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, Drama, PG, Romance

Summer Wars

In Japan, shy math genius Kenji takes an unexpected summer trip when his popular classmate Natsuki asks him to accompany her to her grandmother’s 90th birthday celebration in the countryside.… Read More

Adventure, Drama, Family, PG, Sports, True Story

True Spirit

“It’s when things go wrong that your true character is revealed.” Sixteen-year-old Jessica Watson has always dreamed of sailing around the world solo, inspired by the memoir of another young… Read More

Adventure, Drama, Family, PG, True Story

Andre

In the coastal town of Rockport, Maine in 1962, seven-year-old Toni Whitney and her family find themselves caring for an orphaned seal pup after local fishermen accidentally kill its mother.… Read More

Drama, PG, Sports, True Story

McFarland, USA

In 1987, high school football coach Jim White (Kevin Costner) moves his reluctant family to the predominantly Latino farming community of McFarland, California after being fired from his previous position.… Read More

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

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