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(A+) Casablanca

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MPAA Rating: Audience: 4th - 6th Grades

Plot: Rick (Humphrey Bogart) owns a popular nightclub in Casablanca, in the early days of WWII. France is under the control of the Vichy government, which has close ties to the Nazis, but Casablanc...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(A+) A Christmas Story

Genre: Stories About Kids
MPAA Rating: PG Audience: Middle School

There's no better way to start off the Christmas season than this holiday classic, now celebrating its 25th anniversary and so popular that Turner Classic Movies runs it for 24 hours each year. Mi...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(A+) Cinderella

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MPAA Rating: Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade

The classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault is lovingly and imaginatively brought to life in this animated Disney version, also a classic. Cinderella, a sweet, docile, and beautiful girl forced to a...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(A+) Citizen Kane

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MPAA Rating: Audience: 4th - 6th Grades

Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) dies, alone in Xanadu, his enormous mansion. His last word is the mysterious "Rosebud." A newsreel gives us the highlights of his life, the wealthy young m...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(A+) Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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MPAA Rating: Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade

Plot: When Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) and Jillian Guiler (Melinda Dillon) "encounter" a UFO, they travel to its landing site, Devil's Tower, Wyoming. Jillian is seeking her son, who disappeared w...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(A+) The Court Jester

Genre: Romance
MPAA Rating: R Audience: Kindergarten - 3rd Grade

“Life could not better be” than the pure cinematic joy of this movie from the first frame to the last. Danny Kaye has his best role as Hawkins, a follower of the Black Fox, a Robin Hood- styl...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

(A+) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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MPAA Rating: Audience: Middle School

This is a ravishing fairy tale/epic, and the best movie of the year.

It is passionately romantic -- the story of two sets of star-crossed lovers who face enormous obstacles, within themselve...

» Read Review Posted on Friday December 13, 2002

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