Top Family Movies


The Top Family Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Family List". Lists are calculated daily.

101. Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Year of Release: 1928
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Charles Reisner
Actors: Tom McGuire, Buster Keaton, Tom Lewis, Marion Byron
Plot: A sailor meets his son for the first time... and he turns out to be a huge disappointment.

102. Iron Will

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Charles Haid
Actors: Mackenzie Astin, Kevin Spacey, David Ogden Stiers, August Schellenberg
Plot: Will Stoneman, a seventeen year old farmer, often mushes into town for deliveries. In order to save his family from financial ruin, Will decides to enter a dog sled race. His mother wants Will to use part of the prospective $10,000 race winnings for college, but Will just wants to save the farm.

103. Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino
Actors: Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett
Plot: Horton Hears a Who is based on the 1954 book by Ted Geisel, who wrote under the pen name Dr. Seuss. It is about an elephant who hears voices on a tiny spec of dust. Thinking that their is life in the spec he tries to help, but all of those around him think he has lost his mind.

104. Nanny McPhee

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Kirk Jones
Actors: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly Macdonald, Thomas Sangster
Plot: A widower has seven children to take care of - seven ill-mannered, misbehaving children who have driven the last 17 nannies away. When a voice tells him to find Nanny McPhee, he heeds it and soon the new nanny arrives and her appearance, not to mention magic, soon change their lives.

105. Fly Away Home

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Carroll Ballard
Actors: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney
Plot: A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.

106. The Absent Minded Professor

Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Robert Stevenson
Actors: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk
Plot: Professor Brainard, an inventive but forgetful college instructor uses Flubber -- a chemical that "lifts" anyone who ingests it -- to perform many wonders.

107. Frosty the Snowman

Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Jules Bass
Actors: Jimmy Durante, Billy De Wolfe, Jackie Vernon, Paul Frees
Plot: A discarded top hat holds magic that brings a snowman to life. Now a young girl realizes that in order for Frosty to survive, he will have to be moved to a colder climate before spring. As they head to the North Pole, a greedy magician gives chase, hoping to get his magic hat back.

108. Oliver & Company

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: George Scribner
Actors: Joseph Lawrence, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Richard Mulligan
Plot: An orphan kitten befriends a group of stray dogs.

109. Pollyanna

Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: David Swift
Actors: Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Karl Malden, Adolphe Menjou

110. Mickey's Christmas Carol

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Burny Mattinson
Actors: Alan Young, Wayne Allwine, Hal Smith, Will Ryan
Plot: The classic Disney animated characters play the roles in this animated retelling of the Charles Dickens masterpiece.

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