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Chicken LittleGenre: Comedies Release Date: 03/21/2006 Rating G Production Year: 2005 Run Time: 81 mins Released By: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Cast: Zach Braff, Joan Cusack, Don Knotts, Catherine O'Hara, Steve Zahn Disney's first venture into the realm of CGI animation (without Pixar) tells the tale of all-animal town Oakey Oaks's most infamous resident, Chicken Little (voiced by Zach Braff), who causes town-wide panic when he claims the sky is falling. A year later he's still shunned by everyone, including his dad (Gary Marshall), a single rooster with an incredibly wide tie. Determined to end his losing streak, the bespectacled Little joins the baseball team, even though he can barely lift the bat. Luckily his three equally outcast friends have faith in him: a pig with a yen for '70s disco (Steve Zahn); a Harpo Marx-esque goldfish in a diving helmet; and Abby, a buck-toothed female duckling (Joan Cusak). According to her sources in magazines such as Modern Mallard, Abby is sure Chicken Little merely needs "closure" with dad over the sky incident. But when the sky really does start falling due to a full-on alien invasion, and only Chicken Little knows why, dad still doesn't want to believe him. Kids are sure to understand Chick's frustration in this matter, and parents will dig the sly riffs on films like VERTIGO (1958), THE BLOB (1959), INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996), and WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953), as well as Disney's own back catalog. In place of the usual musical numbers, CHICKEN LITTLE includes montages set to Barenaked Ladies songs and reinterpreted pop favorites (the old Art Garfunkel gut-wrencher, "All I Know," is a standout), while celebrity voiceovers come from Harry Shearer, Wallace Shawn, Patrick Stewart, Adam West, and Don Knotts, with Amy Sedaris as the obnoxious "Foxy Loxy." … more less -
Parent Trap 2 Movie Collection, TheGenre: Comedies Release Date: 09/27/2005 Rating G Production Year: 2005 Cast: Hayley Mills Hayley Mills plays child and adult twins in the classic THE PARENT TRAP and its sequel THE PARENT TRAP II. THE PARENT TRAP: In this Academy Award-nominated 1961 favorite, two long-separated twin sisters meet unexpectedly at a summer camp and are shocked to discover their complete resemblance. Upon learning that they are in fact related, they hatch an ingenious plot to reunite their divorced parents. THE PARENT TRAP II: Many years after being reunited, twin sisters Sharon and Susan (Hayley Mills) are working adults. Sharon is even a parent, raising a feisty 11-year-old named Nikki all on her own. When Nikki and her friend Mary devise a plan to set up Sharon with Mary's widowed father, they call on Aunt Susan for some much-needed help. … more less -
Nanny - The Complete Third Season, TheGenre: Comedies Release Date: 03/17/2009 Rating G Production Year: 1995 Run Time: 619 mins Released By: Sony Pictures Home Cast: Fran Drescher, Charles Shaughnessy, Daniel Davis, Lauren Lane, Madeline Zima Fran Drescher (THIS IS SPINAL TAP, THE BEAUTICIAN AND THE BEAST) plays Fran Fine, an ex-hairdresser from Queens who becomes the nanny to millionaire bachelor Maxwell Sheffield's three children. With sass, attitude, colorful fashion, killer looks, and lots of heart, Fine quickly becomes the glue that holds the troubled family together in this popular television sitcom. Elizabeth Taylor guest stars in the 27-episode third season, which originally aired in 1995-'96. The romantic chemistry between Sheffield and Fine continues to simmer as the family stumbles from one hilarious situation to the next. THE NANNY co-stars a young Madeline Zima, who, over a decade later, would go on to enjoy much fame for her role in the hit cable series CALIFORNICATION. … more less -
Blackbeard's GhostGenre: Comedies Release Date: 08/05/2003 Rating G Production Year: 1968 Run Time: 106 mins Released By: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Cast: Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester, Richard Deacon Peter Ustinov stars in this late 1960s Disney film as the dread pirate Blackbeard, risen from the dead by his ancestor, a college track coach, who hopes that Blackbeard can help him rid himself of some pesky racketeers who have plans to turn his house into a casino. … more less -
Princess Protection ProgramGenre: Comedies Release Date: 06/30/2009 Rating G Production Year: 2009 Run Time: 89 mins Released By: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Cast: Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Nicholas Braun, Molly Hagan When the beautiful Rosalinda (Demi Lovato) is forced to enter the "Princess Protection Program," the pampered royal must move in with a tomboy named Carter (Selena Gomez). Though at first the girls seem to have nothing in common, they soon bring out the best in each other: Rosalinda gets a lesson in grace and humility, while Carter learns to embrace her fabulous femininity. This hit Disney Channel original movie is a fun and funny fairytale for tweens, and offers terrific behind-the-scenes footage of Lovato and Gomez dishing about their friendship on and off the set. The release also includes the featurette "A Royal Reality," which features a real-life princess revealing the truth about a life spent in castles and ballgowns! … more less -
Bye Bye BirdieGenre: Comedies Release Date: 07/20/1999 Rating G Production Year: 1963 Run Time: 112 mins Released By: Sony Pictures Home Cast: Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Paul Lynde, Maureen Stapleton This entertaining musical, based on the Broadway hit inspired by the hysteria surrounding Elvis Presley's induction into the army, traces the shock waves a drafted rock & roll star, Conrad Birdie (Jesse Pearson), creates when he comes to a small town to kiss adoring fan Kim McAfee (Ann-Margret) good-bye on national TV. A fiesty secretary, Rosie DeLeon (Janet Leigh), has put the whole plan in motion, hoping that Birdie will sing a song composed by her beau, Albert Peterson (Dick Van Dyke), enabling Rosie's boyfriend to finally break free of his domineering mother (Maureen Stapleton) and marry her. Meanwhile, Kim's new steady, Hugo (Bobby Rydell), is less than pleased about the spotlighted embrace, as are her parents (Paul Lynde and Mary LaRoche)--at least until they get in on the action too. Ed Sullivan appears as himself, Ann-Margret is her usual perky, gyrating self, Van Dyke amply displays his wealth of talents, and Lynde and Stapleton nearly steal the whole production with their hilarious supporting roles. Director George Sidney, who would soon collaborate with the real King in the Presley tour de force VIVA LAS VEGAS, tightens the Broadway original without losing any of its verve and charm to create a rollicking uptempo joyride through a candy-colored early 1960s pop-culture landscape. … more less -
Apple Dumpling GangGenre: Comedies Release Date: 02/07/2006 Rating G Production Year: 1975 Cast: Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, Don Knotts, Tim Conway, David Wayne This Disney Western has roving bachelor Bill Bixby getting saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters stumble upon a huge gold nugget. They join forces with two bumbling outlaws--Don Knotts and Tim Conway, of course--to fend off the greedy townspeople and are soon facing a surly gang of sharpshooters. … more less -
Cat From Outer Space, TheGenre: Comedies Release Date: 01/16/2007 Rating G Production Year: 1978 Cast: Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall, McLean Stevenson An intelligent being from another planet in the form of a cat named Jake (voiced by Ronnie Schell) visits earth and enlists the aid of U.S. scientists to help rebuild his spaceship. Jake happens to be able to predict sporting event results and attracts some military types who think they are seeking a spaceman, not a spacecat. … more less -
Snowball ExpressGenre: Comedies Release Date: 06/03/2003 Rating G Production Year: 1972 Run Time: 93 mins Released By: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Cast: Dean Jones, Nancy Olson, Harry Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Johnnie Whitaker Dean Jones stars in this classic Disney film as John Baxter, a New York executive tired of big city life who happens to inherit a hotel in the Rocky Mountains. Deciding this is the opportunity of a lifetime, John quits his job and convinces his family to move to Colorado to run the hotel. Unfortunately, the Baxter is greeted by a run down building that hasn't been inhabited for years. Undaunted, the Baxters set about fixing up the place, not knowing that a local businessman is scheming to get his hands on the property by any means necessary. SNOWBALL EXPRESS is a delightful Disney comedy filled with slapstick and goofy pratfalls that are fun for the whole family. … more less -
Mr. Bean's HolidayGenre: Comedies Release Date: 11/27/2007 Rating G Production Year: 2007 Run Time: 90 mins Released By: Universal Studios Home Video Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Emma de Caunes, Jean Rochefort, William Dafoe The hopelessly daft but delightful Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is back in this jovial comedy. This time he wins a trip to the Cannes Film Festival and havoc ensues to such an extent that he may never even get there. Mostly a series of episodes involving Bean's inability to communicate with French and Russian speakers, this will please youngsters who may be unable to hold continual plot lines together and for whom adult language is still a bafflement. Many of the extended bits are funny: there's Bean's frantic attempts to catch the train, his fouling up World War Two movie set, knocking shellfish into a lady's purse, messing up the Cannes premiere of an uptight director, and bonding with a Russian boy who gets separated from his father (thanks to Bean's misdoings). An aspiring young actress (Emma de Caunes) helps out and Willem Dafoe is the uptight director. Nay-sayng critics will say that Atkinson's rubbery, contorted face and spastic physicality are perhaps best left on the small screen, but millions of Bean fans can't be wrong; there's plenty to enjoy, from the hilarious scene of Bean earning money by lip-synching the songs of a fellow busker, to his meddling in the projection booth at Cannes. The kid in all of us, perhaps still smarting from being called clumsy and clueless, should delight in Bean's weird brand of perfect revenge. As a bonus, the cinematography is beautiful, capturing the glistening waves and beautiful beaches of the Riviera with a travelogue's eye. … more less -
Twelve Chairs, TheGenre: Comedies Release Date: 09/05/2006 Rating G Production Year: 1970 Run Time: 93 mins Released By: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Cast: Mel Brooks, Frank Langella, Ron Moody, Bridget Brice, Dom DeLuise A stylish, frantic fable and one of director Mel Brooks's earliest films, THE TWELVE CHAIRS is a madcap mystery set in revolutionary Russia. An aging ex-nobleman of the czarist regime, Count I.M. Vorobyaninov (Ron Moody), has finally adjusted to life under the commissars in Russia. But when both he and the local priest, Father Fyodor (Dom DeLuise), find out that a fortune in the count's family jewels is hidden in a chair's upholstery--the chair being one of a set of 12--they each separately return to Moscow to find the hidden fortune. Along the way, the count enlists the aid of a thief (Frank Langella) in the hilarious treasure hunt. Closer in style to THE PRODUCERS than many of Brooks' other spoofs, THE TWELVE CHAIRS is an overlooked comedy gem. DeLuise gives an uproarious performance in which he employs slapstick and physical humor liberally. There is a human side to this film, too, just as there was with Zero Mostel's character, Max Bialystock, in THE PRODUCERS, in the form of Moody's Vorobyaninov. Based on a Russian novel, THE TWELVE CHAIRS marries neurotic humor and cultural dilemmas in the same vein as classic Woody Allen films in later years. … more less -
CandleshoeGenre: Comedies Release Date: 06/01/2004 Rating G Production Year: 1977 Run Time: 101 mins Released By: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Cast: Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster, Leo McKern, David Niven, Veronica Quilligan Casey Brown (Jodie Foster), a street-wise L.A. kid, joins with a con man (Leo McKern) to cheat Lady St. Edmund (Helen Hayes) whom they believe possesses buried treasure. Casey poses the woman's long-lost granddaughter, but soon finds that life in the mansion isn't what she had expected. This film contains a notable performance by David Niven, who plays a number of characters, including the butler Mr. Priory. … more less -
Absent-Minded Professor, TheGenre: Comedies Release Date: 02/07/2006 Rating G Production Year: 1961 Run Time: 96 mins Released By: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Cast: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Leon Ames A distracted professor invents an anti-gravity goo called Flubber that makes anything it's applied to lighter-than-air, including the family flivver and the balls at the school's basketball game. MacMurray couldn't be better in patented Disney fare. Sequel is Son of Flubber. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best (Black-and-White) Cinematography (though the film later was colorized). … more less -
Barefoot Executive, TheGenre: Comedies Release Date: 04/12/2005 Rating G Production Year: 1971 Run Time: 95 mins Released By: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Cast: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Harry Morgan, Wally Cox, Heather North A young man (Russell) working in the mailroom of a television network rises to the top of the company after he discovers that his girlfriend's chimp is capable of picking hit shows. But what happens when his monkey secret is discovered? A fun family movie from Disney. … more less -
North Avenue Irregulars, TheGenre: Comedies Release Date: 07/06/2004 Rating G Production Year: 1979 Run Time: 100 mins Released By: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Cast: Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris, Susan Clark, Karen Valentine, Michael Constantine Sometimes fighting crime takes community involvement, and the six church ladies in THE NORTH AVENUE IRREGULARS and their new minister (Edward Herrmann) aren't afraid to pitch in. When organized crime move into the neighborhood, these feisty amateur sleuths decide to fight back and round up the criminal element. … more less -
Beethoven's 3rdGenre: Comedies Release Date: 02/05/2013 Rating G Production Year: 2000 Run Time: 99 mins Released By: Universal Studios Home Video Cast: Judge Reinhold, Julia Sweeney, Jamie Marsh When Beethoven the Dog is around, hilarious antics always ensue! This time the Newton family takes Beethoven on a road trip, where they accidentally mix themselves up with a couple of DVD thieves. … more less -
Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.Genre: Comedies Release Date: 04/12/2005 Rating G Production Year: 1966 Run Time: 110 mins Released By: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Nancy Kwan, Akim Tamiroff, Arthur Malet, Tyler McVey A U.S. Navy pilot crash lands on a south sea island where he has a number of wacky adventures. A spirited Disney comedy based on the Robinson Crusoe legend. … more less -
Don't Drink the WaterGenre: Comedies Release Date: 03/18/2008 Rating G Production Year: 1969 Run Time: 100 mins Released By: Lions Gate Home Entertainment Cast: Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Joan Delaney, Ted Bessell While on vacation, a dim-witted American family becomes trapped in an iron curtain country. Based on the hit play by Woody Allen. … more less -
Where Angels Go, Trouble FollowsGenre: Comedies Release Date: 11/11/2003 Rating G Production Year: 1968 Run Time: 95 mins Released By: Sony Pictures Home Cast: Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes, Dolores Sutton Rosalind Russell reprises her role as the wry but wise mother superior challenged by her fun loving students. … more less -
Son of FlubberGenre: Comedies Release Date: 02/07/2006 Rating G Production Year: 1963 Cast: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Ed Wynn In this madcap sequel to Disney's THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR, Medfield College's most talented inventor Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) develops "Flubbergas" amidst a series of wacky adventures. In addition to broken windows and flying athletes, Brainard must contend with indoor rainstorms! The real challenge comes, however, when Brainard must save Medfield College from the nefarious land developer Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn). … more less
