that the imaginative bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew are somehow beginning to manifest themselves in the real world. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide ...
Actor(s): Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce
Director(s): Adam Shankman
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Fantasy, Feature
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Twilight
Release Date: 03/21/2009
When Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) reluctantly moved to the perpetually overcast town of Forks, WA, and set out to carve a niche for herself, she assumed it would be one similar to the low-profile social position she held back in Phoenix. First on the list of surprises was the unfamiliar attention from the male population of her new high school; second, the attention from one male in particular: Edward Cullen, Vampire (Robert Pattinson). Before long, the unlikely soul mates find themselves in a passio ...
Actor(s): Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke
Director(s): Catherine Hardwicke
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Fantasy, Feature
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Release Date: 12/02/2008
The adventure continues as producer/director Andrew Adamson teams with screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely to tell the tale of the dashing Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes) -- who sets out to defeat a tyrannical king who has overtaken Narnia and secure his rightful place on the throne. One year has passed since the events of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and now the kings and queens of that land have returned to make a shocking discovery. Though by their ...
Actor(s): Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley
Director(s): David Strangmuller
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Fantasy, Feature
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