Review By JESSICA ALMY After watching “The Goonies” recently, my 9-year-old daughter has developed a taste for movies from my childhood. (Side note: did you know the actors who played Mikey and Mouth in “The Goonies” are now vegetarians?) So, on family movie night, we gave “Harry and the Hendersons” a whirl. I had forgotten that […]
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Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
January 10th, 2015 · 1 Comment · Movies
Tags: 1980s Childrens Movies·Depictions of Animals·Depictions of Meat in Film·Family Movies·Live Action Movies·Older Elementary·Vegetarian
Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (2010)
October 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Movies
Review By JESSICA ALMY Parents, get the tissues for this heartwarming (and heartbreaking) family flick! Based on the same true story as Lesléa Newman’s Hachiko Waits, this movie is about the faithfulness of a dog who accompanies the man he loves to the train station each day. His devotion is so strong that when the man dies, […]
Tags: Companion Animals·Death·Dogs·Early Elementary·Family Movies·Live Action Movies·Loss·Older Elementary
Babe (1995)
August 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Movies
Review By JESSICA ALMY I’d seen “Babe” years ago, at a time when I was neither a child nor a parent, so it was fun to revisit the movie with my 4-year-old daughter. What I’d forgotten, or perhaps hadn’t noticed, about the 1995 live-action flick when I’d seen it the first time was that it […]
Tags: 1990s Movies·Animals as Food·Early Elementary·Family Movies·Farmed Animals·Farming·Live Action Movies·Older Elementary·Parents·Pigs·Preschoolers