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Family Movie Nights

To help families spend time together and share common experiences, the Institute provides recommendations for Family Movie Night. Each week, a new movie recommendation and explanation is available for your consideration. Enjoy the show!

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Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Family, PG
Despicable Me 2
Former super-villain Gru has traded his life of crime for domestic life and fatherhood, trying his best to raise his three adopted daughters. But he’s thrust back into the world… Read More
Classic, Drama, PG, True Story
The Miracle Worker
After a severe illness at the age of one leaves her both blind and deaf, Helen Keller grows up unable to communicate and is easily frustrated. Having become a wild… Read More
Drama, Family, PG
Three Wishes
In a quiet 1950s American suburb, Jeanne Holman is doing her best to hold her family together after her husband is presumed dead in the Korean War. When she accidentally… Read More
Adventure, Drama, Family, PG
Swallows and Amazons
It’s 1935, and the four Walker children are thrilled when their mother gives them permission to set out on a little adventure and sail their small boat to a tiny… Read More
Adventure, Drama, PG-13, Sports, True Story
Arthur the King
Due to strong language and some intense drama, this week’s film is more appropriate for older viewers. Michael Light (Mark Wahlberg) is an experienced racer longing to finally win a… Read More
Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Family, PG
Mr. Peabody and Sherman
Mr. Peabody is a genius dog, and inventor of a time machine called the WABAC (pronounced “way-back”), which he uses to give his adopted human son Sherman genuine historic experiences,… Read More
Drama, PG
August Rush
Here’s a film appropriately titled for the beginning of August… Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore) is a young orphan who hears music in the sounds all around him, from the wind… Read More
Drama, Family, PG, Sports
Field of Dreams
Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) is an Iowa farmer who, walking through his cornfields one evening, hears a mysterious voice whispering, “If you build it, he will come.” Despite the strangeness… Read More
Drama, Family, PG
Shiloh
When eleven year old Marty discovers a young runaway beagle that has clearly been mistreated by its owner, he quickly falls in love with the dog, whom he names Shiloh,… Read More
Adventure, Drama, PG
Wonderstruck
It’s 1977, and the young boy Ben knows nothing about his father. After his mother dies and an accident renders him deaf, he runs away from home in search of… Read More
Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Family, PG
Home
When an alien race invades Earth, they relocate all the humans to make room for themselves. Excited to have a new home, one clumsy but well-meaning alien named Oh accidentally… Read More
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