Comments on: ‘Colorful’ and Clean Tween Movies

By: Sunbonnet Sue

Sunbonnet Sue — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:52:02 +0000

Second Hand Lions is awesome. We also love Nanny McPhee. One that appeals to all my children is the animated Warner Brothers version of Wind in the Willows. Another good sports one is Rookie of the Year.

By: elissa

elissa — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:05:19 +0000

These are not incredible racially diverse but great family movies.

Princess Bride, Sandlot, the remake by Disney of Where the Red Fern Grows (very well done), Second Hand Lions (has a unique family unit).

This is great by the way, there are some movies on here we have never seen and I am anxious to go to Block Buster and get a few at a time!

Thanks:)

By: carrien

carrien — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:04:41 +0000

oh, I love Mad Hot Ballroom.

It's a documentary about the ball room dancing program in New York's public schools and the city wide competition. It's so much fun to watch the kids dance and get better, my very small children liked it, and it's very racially diverse in the casting. My son said to me the second time we watched it, he was 4, "Mommy, someday when I grow up and become a brown boy maybe I could dance like that too?"

Which of course cracked me up.

By: pandaffodil

pandaffodil — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:25:15 +0000

I can’t recommend Duma enough. A beautiful story, gorgeous cinematography.

By: awillcox

awillcox — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:13:52 +0000

Here are a few to consider. The list is diverse, although individual films may not be:

The Story of the Weeping Camel
The Miracle Maker
Fiddler on the Roof
The Black Stallion
The Black Stallion Returns (more diverse)
Cocteau's La Belle et La Bette
My Neighbor Totoro
Spirited Away (and anything Miyazaki)
Zozo

There's a great discussion of films for kids here: http://artsandfaith.com/index.php?showforum=51

And you can harvest a bunch of film names from the NY Int'l Children's Film Festival at gkids.com.

By: Sunbonnet Sue

Sunbonnet Sue — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:34:53 +0000

There is also Disney’s “Cool Runnings” and “Mighty Ducks.” There’s also a great one with Cuba Gooding Jr., can’t remember the name of it, but is a sled dog race one, adoption themed. There are a bunch of sports themed ones that are good. Also, we purchase seasons of old TV shows, like Hogans Heros, Mork and Mindy, Quantum Leap, etc, and watch them one episode at a time.

By: aspecialfamily2

aspecialfamily2 — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:58:00 +0000

Thought of a movie in the middle of the night (yes I am one of those people who wakes up remembering things I was thinking about before I went to sleep)
Yours, Mine and Ours with Dennie Quade
(one of the families is adoptive with African American and I think Korean children)

By: bethpend

bethpend — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:30:31 +0000

“Rudy” is a great movie. It makes my husband and I cry every time we watch it (and it’s football, so it should appeal to those boys)

By: Mary Owlhaven

Mary Owlhaven — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:16:28 +0000

Shana, We’ve ended up with a bit more focus on ‘girl’ movies lately. But our boys liked all the movies I mentioned except the Cinderella one…

Mary

PS– The kids watched ‘Akeela and the Bee’ at Layla too…

By: missyq

missyq — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:05:14 +0000

Facing the Giants is amazing, not sure if the little ones would sit through it. Eight Below and Cheaper By The Dozen are also very good but I don’t think racially diverse. I just have to say thanks for this post because it’s something I’ve never even thought of. We are praying about adopting two little ones that are African American and it’s little things like this that you tend to take for granted.