Family Movie Nights

To help families spend time together and share common experiences, The Leadership 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, Comedy, Drama, Family, G

Candleshoe

Teenager Casey is a foster child, a loner, and a bit of a delinquent, enjoying causing trouble in the city streets of LA. She’s given the chance to make a… Read More

Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Family, PG

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Here’s a recently released animated film about the world’s most famous plumbers. The Mario brothers are having a tough time with their new plumbing business. While trying to fix a… Read More

Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, PG

Tom and Huck

Tom Sawyer enjoys skipping school and sneaking out late at night, especially with his friend Huck Finn. One night, the two boys witness a murder, and, fearing for their own… Read More

Adventure, PG-13

Bumblebee

Don’t worry if you’re unfamiliar with the Transformers franchise; this week’s film is a standalone prequel, accessible to all. It’s 1987, and teenage Charlie is grieving her father’s death, while… Read More

Adventure, Family, PG

Shipwrecked

When his injured father is no longer able to sail, 14-year-old Haakon sets sail himself as a cabin boy, hoping to earn enough money to save the family farm. He… Read More

Adventure, Drama, Family, PG

Crater

It’s hundreds of years in the future, and Caleb and his friends live on the moon, their parents working as miners. When Caleb’s father dies, his will stipulates that Caleb… Read More

Adventure, Animated, Drama, Family, G, Musical

Anastasia

This week’s film is a popular animated adventure from the 90s. Orphaned as a child, the young adult Anya remembers very little of her early childhood, and wants to find… Read More

Adventure, Comedy, Family, PG

Hoot

Teenager Roy doesn’t know anyone in town after he and his family move to Florida. But he soon becomes curious about another local boy he sees running around barefoot, wondering… Read More

Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, PG

Holes

When teenager Stanley is wrongly accused of stealing, perhaps due to bad luck from an old family curse, he’s sent to a juvenile work camp. It’s a strange camp, where… Read More

Adventure, Drama, Family, PG

Chupa

Still mourning the death of his father, 13-year-old Alex reluctantly travels to Mexico to meet his paternal grandfather and cousins. While the new environment takes some getting used to, the… Read More

Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Family, G

WALL·E

Just in time for Earth Day, here’s a modern classic from Pixar. Hundreds of years in the future, mankind has turned the surface of the planet into a giant garbage… Read More

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