Subgenre Sampler
Family: 1833 Films to Buy & Rent
Dalmatian Vacation (1998)
- Dir. 1998
- It may be the sequel, but its still that same old litter of spotted pups strutting their stuff, this time on vacation with owners Roger and Anita.…
Dr. Dolittle (1998)
- Dir. Betty Thomas
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt…
- Slick remake of the 1967 musical replaces songs with tech wizardry and the comic mugging of Eddie Murphy as the medic who can 'talk to the…
Enid Blyton - Magic of the Faraway Tree (1998)
- Writer Enid Blyton (FAMOUS FIVE) waxes whimisical in these connected fantasy tales set in the upper branches of a great cosmic plant, animated with…
Ever After (1998)
- Dir. Andy Tennant
Feat. Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston
- Update of the 'Cinderella' story tweaks the moral emphasis of the original Grimm fairy–tale. A brunette Drew Barrymore wrestles with an English…
Goodnight Mister Tom (Goodnight Mr. Tom) (1998)
- Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. John Thaw
- Touching tele–adaptation of the beloved wartime novel about a young boy relocated during London’s air raids to live with an old hermit in the…
Jungle Book - Mowgli's Story (1998)
- Dir. Nick Marck
- Disney's live–action version of Rudyard Kipling's famous children's series in which the boy Mowgli is adopted into the ways of the jungle by…
Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
- Dir. Michel Ocelot
- A stunning French animation based on a West African folktale in which a tiny boy, Kirikou, emerges walking and talking from his mother's womb and…
Land Before Time 6: The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998)
- The series shows no sign of diminishing returns with this adventure in which Dinah and Dana have run away to search for the mysterious Saurus Rock. …
Lion King 2: Simba's Pride (1998)
- Dir. Rob LaDuca, Darrell Rooney
- Life on the Savannah continues with Simba's lion–cub daughter Kiara running away from the pride into a movie of her own, where she falls in…
Madeline (1998)
- Dir. Daisy Von Scherler Mayer
Feat. Hatty Jones, Frances McDormand
- Little Hatty Jones is quite marvellous as a cutey–rebel redhead boarding at a school of etiquette presided by groovy nun Frances McDormand in…