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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Comedy, Drama, PG, Sports, True Story

Remember the Titans

It’s 1971, and racial tensions are high when a Virginia city’s high schools are forced to integrate. Successful black coach Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) is hired to lead the Titans,… Read More

Adventure, Comedy, Family, PG

The Borrowers

Beneath the floorboards of a cozy home lives the Clock family, tiny people who survive by “borrowing” small items from the humans living above. While sneaking out one night, the… Read More

Comedy, Drama, Family, PG

Snowmen

Here’s a lesser-known film that flew under the radar. Although rated PG, the film deals with mortality quite a bit, and involves finding a dead body in its opening scene,… Read More

Christmas, Classic, Comedy, Drama, Family, G, Musical, Romance

Meet Me in St. Louis

In 1903, the Smith family lives in St. Louis, where they eagerly await the 1904 World’s Fair planned for their hometown. Sisters Rose and Esther (Judy Garland) also dream about… Read More

Comedy, Family, PG

A Simple Wish

Eight-year-old Annabel (Mara Wilson) wishes for her father, a horse carriage driver in Central Park, to land the leading role in a new Broadway musical. To her surprise, her fairy… Read More

Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Family, PG

Hotel Transylvania 2

Several years after the events of the first film, Dracula’s daughter and her human husband are happily married with an adorable son named Dennis. As Dennis approaches his fifth birthday… Read More

Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Drama, PG

Inside Out 2

Two years after moving to San Francisco, thirteen-year-old Riley is entering high school, and her familiar emotions we met in the first film (Joy, Fear, Anger, Sadness, and Disgust) have… Read More

Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, G, Musical

The Muppets Take Manhattan

Fresh out of college, Kermit the Frog and his friends are convinced their musical revue “Manhattan Melodies” is destined for Broadway stardom. They optimistically head to New York City to… Read More

Adventure, Animated, Comedy, PG

Porco Rosso

Set in 1929 over the beautiful Adriatic Sea, ace pilot Marco has been transformed by a mysterious curse into a pig-headed bounty hunter known as Porco Rosso. Working alone in… Read More

Comedy, Drama, Family, G

Babe

When a mild-mannered farmer wins a piglet at a country fair, the little pig finds himself living on a farm where he doesn’t quite fit in with the other animals.… Read More

Classic, Comedy, Drama, G, Romance

Modern Times

During the Great Depression, Charlie Chaplin’s iconic Tramp character finds himself working on a factory assembly line, where the relentless pace of the machinery drives him to a nervous breakdown.… Read More

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