UK:PG certified movies

Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Dan Aykroyd | John Goodman | Joe Morton | Nia Peeples | Kathleen Freeman | J. Evan Bonifant | Frank Oz | Steve Lawrence | Darrell Hammond | Erykah Badu | Walter Levine | Tom Davis | Shann Johnson | B.B. King | Gloria Slade
Directors: John Landis
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Primarily a two hour video, albeit a very good one, this sequel picks up 18 years later from the original and finds Elwood Blues being released from prison and trying to re-form his old band with new lead singer Mighty Mac replacing Jake. A road trip culminates with a battle of the bands against the Louisiana Gators led by B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Dr. John, and others.

RV (2006)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Cheryl Hines | Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque | Josh Hutcherson | Jeff Daniels | Kristin Chenoweth | Hunter Parrish | Chloe Sonnenfeld | Alex Ferris | Will Arnett | Tony Hale | Brian Howe | Richard Ian Cox | Erika-Shaye Gair | Veronika Sztopa
Directors: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Bob Munro is the dad of a dysfunctional family. He hires an RV to take the family on vacation. However Bob is NOT the best RV steering wheel operator in the neighborhood and the hilarity is added on by the fact that the brakes are about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. Bob first realizes it when the RV rolls (not literally) backwards into a line of shopping carts. Also Bob’s job is in danger if he doesn’t go to a very important meeting. Before you can say “COME BACK! COME BACK!,” things go gloriously, hilariously, Munro-annoyingly wrong due to the lack of brakes, Bob’s job, toilet waste not cleared out from the last rental and more hilarious stuff.

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Danny Elfman | Chris Sarandon | Catherine O'Hara | William Hickey | Glenn Shadix | Paul Reubens | Ken Page | Ed Ivory | Susan McBride | Debi Durst | Greg Proops | Kerry Katz | Randy Crenshaw | Sherwood Ball | Carmen Twillie
Directors: Henry Selick
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Bored and unhappy with the life of being “The Pumpkin King” Jack Skellington of Halloween Town, Jack sets out to find something exciting. Jack discovers “Christmas Town” and takes it upon himself to take over the duties of Santa to deliver toys across the world to children.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter O'Toole | Alec Guinness | Anthony Quinn | Jack Hawkins | Omar Sharif | José Ferrer | Anthony Quayle | Claude Rains | Arthur Kennedy | Donald Wolfit | I.S. Johar | Gamil Ratib | Michel Ray | John Dimech | Zia Mohyeddin
Directors: David Lean
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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: John Cleese | Alan Rickman | Rupert Grint | Emma Watson | Daniel Radcliffe | Maggie Smith | Robbie Coltrane | Saunders Triplets | Richard Harris | Fiona Shaw | Harry Melling | Richard Griffiths | Derek Deadman | Ian Hart | Ben Borowiecki | Warwick Davis | Verne Troyer | John Hurt | Richard Bremmer
Directors: Chris Columbus
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Meryl Streep | Jane Alexander | Justin Henry | Howard Duff | George Coe | JoBeth Williams | Bill Moor | Howland Chamberlain | Jack Ramage | Jess Osuna | Nicholas Hormann | Ellen Parker | Shelby Brammer | Carol Nadell
Directors: Robert Benton
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Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new responsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted however refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son.

Serendipity (2001)

Friday, December 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: John Cusack | Kate Beckinsale | Lilli Lavine | Michael Guarino Jr. | Abdul Alshawish | Ann Talman | Crystal Bock | Stephen Bruce | David Sparrow | Gary Gerbrandt | Jeremy Piven | Bridget Moynahan | Kate Blumberg | Ron Payne | Marcia Bennett
Directors: Peter Chelsom
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Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas met while shopping for gloves in New York. Though buying for their respective lovers, the magic was right and a night of Christmas shopping turned into romance. Jon wanted to explore things further but Sara wasn’t sure their love was meant to be. They decided to test fate by splitting up and seeing if destiny brought them back together… Many years later, having lost each other that night, both are engaged to be married. Still, neither can shake the need to give fate one last chance to reunite them. Jon enlists the help of his best man to track down the girl he can’t forget starting at the store where they met. Sara asks her new age musician fiance for a break before the wedding and, with her best friend in tow, flies from California to New York hoping destiny will bring her soulmate back. Near-misses and classic Shakespearean confusion bring the two close to meeting a number of times but fate will have the final word on whether it was meant to be.

Scrooged (1988)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Murray | Karen Allen | John Forsythe | John Glover | Bob Goldthwait | David Johansen | Carol Kane | Robert Mitchum | Nicholas Phillips | Michael J. Pollard | Alfre Woodard | Mabel King | Joel Murray | Jamie Farr | Robert Goulet
Directors: Richard Donner
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Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens’ Christmas Carol. Frank’s childhood wasn’t a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn’t really appreciate the Christmas spirit. With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises he must change.

I’ll Be Home for Christmas (1998)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Jonathan Taylor Thomas | Jessica Biel | Adam LaVorgna | Gary Cole | Eve Gordon | Lauren Maltby | Andrew Lauer | Sean O'Bryan | Lesley Boone | Amzie Strickland | Natalie Barish | Mark de la Cruz | Kathleen Freeman | Jack Kenny | Celia Kushner
Directors: Arlene Sanford
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A college student experiences difficulty in getting home for Christmas after being hazed by his friends. While struggling to get home in time for Christmas, he learns quite a bit about himself and the true meaning of the holiday.

*batteries not included (1987)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Hume Cronyn | Jessica Tandy | Frank McRae | Elizabeth Peña | Michael Carmine | Dennis Boutsikaris | Tom Aldredge | Jane Hoffman | John DiSanti | John Pankow | MacIntyre Dixon | Michael Greene | Doris Belack | Wendy Schaal | José Angel Santana
Directors: Matthew Robbins
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A group of tenants in an apartment block are being forced to move out so that it can be demolished. The tenants are reluctant to move, so the developers hire a local gang to ‘persuade’ them to leave. Fortunately, visiting alien mechanical life-forms come to town. When they befriend the tenants, the aliens use their extraterrestrial abilities to defeat the developers.

Stay Tuned (1992)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: John Aasen | John Ritter | Jeffrey Jones | David Tom | Heather McComb | Bob Dishy | Joyce Gordon | Eugene Levy | Erik King | Don Calfa | John B. Destry | Susan Blommaert | Maurice Verkaar | Ken Douglas | Gerry Nairn
Directors: Peter Hyams
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Roy and Helen Knable are having problems. Roy has become a couch potato and Helen resents this. After a fight, Spike, a high ranking devil, appears to offer Roy the ultimate satellite system. Roy signs without realising he has sold his soul. When he is sucked into the cable version of Hell, Helen is sucked in with him. They go through the satanic variety of cable TV where dying will consign them to damnation. Shows they find themselves on include: “Driving over Miss Daisy”; “Northern Overexposure” and “Autopsies of the Rich and Famous”. Roy must take charge and save them from the dangers of this cable Hell.

Antz (1998)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Woody Allen | Dan Aykroyd | Anne Bancroft | Jane Curtin | Danny Glover | Gene Hackman | Jennifer Lopez | John Mahoney | Paul Mazursky | Grant Shaud | Sylvester Stallone | Sharon Stone | Christopher Walken | Jim Cummings | April Winchell
Directors: Eric Darnell
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Z is just another ant in a colony of millions, striving for individuality. He falls in love with Princess Bala, and convinces his Warrior ant friend Weaver to switch places with him for a day, so that he can see Princess Bala once again. The outcome of this throws Z into a bigger adventure than he ever dreamed possible…

The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Sean Connery | Michael Caine | Christopher Plummer | Saeed Jaffrey | Doghmi Larbi | Jack May | Karroom Ben Bouih | Mohammad Shamsi | Albert Moses | Paul Antrim | Graham Acres | The Blue Dancers of Goulamine | Shakira Caine | Gurmuks Singh | Kimat Singh
Directors: John Huston
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” The Man Who Would Be King” is about two ambitious ex-soldiers stationed in India who set out to become the rulers of an entire country. After finishing their tour of duty in India, Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan have decided that India is “too small for the likes of them,” so they decide to bribe a local ruler and extort money from him, in order to buy twenty Martini rifles, which they will use to take over villages in Kafristan. They face many challenges and perils along the way, including difficult terrain, hostile natives, freezing temperatures, and an avalanche high in the mountains. They eventually come to a small village, Urheb, where they meet Ootah and Billy Fish, an Indian who speaks English; he then becomes their translator. They then train the natives of this village to use the rifles, and soon conquer village after village. During a battle, Daniel is struck by an arrow that seemingly sticks out of his chest. The ignorant natives believe that he must be a God for not having died, and fall down and begin worshiping him. Daniel and Peachy decide that it would be easier for a “God ” to take over the country, so they pretend that Daniel is a god, the son of Alexander the Great who has returned after 2200 years to again rule Kafristan. The entire country celebrated the return of their new ruler, the Son of Segunda (”Alexander”). As a token of their admiration, the holiest of holy men gives Daniel all of the gold and riches left by Alexander in 328 B.C. It is enough to make them the richest men in the world . . . All goes well until Daniel’s ego and greed gets the best of him. He asks Peachy to bow when he walks in front of him. He later tells Peachy that he has decided to stay, and now believes that he is the son of Alexander ( ‘in spirit, anyways”), and that to fulfill his destiny, he will marry Roxanne, like his “father” Alexander did before him. The Kafiri’s believe that a mortal cannot marry a God, but Daniel goes ahead anyway. Peachy was set to leave with his share of the treasure, but Daniel convinced him to stay ” for old time’s sake” for the wedding. At the ceremony, Roxanne, believing that she would soon die, bites Daniel, drawing blood. The entire crowd realizes that since Danny is bleeding, that he is a man, not a God, and that he has been deceiving them the entire time. Peachy grabs Daniel and they run off with their twenty soldiers, shooting at the crowd of monks who set out to kill them. They are eventually captured, and Daniel is forced to walk out on a rope bridge. The monks cut the ropes, and Daniel bravely falls to his death. Peachy is later crucified; when they come to see him the next day, he is still alive, and they say that it is a miracle that he lived and they cut him down. He eventually climbs down into the valley and retrieves Danny’s head, still wearing the crown. He brings it back to Rudyard Kipling, a writer for the Northern Star, as proof that Daniel accomplished his goal, and became the King of Kafristan. Themes developed in the story: 1. ambition 2. friendship 3. taking risks 4. perseverance (not giving up) 5. power 6. honor and dignity

The Freshman (1990)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Matthew Broderick | Bruno Kirby | Penelope Ann Miller | Frank Whaley | Jon Polito | Paul Benedict | Richard Gant | Kenneth Welsh | Pamela Payton-Wright | B.D. Wong | Maximilian Schell | Bert Parks | Tex Konig | Leonardo Cimino
Directors: Andrew Bergman
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Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine “Jimmy the Toucan” Sabatini, an “importer” bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. When Sabatini makes Clark an offer he can’t refuse, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.

Oh, God! Book II (1980)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: George Burns | Suzanne Pleshette | David Birney | Louanne | John Louie | Conrad Janis | Anthony Holland | Hugh Downs | Joyce Brothers | Wilfrid Hyde-White | Marian Mercer | Bebe Drake | Mari Gorman | Vernon Weddle | Alma Beltran
Directors: Gilbert Cates
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Second ‘Oh God’ movie has God (again in the form of George Burns) appearing before 11-year-old Tracy Richards (Louanne) to ask for her help to spread his word and influence over the world which she suggests the slogan ‘Think God.’ Naturaly, Tracy’s divorced parents Paula (Suzanne Pleshette) and Don (David Birney) think Tracy’s just crazy and plot to halt her ‘heaven-sent’ mission to spread God’s word.