Faith tag: Family

2011 hand-drawn Pooh: a missing tail, a honey pot, and a Hundred Acre Wood that has not learned to hurry. Short, kind, and almost silent by modern kids’-movie standards.

Disney’s original Pooh shorts stitched into one feature. Blustery days, heffalumps, and a narrator who can still be trusted with a child.

Pete’s Dragon is a 1977 American musical fantasy film directed by Don Chaffey, produced by Jerome Courtland and Ron Miller, and written by Malcolm Marmorstein. Based on the unpublished short story “Pete’s Dragon and the USA ” by Seton I. Miller and S. S. Field, it stars Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, and Shelley Winters.

Pete’s Dragon is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film directed by David Lowery, written by Lowery and Toby Halbrooks, and produced by James Whitaker. The film is a remake of Disney’s 1977 film of the same name, although the 2016 film is not a musical. The film stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, Oona Laurence, and Robert Redford. The film tells the story of an orphaned feral boy who befriends a dragon in the Pacific Northwest, and the ensuing repercussions of their discovery by the town’s residents.

A baby elephant with ears too big learns to fly. The 1941 original is brief and beautiful; it also carries period stereotypes a parent should name out loud.

Bambi is a 1942 American animated coming-of-age film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures, loosely based on Felix Salten’s 1923 novel Bambi, a Life in the Woods. It was directed by David D. Hand, and a team of six sequence directors.

Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animated musical romantic comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Film Distribution. Based on Ward Greene’s 1945 Cosmopolitan magazine story “Happy Dan, the Cynical Dog”, it was directed by Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, and Wilfred Jackson. The film features the voices of Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Bill Thompson, Bill Baucom, Stan Freberg, Verna Felton, Alan Reed, George Givot, Dallas McKennon, and Lee Millar. The film follows Lady, the pampered Cocker Spaniel, as she grows from puppy to adult, deals with changes in her family, and meets and falls in love with the homeless mutt Tramp.

Cruella wants a coat. Pongo, Perdita, and ninety-nine puppies make sure she does not get one. The 1961 animation is the one to start with — stylish, funny, and only as scary as a cartoon villainess.

The Jungle Book is an 1894 collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or “man-cub” Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. Most stories are set in a dry forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is “Seeonee” (Seoni), in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

Mowgli hears the jungle again. A lighter, shorter sequel to the 1967 film; some predator tension, a lot of bare-necessities reprise.