Three Kids Movies - Three Irish Actors
So you’re sitting around the table wondering what’s good to show your kids over the holiday. You assure me that your kids aren’t brats and haven’t seen every movie ever released.
Here’s three films I’ve seen in the last year that I recommend highly for family viewing.
Go get yourself a family if you don’t have your own.
1. Millions A gorgeous splash of colour and imagination from 2005, as two young brothers cope with a fortune in expiry-dated cash dropped from the skies. Touching, funny, and surprising, but never sickly.
Irish actor: James Nesbitt plays the boys’ widowed father. Nesbitt was the man some of you know as the man who used fruity soaps in Waking Ned Devine
2. Mirror Mask From the world of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean in 2005 came a Wizard of Oz for our times, though a tougher viewing as if it were a darker Alice in Wonderland. Inventive, the way graphic novels are, but cuddly, the way Labyrinth was.
Irish actor: Dublin’s Jason Barry plays the companion to the lead actress, and memorably, he doesn’t want to be a waiter.
3. The Secret Garden Okay so it was made in 1993, but I was distracted for a while there. Bleakly beautiful, the best rendering of a classic children’s tale seems harrowing at first but just grows and grows like the big fat smile on your face by the end.
Irish actor: John Lynch plays Lord Craven, uncle of the film’s spoiled heroine, and owner of the inhumanly enormous manor that houses them and his invalid son.
Stick those DVDs on your NetFlix list and smoke them.
See also:
• Pirates: Dead Man’s Ren Fest
• Sam Neill, a Big Fish
• Review: “What Means Motley?”
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I’d also add Secret of Roan Innish. Lovely film about a supposed legend (don’t know if it’s a real legend or made up for the film, but I don’t think it matters in this case). My daughters and their friends loved it and my husband and I enjoyed it. So a nice family film.
That’s interesting Irish Mama as I stupidly hadn’t thought of The Secret of Roan Inish as a family film. Probably because I have loved so much of John Sayles’ work, when he made this - and I saw it first at the Dublin Film Festival where it received an ovation - I struggled with it precisely because of the mythical aspects that rather challenged credibility for adults but were perfect for kids. I’ve even watched it with kids since.
So looking at it in that light I’d definitely have to concur with you.
Thanks for that.