Children's/Family Movies of 1985
The first film to be adapted from the popular children's television series Sesame Street, Follow That Bird follows the story of Big Bird after a social worker (Sally Kellerman) takes him away from ...
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This '80s follow-up to The Wizard of Oz is based upon two of L. Frank Baum's later
Oz books. In Return to Oz (a version that may ...
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In a film designed to bring smiles to the post-toddler set on up to perhaps their seven-year-old siblings, this animated story by Arna Selznick (only the third woman in ...
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Disney's The Journey of Natty Gann stars Meredith Salenger in the title role. During the Depression, Natty's father (Ray Wise) takes a job in a Northwestern lumber camp, leaving his ...
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Explorers turns out to be much ado about nothing, but it's so sublimely assembled we're willing to overlook the sappy climax. Young sci-fi geek Ben Crandall (Ethan Hawke) (could he possibly be based on director ...
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After introducing how Santa and Mrs. Claus came ...
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Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel Anne of Green Gables, previously filmed in 1934, was afforded a TV-movie treatment in ...
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Eight years before the dinosaur mania created by Jurassic Park, Bill L. Norton released this more dinosaur-friendly story about a 10-foot baby dinosaur in ...
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Melissa Gilbert acquits herself well in this old-fashioned family drama about a gritty Texas orphan named Charlie (Gilbert), a substitute parent for her brothers, determined to succeed in ...
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Walt Disney Pictures produced this ambitious, animated tale of sorcery and swordfighting. Taran (voice of Grant Bardsley), is an assistant to Dallben (voice of Freddie Jones), a pigkeeper in the ...
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Co-written by Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman, Pee Wee's Big Adventure marks the debut of director Tim Burton, who stamps the entire film with his quirky trademark style. The premise: Pee Wee (Reubens), an overgrown pre-pubescent boy ...
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Will Vinton, the stop-motion animation whiz who brought us The California Raisins, is the principal creative force behind The Adventures of Mark Twain. A clay-model Twain, voiced by James ...
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The robotic cartoon adventure series The Transformers begins its second season with the episode "Autobot Spike," in which one of the human allies of the Autobots in their ongoing ...
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Jess is determined to be the fastest kid in his fifth-grade class, and to that end, he's been diligently practicing the entire summer. His plans are upset, ...
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This comedy from Shelley Duvall's made-for-cable Tall Tales and Legends is fashioned after the famous baseball poem which features ...
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Victor Hugo's classic story The Hunchback of Notre Dame gets the animation treatment in this entry in Digital Versatile Disc, ...
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Part of the Kidsongs children's video series, in which young viewers join the upbeat Kidsongs Kids for ...
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Every time the story of Robin Hood is turned into a popular theatrical film, dozens of second-rate cinematic retellings of the legend pop up out of the woodwork. The 1985 Robin Hood is a ...
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Each edition of Wee Sing offers younger viewers a chance to sing along with both ...
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Nearly every parent dreads having to give their children "the talk" about how babies are made; this animated video, based on the book ...
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This episode of Shelley Duvall's American Tall Tales tells the rip-roaring story of Annie Oakley, one of the Old West's greatest sharpshooters and popular star of Buffalo Bill's traveling Wild West Show. The program includes some legendary ...
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Historias de las Biblia offers Spanish language animated versions of numerous Bible stories including Jonah and the Whale, Noah'sArk, and The Garden of Eden. ~ Perry Seibert, ...
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