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FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Animation Adventure Comedy -

Actors: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray

An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.

Over the Hedge
(2006, USA)

Animation | Adventure | Comedy

A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating...and learns a lesson about family himself.

Stars: Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell

Stuart Little is a 1999 American family comedy film directed by Rob Minkoff. It is loosely based on the novel Stuart Little by E. B. White. It combines live-action and computer animation.

Eleanor Little and Frederick Little and their young son George are intending an adoption. While George is at school, his parents go to an orphanage where they meet and fall in love with a humanoid mouse named Stuart . Despite misgivings from Mrs. Keeper , they adopt Stuart and take him home. However, Stuart is greeted coldly by George, who refuses to acknowledge the mouse as his brother, and the family cat Snowbell , who is disgusted at having a mouse for a "master". Despite Eleanor and Frederick's intentions, Stuart quickly feels like an outsider in the large Little family, especially when the family's unknowing relatives bring Stuart large presents and George snaps at his family, claiming out loud that Stuart is not his brother. When Stuart admits his feelings of loneliness to his parents, they ask Mrs. Keeper to do some background research on Stuart's biological family.

source: Wikipedia

trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPJ6DBYcFbE

keywords: family, mouse, friendship

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Stuart Little 2 is a 2002 American live action and CGI animated film, directed by Rob Minkoff. The film is a sequel to the 1999 film and includes characters from the children's book by E. B. White such as Margalo. The movie was released to theaters on July 19, 2002.
Three years after the first film, Stuart Little questions his ability after a grueling soccer match alongside George, who kicked him with a soccer ball. He becomes even more downhearted after George's toy airplane gets broken in an accident because of him. However, Stuart's father, Frederick Little, tells him that for every Little, there is a "silver lining", a good thing that comes out of an apparently bad situation.

source: Wikipedia

trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvdNtZ5zPTs

keywords: family, mouse, friendship, adventure

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The Horse Whisperer is a 1998 American drama film directed by and starring Robert Redford, based on the 1995 novel The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans.

A talented trainer with a remarkable gift for understanding horses is hired to help an injured teenager and her horse back to health following a tragic accident.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD63jirHcMw - TRAILER


SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA
Keywords: horses, horse training methods, kid and animal, animal tamer,

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HAPPY FEET (2006)

108 min - Animation | Comedy | Family - 17 November 2006 (USA)

Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!

Trailer at

The Adventures of Milo and Otis is a Japanese film about two animals, the titular characters, Milo (an orange tabby cat) and Otis (a fawn pug). The original Japanese version was released on June 27, 1986, and the reworked English version was released on August 25, 1989.

After an acrimonious break up, the Mystery Inc. gang are individually brought to an island resort to investigate strange goings on.

lvin and the Chipmunks is a 2007 American comedy film directed by Tim Hill. Based on the characters of the same name created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., the film stars Jason Lee, David Cross and Cameron Richardson with the voices of Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney. It was distributed by Twentieth Century Fox and produced by Fox 2000 Pictures, Regency Enterprises and Bagdasarian Company.

All Dogs Go to Heaven is a 1989 American animated musical fantasy comedy-drama film directed and produced by Don Bluth and released by United Artists & Goldcrest Films. The film tells the story of two dogs, Charlie B. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds) and his loyal best friend Itchy Itchiford (voiced by Dom DeLuise). Charlie is murdered, but he forsakes his place in Heaven to return to earth where he and Itchy team up with a young orphan girl, Anne-Marie (voiced by Judith Barsi in her final role) who teaches them an important lesson about honesty, loyalty, and love.