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Kids Pack - The BFG / Gulliver's Travels / Titanic / A Kid Called Danger / Home Team (DVD)
Family - Director: Brian Cosgrove, Peter R. Hunt, Eric Hendershot, Allan A. Godstein - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: David Jason, Amanda Root, Angela Thorne, Richard Harris, Catherine Schell, Norman Shelley, Clayton Taylor, Malc Melonas, Steve Guttenberg, Sophie Lorain, Ryan Slater more
A selection of five kids films on 3 discs. Contains: THE BFG; GULLIVER'S TRAVELS; TITANIC; A KID CALLED DANGER and HOME TEAM. See individual titles for more detail.
Production Year: 1980 - Family - Director: James Hill - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Jon Pertwee, Una Stubbs, Geoffrey Bayldon, Charlotte Coleman, Mike Berry, Jeremy Austin, Megs Jenkins, Norman Bird
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Production Year: 1979 - Family - Original Language: English - Classification: Exempt - Starring: Jon Pertwee, Geoffrey Bayldon, Una Stubbs, Mike Berry, Charlotte Coleman, Jeremy Austin, Megs Jenkins, Norman Bird
Plot: In 'The BFG' Little Sophie is taken from her bed one night - and that is the start of her adventure with The Big Friendly Giant. In 'Gulliver's Travels' a young doctor, the sole survivor of a shipwreck, is washed ashore in a country inhabited by miniature people. A mix of live action and animation which is based on the novel by Jonathan Swift. 'Titanic' tells of the adventures on board the Titanic with Geoffrey the cat, a family of mice, ducks, squirrels and two Dalmatians. In 'A Kid Called Danger' the thirteen year old son of a policeman is eager to prove that he has what it takes to be a detective and impress his father. In 'Home Team' Henry Butler, a former football hero, finds himself serving his community in a children's home. Desperate to find the kids something to do the administrator persuades him to coach the children in football.
DVD Description
A selection of five kids films on 3 discs. Contains: THE BFG; GULLIVER'S TRAVELS; TITANIC; A KID CALLED DANGER and HOME TEAM. See individual titles for more detail.
Advantages: Really good story, Inventive, Great for the whole family Disadvantages: This type of film has been done before
...Plot
The first scene shows a young mother putting her kids to bed. They want a bedtime story and the mother recalls the story of how she met her love. Little do the kids know she is actually telling a true story about her own life.
Gregorio and Ingrid are the two best secret agents in all the world. They have the ability to stop wars before they even begin. They work for different Countries, but are sent to destroy their worst enemy, each other. Rather than hate each other when they finally meet in an exotic corner of the world they fall in love with one another. Instead of destroying one another they raise a family and have children. Nine years later when they retire swapping espionage for being a parent Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez are called back to their original job as an espionage.
Suddenly their previous colleagues start...
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Advantages: Adventure, being small Disadvantages: None
...the path of Wayne?s two children Amy and Nick and the neighbourhood kids next door.
Then the adventure starts for the kids!! They find themselves in the backgarden which for their size is more like a huge field with danger at every turn. They have to fight off ants, scorpions and lawnmowers which they do spectacularly well. I think it actually looked like really good fun, apart from the danger part of course. All these things are huge and it must be like being Alice in Wonderland discovering a whole new world when you are that size. Of course they come across some exciting things too. They find a cookie in the back garden with cream filling and of course to them it is huge so they can eat away to their hearts content. I haven?t watched the film for a while but I do remember the computer graphics being quite good to depict all these unreal...
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Advantages: great action and entertainment Disadvantages: a little slow to begin
...Director: John G. Avildsen.
Producers: Jerry Weintraub, Bud S. Smith and R. J. Louis
Writer: Robert Mark Kamen
Stars: Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Elisabeht Shue, Martin Kove, Randee Heller and William Zabka.
This first in the karate kid sage was released in June 1984, involving the life of a school boy who had just moved into a new neighbourhood with his mother.
** BRIEF PLOT **
When Daniel LaRusso, (played by Ralph Macchio) and his mother Lucille, (played by Randee Heller) move into a new apartment in a small neighbourhood things seem to be going well, until Daniel starts at the local school.
When Daniel becomes friends with Ali Mills, (played by Elisabeth Shue) he soon realises that her ex-boyfriend, Johnny Lawrence, (played by William Zabka) and his little gang of Karate members are going to be trouble...
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very helpful 16.10.2008
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