Subgenre Sampler
Family > Adventure: 177 Films to Buy & Rent
Borrowers, The (1998)
- Dir. Peter Hewitt
Feat. John Goodman, Jim Broadbent
- Inhabiting the wall and floor–spaces of our houses, colonies of tiny people eek out an existence 'borrowing' food–scraps and those items…
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…
Enid Blyton's Secret Series (TV Series) (1997)
- Follow–up to the popular Kiwi–produced 'Adventure Series', with the intrepid Arnold family embarking on more thrills and spills the world…
George of the Jungle (1997)
- Dir. Sam Weisman
Feat. Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church
- Loose JUNGLE BOOK parody has Brendan Fraser as the hunky klutz in a loin cloth, raised by gorillas, who discovers love in the form of Ursula, whose…
Alaska (1996)
- Dir. Fraser Heston
Feat. Thora Birch, Vincent Kartheiser, Dirk Benedict…
- Chilly warm–fuzzies abound in this amenable children's adventure – a kind of CLIFFHANGER for kids! Bro and Sis set off in search of their…
Enid Blyton - Island of Adventure (TV Series) (1996)
- Dir. Peter Rose
- Volume 1) A fearless foursome of intrepid kids and a parrot, fossick around in a seaside setting, uncovering old smuggling caves and a…
Enid Blyton's Adventure Series (TV Series) (1996)
- Kiwi–made series based on stories by Enid Blyton has four children embark on a series of adventures that takes them across land and sea.
Fly Away Home (1996)
- Dir. Carroll Ballard
Feat. Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels
- Hutt girl Anna Paquin gets blessed with a role that many a Hollywood brat would kill for! After adopting a flock of baby geese, she sets about…
Goosebumps (TV Series) (1996)
- Ghoulish anthology series based on R. L. Stine's popular kidult horror novels. Bound to raise goosebumps on the younger ones.
Season One Episodes:…
Loch Ness (1996)
- Dir. John Henderson
Feat. Ted Danson, Joely Richardson, Ian Holm…
- Setting out to trap the Loch Ness monster, Ted Danson is waylaid by the charms of his landlady Joely Richardson. The mystique of the legend is all…