Where the Wild Things Are
Release Date: 03/02/2010
Visionary director Spike Jonze brings Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book to the big screen with the help of hipster icon Dave Eggers, who teamed with Jonze to pen the adapted screenplay. A mixture of real actors, computer animation, and live puppeteering, Where the Wild Things Are follows the adventures of a young boy named Max (Max Records) as he enters the world of the Wild Things, a race of strange and enormous creatures who gradually turn the young boy into their king. ~ Jason Buchanan, All ...
Actor(s): Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini
Director(s): Spike Jonze
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Fantasy, Feature
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Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Release Date: 02/23/2010
Based on the popular series of books by Darren Shan, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant tells the story of a small-town teen who inadvertently shatters a 200-year-old truce between warring factions of vampires. Sixteen-year-old Darren (Chris Massoglia) is your typical adolescent; he spends most of his time with his best friend, Steve (Josh Hutcherson), earns decent grades, and generally manages to stay out of trouble. But trouble finds Darren when he and Steve make the acquaintance of a vampire ...
Actor(s): John C. Reilly, Josh Hutcherson, Chris Massoglia
Director(s): Paul Weitz
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genres: Fantasy, Feature
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Release Date: 12/08/2009
Adolescent wizard-in-training Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for another year of schooling and learns more about the dark past of the boy who grew up to become Lord Voldemort in this, the sixth installment of the film series that originated from the writings of author J.K. Rowling. There was a time when Hogwarts was thought of as a safe haven, but thanks to Voldemort's tightening grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, that simply isn't the case anymore. Suspecting that the castle may even ha ...
Actor(s): Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
Director(s): David Yates
MPAA Rating: PG
Genres: Fantasy, Feature
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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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