Family (Non-Animated, Uncollected), a list by Michael Mcdermott

8.5

/2129/

82

/225/

75

/63/

4.1

/5392/

The Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre brings Peter Pan Goes Wrong to BBC One. As part of its commitment to community theatre, the BBC has commissioned The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, an amateur dramatics group, to recreate the JM Barrie classic as part of their festive programming. But can they pull it off? Narrated by David Suchet and filmed in front of a live audience, watch as Peter Pan flies through the air, Captain Hook and his pirates set adrift in the lagoon, and Tinkerbell is due to light up the stage in a stunning electrical costume... what can possibly go wrong?! With their trademark comic mayhem, expect hilarious stunts, chaos, technical hitches, flying mishaps and cast disputes on the way to Neverland with hilarious and disastrous results.

77

75

8.1

/5308/

78

/364/

69

/109/

3.9

/11880/

81

/650/

age 3+

Fozzie Bear surprises his mother on Christmas Eve by bringing the entire Muppet gang to her farm to celebrate the holidays. Doc and his dog Sprocket, who had planned a quiet Christmas, end up joining the Muppets in their holiday activities and preparations. The Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock regulars join the festivities, but to Kermit's dismay, the only one missing is Miss Piggy, who has been caught in a snowstorm.

75

46

7.8

/2043/

72

/100/

72

/46/

4.0

/7639/

77

/5/

age 6+

Pee-wee Herman and pals are celebrating Christmas in the Playhouse in their own creative ways: Pee-wee makes a list for Santa Claus 1.5 miles long, teaches Little Richard how to ice skate, goes for a sleigh ride with Magic Johnson, enslaves Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello into making Christmas cards, receives a long phone call from Dinah Shore, even has more musical fun with k.d. lang, the Del Rubio Triplettes and Charo! Finally, Big Red arrives and announces that Pee-wee's Christmas list was so big, he didn't have enough presents for all the children of the world. Will Pee-wee follow his own advice and help others?

74

67

7.8

/5553/

75

/168/

69

/72/

3.5

/6512/

81

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.

71

52

7.7

/1696/

67

/85/

67

/40/

3.4

/2307/

76

/58/

age 4+

It's Christmas Eve and the playroom is alive with excitement for the new toys that will arrive the next day. Balthazar, the old and wise bear, explains to the other toys that they must welcome the newcomers even though each of them may be replaced as one of the children's new favorite toys.

72

7.7

/11709/

77

/315/

79

/339/

3.9

/20401/

50

/10/

84

/438/

2.5

Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an eventful summer.

76

7.7

/23024/

74

/304/

70

/210/

3.6

/3580/

82

/111/

90

/1823/

63

/31/

3.5

age 13+

Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. With the real HMS Accra arriving in only a fortnight, Lizzie must choose between telling Frankie the truth or finding the perfect stranger to play Frankie's father for just one day...

71

56

7.7

/2408/

78

/310/

64

/42/

3.3

/1037/

78

/9/

67

/22/

age 7+

"Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors" is based on the inspiring true story of living legend Dolly Parton's remarkable upbringing. This once-in-a-lifetime movie special takes place inside the tight-knit Parton family as they struggle to overcome devastating tragedy and discover the healing power of love, faith and a raggedy patchwork coat that helped make Parton who she is today. The film is set in the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains in 1955. It is neither a biopic nor a musical about Dolly's whole life and performing career, but rather a family-oriented faith-based story about the incidents in her and her family's life around the time she was nine years old.

81

56

7.6

/2365/

77

/134/

70

/53/

4.2

/17818/

94

/36/

88

/4/

In the 1990s, an immigrant single mother raises her teenage son in the Canadian suburbs, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind in South Korea.

75

55

7.6

/3021/

77

/177/

76

/65/

3.4

/1915/

82

/14/

Inspired by a true story, “Beyond the Blackboard” is about a 24-year-old first-time teacher who makes a difference in the lives of the homeless children she teaches in a shelter’s makeshift classroom. Set in 1987 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this movie tells the story a brand-new teacher and Mom who is given a tougher than expected teaching job and winds up teaching homeless children in a school that is housed in a room and called, literally, The School with No Name. She has some personal prejudicial hurdles to cross before she is able to be a true teacher for these children and of course there are hurdles like the lack of books and supplies.

82

7.6

/38770/

77

/1109/

76

/1020/

3.8

/61835/

97

/38/

88

/5530/

83

/19/

3.5

age 7+

When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth.

81

7.5

/45356/

73

/841/

70

/431/

3.7

/27310/

91

/156/

88

/2447/

80

/31/

4.0

age 10+

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

68

30

7.5

/1866/

72

/155/

67

/31/

3.2

/350/

64

/3/

With a duty to deliver every last letter before Christmas, the beloved quartet of post office detectives—Oliver, Shane, Rita and Norman—are working around the clock to redirect Santa’s mail just as Oliver runs into his former Sunday school teacher. When they receive an emotional last-minute plea not meant for Saint Nick, but instead written to God, they must delay their own travel plans to make sure one little girl doesn’t lose her Christmas joy—something Oliver and Shane are also struggling to find as they each face painful holiday memories. With a little guidance from a mysterious post office volunteer, Jordan, the Postables are more surprised than anyone to discover they've been a part of more than one miracle on this Christmas Eve.

75

72

7.5

/6111/

76

/302/

73

/312/

3.7

/7708/

80

/42/

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.

70

7.5

/65884/

78

/1729/

72

/805/

3.6

/31790/

60

/134/

84

/3395/

52

/33/

3.0

age 10+

The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.

82

79

7.4

/3199/

78

/361/

78

/80/

3.8

/11259/

100

/13/

96

/53/

73

/4/

age 10+

Melody Brooks, a sixth grader with cerebral palsy, has a quick wit and a sharp mind, but because she is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair, she is not given the same opportunities as her classmates. When a young educator notices her student's untapped potential and Melody starts to participate in mainstream education, Melody shows that what she has to say is more important than how she says it.

72

7.4

/8185/

75

/677/

78

/215/

3.5

/18000/

76

/49/

99

/301/

54

/14/

2.0

age 11+

After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.

79

44

74

/111/

73

/82/

100

/3/

Scorned girlfriends Carly and Tori hatch a plot against the boy that they are both dating.

69

36

7.4

/1670/

68

/64/

70

/37/

3.3

/814/

A developmentally challenged young man with a penchant for caring for animals in need sets out to convince his family - and their whole rural community - to participate in a local shelter's inaugural "Adopt a Dog for Christmas Program."

73

34

7.4

/3122/

68

/28/

69

/22/

3.4

/1249/

90

/5/

The film revolves around an eight-year old called Ryan Philip and his adventures with a magical pen called the Monkey Pen.

79

7.4

/10594/

70

/191/

67

/92/

3.7

/8023/

95

/43/

87

/382/

80

/21/

3.5

age 8+

Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.

67

50

7.4

/4499/

75

/307/

69

/115/

3.0

/1053/

60

/7/

While her life is falling apart, single mother Christine finds a magical family heirloom that leads to love and good fortune during Christmas.

73

7.4

/17554/

75

/418/

72

/279/

3.4

/14087/

80

/550/

Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth – the dashing one she once sent away – crashes back into her life, Anne must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart when it comes to second chances.

78

7.4

/22844/

73

/725/

70

/344/

3.6

/23279/

86

/139/

81

/2578/

72

/30/

4.0

age 8+

11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates' derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya. Thanks to the efforts of her teacher Dr. Larabee, she reaches the finals. As she gets to know her fellow competitors, Akeelah realizes that coming first isn't everything in life.

72

7.4

/25744/

74

/689/

72

/744/

3.6

/40702/

77

/31/

86

/1463/

52

/10/

age 10+

Ten-year-old Gabe is just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walks into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she reveals that she will not be going to public school any more. Gabe has a lot more to learn about life, love, and girls.

80

7.4

/56246/

74

/1333/

70

/566/

3.5

/43320/

92

/48/

88

/2280/

77

/13/

4.0

age 9+

Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to quit and focus on his long-neglected studies, Dale struggles to develop a winning team in the face of community criticism for his temper and his unconventional choice of assistant coach: Shooter, a notorious alcoholic.

76

7.4

/45917/

75

/2072/

74

/909/

3.6

/50336/

80

/130/

88

/1016/

60

/32/

3.5

age 10+

A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.

65

7.4

/114114/

75

/3270/

74

/2785/

3.3

/59976/

36

/121/

82

/20278/

38

/27/

3.0

age 8+

Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.

82

7.3

/36912/

72

/2058/

71

/473/

3.8

/283157/

99

/232/

94

/146/

84

/49/

3.5

age 11+

When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.

69

59

7.3

/3595/

64

/91/

67

/53/

3.0

/3641/

84

/238/

age 10+

Trudy Walker hated her life. She thought it was totally messed up until she found out about a contest that could change everything...

67

7.3

/102219/

74

/2647/

73

/2203/

3.2

/89817/

47

/135/

72

/8784/

51

/28/

3.5

age 15+

Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The parents' desperate decision raises both ethical and moral questions and rips away at the foundation of their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart, while revealing surprising truths that challenge everyone's perceptions of love and loyalty and give new meaning to the definition of healing.

76

75

7.3

/4207/

71

/470/

70

/107/

3.7

/39505/

96

/26/

75

/38/

John Mulaney and his kid pals tackle existential topics for all ages with catchy songs, comedy sketches and special guests in a nostalgic variety special.

68

7.3

/20043/

79

/1335/

75

/489/

3.2

/11914/

69

/32/

91

/1483/

30

/8/

age 10+

Growing up in Greenville, Texas, Bart Millard suffers physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his father, Arthur. When Arthur becomes terminally ill, he finds redemption by embracing his faith and rediscovering his love for his son. Years later, Bart's troubled childhood and mended relationship with his dad inspires him to write the hit song "I Can Only Imagine" as singer of the Christian band MercyMe.

72

35

7.3

/2082/

70

/34/

63

/25/

3.6

/702/

83

/21/

Escaping the dreary wet weather of 1930s England, an eccentric family uproot and ship themselves to the sunnier climes of the Greek island of Corfu.

72

51

7.3

/2576/

73

/54/

71

/29/

3.4

/957/

80

/5/

71

/98/

Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. John takes out an ad in a newspaper for a mail-order bride, to which the "plain and tall" Sarah Wheaton answers, soon traveling from Maine to Kansas to become John's wife. Despite the love that grows between Sarah and the family, Sarah finds herself homesick, and she must ultimately choose whether or not to stay.

75

64

7.3

/4908/

71

/85/

69

/112/

3.6

/3524/

92

/223/

War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.

78

7.3

/15768/

72

/267/

69

/210/

3.7

/7861/

96

/28/

82

/244/

86

/15/

3.0

age 12+

A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.

68

61

7.3

/5527/

73

/213/

64

/67/

3.1

/1695/

70

/44/

Five-time Emmy nominee and Golden Globe winner Henry Winkler stars in The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, the story of what happens when you open your heart to the power of Christmas. Disenchanted single mom Jennifer Cullen (Brooke Burns) is a Scroogette when it comes to anything Christmas. In fact, even her six-year-old son, Brian, is having trouble believing in Santa Claus. But when her Uncle Ralph (Henry Winkler) visits and brings a fellow passenger from his flight named Morgan Derby (Warren Christie), Jennifer s dubious heart awakens to the possibility that perhaps Christmas really does hold miracles. It s uplifting and laugh-packed and a story that will inspire the whole family to believe.

72

67

7.3

/7690/

72

/260/

67

/138/

3.2

/1954/

87

/812/

Nineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hoping to start a new life. But Clem unexpectedly dies, and Marty finds herself alone, two months pregnant. Widower Clark offers her a marriage of convenience: she needs food and money, and he needs someone to take care of his daughter Missie. She accepts his proposal as a temporary solution.

74

70

7.3

/5321/

74

/240/

61

/69/

3.5

/10430/

86

/7/

80

/444/

age 8+

Joseph, the favored son of Jacob, is betrayed by his jealous brothers, sold into slavery, and driven to Egypt. Though beset with adversity, Joseph perseveres through wit and faith and becomes the Governor of Egypt, second only to the Pharaoh.

63

7.3

/22679/

73

/675/

76

/481/

2.9

/6976/

32

/59/

84

/2559/

49

/16/

age 10+

When his wealthy grandfather finally dies, Jason Stevens fully expects to benefit when it comes to the reading of the will. But instead of a sizable inheritance, Jason receives a test, a series of tasks he must complete before he can get any money.

75

7.3

/20759/

74

/666/

73

/422/

3.5

/9959/

84

/37/

80

/446/

age 10+

The legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.

69

7.3

/9871/

79

/1329/

71

/110/

3.4

/10274/

75

/16/

85

/255/

35

/4/

age 12+

The incredible true story of the greatest walk-on in the history of college football.

72

7.3

/36534/

78

/3194/

78

/1519/

3.6

/27228/

77

/65/

77

/212/

54

/12/

age 11+

James Bowen, a homeless busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat.

76

7.2

/13277/

74

/929/

74

/350/

3.1

/16007/

88

/8/

86

/86/

age 8+

Chasing his dream to join an elite K-9 unit, a state trooper partners with a fellow underdog: clever but naughty shelter pup Ruby. Based on a true story.

66

53

7.2

/3565/

67

/73/

56

/62/

3.1

/1965/

74

/93/

The ghost of a girl who died in 1955 appears to a troubled teen living in her old house.

75

68

7.2

/4687/

71

/133/

67

/68/

3.3

/7285/

100

/7/

77

/148/

age 9+

Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.

80

7.2

/93299/

72

/4769/

70

/1704/

3.6

/145821/

95

/381/

92

/2619/

80

/50/