Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), Home Before Dark (1997), The Bushbaby (1970), Family Tree (2000), The Borrowers (1997), The War With Grandpa (2020), Crazy Like a Fox (2004), Home Alone 3 (1997) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Family Adventure movies.
Storyline: "Cheaper By the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families. Frank Gilbreth, Sr., was a pioneer in the field of motion study, and often used his family as guinea pigs (with amusing and sometimes embarrassing results). He resisted popular culture,railing against his daughters' desires for bobbed hair and cosmetics.—Becki Bozart <beckeye@aone.com>
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, classic, parenting, children, american, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's 1963 in rural Massachusetts, and Nora James has the usual worries of an eleven year-old girl:lipstick, first crushes, staying out of trouble at school...not easy when your teacher is the elderly Sister Concilia. And even harder when your parents are struggling to heal from an almost unbearable loss. Then tragedy strikes another Massachusetts family, the Kennedys, and shatters the fragile bonds holding the James family together, Nora, sent to live with her brittle Aunt Rose, soon learns who she is, what she wants, and what she must do to achieve it. She makes a decision that is both cruel and courageous. Nora's choice unlocks the way to what amounts to the rescue of her family.—Maureen Foley, writer/director of the film
Plot Keywords: family, drama, children, coming of age, adventure, friendship, rural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The young daughter of a park ranger in Kenya is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England, thus separating her from the one thing she loves most, a pet Bushbaby. Fearing what the future holds, she decides to set the pet free, but while doing so misses the boat back to England. After meeting up with a friendly native, they try to resolve the situation together. Things take a turn for the worse when it is falsely reported that the native has kidnapped her, thus putting a price on his head.—Kevin Steinhauer <K.Steinhauer@BoM.GOV.AU>
Plot Keywords: adventure, family, animal, africa, wildlife, friendship, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A lonely young boy, overshadowed by his older brother, picked on by other boys at school and ignored by his businessman father, finds strength and companionship from a stately old oak tree. When his father, a real-estate developer, plans to demolish the old tree in order to make way for a factory, the boy decides to stand up for his friend and stand up to his father.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, growing up, american movie, 2000s, indie film, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Borrowers are four-inch high "little people" who live under the floorboards. When the owner of the house they live in dies and her evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter wants to destroy the house to build luxury apartments in its place, they start to fight him with the help of the son of house owner, Pete.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, family, adventure, comedy, children, novel adaptation, british ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Peter is thrilled that Grandpa is coming to live with his family. That is, until Grandpa moves into Peter's room, forcing him upstairs into the creepy attic. And though he loves his grandpa he wants his room back - so he has no choice but to declare war. With the help of his friends, Peter devises outrageous plans to make Grandpa surrender the room. But Grandpa is tougher than he looks. Rather than give in, Grandpa plans to get even.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, drama, american film, 2020 film, family conflict, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of land speculators from Washington, D.C. When the predatory couple manipulates a "legal" real estate transaction that turns into a hostile possession of the manor house, he temporarily loses his mind, leaving his family but not the farm. Instead he hides out in a cave on Goose Creek, waging guerilla warfare against expansionism and the destruction of historic property with the help of his family, friends, and neighbors...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, adventure, animals, dog, friendship, loyalty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four high-tech industrial spies, Beaupre, Alice, Jernigan and Unger, steal a top-secret microchip, and, to fool customs, hide it in a remote-control toy car. Through a baggage mix-up at the airport, grumpy old Mrs.Hess gets the toy and gives it to her neighbor, 8-year-old Alex. Spies want to get the toy back before their clients get angry and decide to burglarize every house at Alex's street to find the chip. But Alex is prepared for their visit...
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, christmas, children, adventure, crime, action ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the Stupids, an average suburban American family, discover that their garbage was "stolen" out of the can, they begin the investigation of that "conspiracy".—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, humor, stupidity, absurd, parody, slapstick ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Janet Beindorf (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her husband, Ned (Kevin Pollak), announce their separation, their two kids decide to lock them in the basement of their home until they sort things out. Soon other parents are getting the same treatment from their children, including the divorce-happy Vic Finley (Wallace Shawn), with all the adults confined to the Beindorfs' basement along with Janet and Ned. Unable to escape their prison, will the parents finally make some changes in their lives?
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, american movie, 1990s, children, teen, coming of age ...
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