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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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Drama
Adventure, Drama, Family, PG
Belle and Sebastian
This week’s film is French, but is dubbed on most streaming platforms. In the French Alps during World War II, a resourceful seven-year-old orphan named Sebastian lives with his adoptive… Read More
Animated, Comedy, Drama, PG-13
Robot Dreams
Despite its simple animated style, this week’s film is likely more appropriate for older viewers due its melancholy tone and emotional complexity. In 1980s New York City, a lonely dog… Read More
Comedy, Drama, Family, PG
Think Like a Dog
Middle schooler and science prodigy Oliver is upset when his mind-reading invention seems to fail during a science fair presentation. Trying to fix his invention later that night, he accidentally… Read More
Adventure, Drama, Family, PG, Thriller
City of Ember
Twelve-year old Lina Mayfleet lives in the underground city of Ember, which for the past two hundred years has been humanity’s last refuge, protecting them from an unnamed catastrophe that… Read More
Drama, Family, PG, Sports, True Story
You Gotta Believe
In Fort Worth, Texas, best friends Bobby (Luke Wilson) and Jon (Greg Kinnear) coach their sons’ struggling Little League team, a group of disinterested players just waiting for the season… Read More
Classic, Drama, Family, G, Musical, Romance
The Sound of Music
This week’s film is an iconic classic celebrating its 60th anniversary this month. In pre-World War II Austria, a free-spirited young woman named Maria (Julie Andrews) leaves her abbey as… Read More
Comedy, Drama, Family, PG
Because of Winn-Dixie
Ten-year-old Opal has just moved to a small Florida town with her father. Lonely and missing her mother who abandoned them years earlier, Opal’s life changes when she adopts a… Read More
Drama, Family, PG, True Story
Miracles from Heaven
Ten-year-old Anna Beam lives a happy life in Texas with her parents and two sisters, regularly participating in church activities with her family. But their world is turned upside down… Read More
Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Drama, Family, PG
The Little Prince
A highly structured little girl finds her life turned upside down when she meets her eccentric elderly neighbor, a retired Aviator who shares with her the story of his encounter… Read More
Classic, Drama, Family, G
Sounder
In rural Louisiana during the Great Depression, David Lee Morgan is the oldest son of a family of poor sharecroppers. His father, desperate to feed his hungry children, steals food… Read More
Adventure, Drama, Family, PG
White Fang
In the midst of the Alaskan gold rush, young Jack Conroy (Ethan Hawke) arrives in the Yukon Territory to claim his late father’s mining plot. Inexperienced in the harsh realities… Read More
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