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!

If you are looking to see where a particular movie is streaming or is available online, please visit https://www.justwatch.com

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

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

Adventure, Animated, PG

Kensuke’s Kingdom

Young Michael isn’t enjoying his family’s new life on the sea, sailing the world. He’d rather be back home with his dog, whom he secretly stowed away onboard. He manages… Read More

Adventure, Comedy, Family, PG

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis) is a quirky inventor whose latest creation is a shrinking machine that no one believes will work, not even his family. But when his teenage daughter,… 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

Drama, PG, True Story

One Life

In 1938, young British stockbroker Nicholas Winton travels to Prague where he encounters Jewish refugee families who have fled Nazi persecution in Germany and Austria. Moved by their desperate situation… Read More

Adventure, Animated, Christmas, Comedy, Drama, Family, PG

A Christmas Carol

Here’s a classic Christmas tale to bring Advent to a close. Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday story comes to life in Robert Zemeckis’s 2009 animated adaptation, with Jim Carrey taking on… Read More

Adventure, Christmas, Comedy, Family, PG

The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two

Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn return as Santa and Mrs. Claus in this sequel to The Christmas Chronicles. Two years after her first magical Christmas adventure, 13-year-old Kate Pierce is… Read More

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