Family Videos / DVDs

Images from the family comedy movie How to Eat Fried Worms.

About the family comedy movie How to Eat Fried Worms on DVD.

Kurt Russell and Dakota Fanning star in this drama about a race horse and a young girl. When a promising horse breaks its leg, trainer Ben Crane (Russell) nurses it back to health with his daughter Cale (Fanning) there every step of the way. Eventually, the horse wins a big race, and father and daughter reconnect.

This is the fourth installment in the Harry Potter series. Now Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) are about 14 and in their fourth year at Hogwarts School. Find out more about Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on DVD.

While I don't actively dislike nature documentaries, I invariably find something else to do rather than watch the ones that air on TV. Thus, it came as something of a surprise to me that I so enjoyed "March of the Penguins" (2005), the hit documentary about the breeding cycle of emperor penguins in Antarctica. I highly recommend this movie to adults and children alike.

About the movie "The Polar Express" on DVD, including a summary of the movie and other DVD information.

In The Last Mimzy, two children find a box which was sent from the future in an effort to save humankind from ecological catastrophe. Find out more about this this sci-fi family movie.

This kids'adventure movie was shown in 3-D on the big screen. The story was developed from ideas suggested to director Robert Rodriguez by his seven-year-old son Racer. In the film, ten-year-old Max imagines a boy who is part shark and a girl who can control lava living in a place called Planet Drool. Then Max goes with Sharkboy and Lavagirl to their world, where they battle villains who look exactly like Max's teacher at school and Max's bullying classmate.

Adapted from the children's novel by Kate DiCamillo, this warmhearted drama is about a 10-year-old girl called Opal (AnnaSophia Robb). Opal has just moved to the small town of Naomi, Florida, with her preacher father (Jeff Daniels) and is having a difficult time adjusting. Read more about this movie on DVD.

Michelle Trachtenberg, Kim Cattrall, and Joan Cusack star in this lighthearted figure-skating movie. Casey (Trachtenberg), a high school student who's good at physics, conducts research on the movements of ice skaters. But along the way, she begins participating in the sport and gets coaching from a former Olympics-caliber competitor (Cattrall).

This is a children's animated movie based on A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories.

"The Incredibles" is available on DVD as two separate products, one with the feature film in widescreen, the other with the movie in full-screen. However, the bonus materials and special features of the two products are identical. Find out more about "The Incredibles" DVD.

Although this enchanting animated musical is aimed at kids, I expect that most adults will also enjoy it thoroughly.

Read my DVD review of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."

Fiona is a ten-year-old girl who has been sent to live with her grandparents on the west coast of Ireland. There she hears the curious legend that one of her ancestors married a selkie, a creature that is part woman, part seal. Read more...

Here's a movie the entire family can enjoy together. Read a review of "Monsters, Inc." on DVD.

Read my DVD review of "Shrek," an unusually hilarious, smart, and thought-provoking film.

I think that both kids and their parents will enjoy watching this movie. "Spirited Away" is a masterpiece of animation and an unusual one. Read a review of "Spirited Away" on DVD.

In 1937 Walt Disney created the first feature-length animated film in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," and this enchanting family film has remained popular ever since. Read my review of the two-disc Platinum Edition DVD version of this movie.

I was surprised how much this film about a Texas high school baseball coach moved me. Although schmaltzy at times, this was one of the best family-oriented movies I've seen in a many years. Read my review of this movie on DVD.

Read my review of "Whale Rider" on DVD.

This site covers movies in theatres and on video/DVD. They provide more of an in-depth look into a movie's content that you can get from simply looking at a film's MPAA rating.

From the Classification and Rating Administration (CARA), this is a database covering movies rated since 1968. You can look up a movies MPAA rating and the specific reasons it was given that rating.