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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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PG
Adventure, Animated, Drama, PG, Sports
The Summit of the Gods
In 1924, two mountaineers, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, set out to be the first climbers to reach the top of Mount Everest. They never returned, leaving history to wonder… Read More
Adventure, Animated, Comedy, PG
Ernest & Celestine
Celestine is a young orphan mouse living underground, where she’s taught to fear the evil bears that live in the world above. One day, while out on an errand, she… Read More
Comedy, Drama, Family, PG, Sports
The Mighty Ducks
This week’s film is a comedic sports drama from the 90s. Gordon Bombay is a successful but arrogant attorney, but his career is put on ice when he’s arrested for… Read More
Drama, PG, True Story
The Rosa Parks Story
Growing up in the racially segregated Alabama, the young Rosa McCauley does not take for granted that she or her family and friends are somehow inferior to others; she knows… Read More
Drama, PG, Romance, True Story
Big Miracle
It’s the late 80s when Alaskan news reporter Adam Carlson happens to spot a trio of gray whales trapped by pack ice in the Arctic Circle. With temperatures dropping, it… Read More
Christmas, Classic, Comedy, Drama, PG, Romance
Remember the Night
Here’s one last Christmas classic as Christmastide comes to an end. Prosecutor Jack Sargent (Fred MacMurray) knows he’ll get a guilty verdict for a woman on trial for shoplifting, but,… Read More
Adventure, Christmas, Comedy, Family, PG
Dashing Through the Snow
This week’s Christmas film is a recent release. After a bad childhood experience, Eddie is not a fan of the Christmas season. So when he helps a man dressed as… Read More
Adventure, Christmas, Comedy, Family, PG
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
In this sequel to the Christmas classic Home Alone, the young Kevin McCallister once more finds himself separated from his family when he accidentally gets on the wrong plane at… Read More
Adventure, Comedy, Family, PG
Paddington
When a young orphaned talking bear from Peru arrives at Paddington Station, London in search of a new home, the Brown family offers him a place to stay, naming him… Read More
Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Family, PG
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
This week’s film is the zany sequel to the food-filled animated comedy we recommended two years ago, this time featuring sentient food creatures called “foodimals”. Picking up where the original… Read More
Classic, Drama, PG
12 Angry Men
When a group of twelve jurors retreat to the jury room to deliberate the case of a young man accused of murdering his father, all the jurors but one are… Read More
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