Subgenre Sampler
Family: 1833 Films to Buy & Rent
Nanny McPhee (2005)
- Dir. Kirk Jones
Feat. Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly MacDonald…
- A well–bred British entertainment for children which fuses the traditional likes of MARY POPPINS with the current wave of gothic fantasy (Harry…
Neverwas (2005)
- Dir. Joshua Michael Stern
Feat. Ian McKellen, Aaron Eckhart, Brittany Murphy…
- Emotive, 'realist' fairytale concerns a psychiatrist (Eckhart) who discovers the magical world his deceased father (Nolte) wrote about in a Lewis…
Oliver Twist (2005)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley
- The latest adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic sees prominent Polish dir. Polanski helm an artful, if not straightforward interpretation of the…
Opal Dream (2005)
- Dir. Peter Cattaneo
Feat. Vince Colosimo, Jacqueline McKenzie
- Semi–precious gem of a family drama about a precocious 10–year–old girl in Australian 'opal country', who wreaks a cute brand of…
Peekaboo! (Cache Cache) (2005)
- Dir. Yves Caumon
Feat. Bernard Blancan, Lucia Sanchez, Antoine Chappey
- Peculiar fable of a hermit who takes residence inside a well after being ousted from the abandoned farmstead he’s squatted in for many…
Perfect Man, The (2005)
- Dir. Mark Rosman
Feat. Hilary Duff, Heather Locklear
- Romantic comedy finds teenager Duff trying to devise a romance between her mother (Locklear) and a 'dream' man, so as to inject some stability into…
Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
- Dir. Frank Nissen
Feat. Jim Cummings
- When a new animal comes to the Hundred Acre Woods Winnie the Pooh and his pals learn something about acceptance and understanding in this delightful…
Puzzle Inc. (TV Series) (2005)
- Highly educational kids series originally aired on TV2 that brings a collection of puzzle shapes to life through music, sounds and movement to create…
Racing Stripes (2005)
- Dir. Frederik Du Chau
Feat. Bruce Greenwood, M. Emmet Walsh, Hayden Panettiere
- Likable family comedy has 'Stripes' the zebra (voiced by Frankie Muniz) growing up on a farm believing he is a racehorse and being humoured by other…
Robots (2005)
- Dir. Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
- Set in a future world inhabited totally by robot creatures, this sparky animation from the creators of ICE AGE ratchets through its thriller plot…