Movies I’m thankful for

During my time in the USA I learned to love Thanksgiving day, for me this holiday became the day of getting some great food, decorating the Christmas tree, spend four days with people who love me and of course going to watch some long waited movies. To celebrate Thanksgiving day this year I decide to write the list of movies I’m thankful for.

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X-mas’ movies.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

with the kids jingle belling

And everyone telling you “Be of good cheer””

it’s the most wonderful time of the year

it’s the hap-happiest season of all.

I really love Christmas, for me this holidays has always been a happy time.  A time where I always has been surrounded for people I love and people who love me.  One of the things always present in our Christmas celebration are movies, we have the habit of watch Christmas movies all day long as we eat left over. So in order to honor this holiday I decide to create a list with  my favorites.

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100 children movies

Finally I finish my first list, the best 100 children movies. If you miss any number or just want to re read any of them here it is the final review.

100. It’s a wonderful life

99. Monster inc

98. Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory

97.  The Iron Giant

96. To Kill a Mockingbird

95.  A little princess

94. Roman Holiday

93. Field of Dreams

92. Edward Scissor Hands

91. How to Train your Dragon

90. Back to the Future

89. Big

88. Who framed Roger Rabbit

87. Cars

86.  A League of their Own

85.  Fantasia

84. Nightmare Before Christmas

83. Fiddler on the roof

82. Kung Fu Panda

81. The Princess Bride

80. Modern Times

79.  Ferris Buller’s day off

78. My Fair Lady

77.  Flight of the Navigator

76. Batteries not Included

75. Miracle on 34th Street

74. Peter Pan

73. The Secret Garden

72. Spirit Away

71. West Side Story

70. Little Woman

69. Honey, I shrunk the kids

68. Grease

67. Stand by Me

66. Wallace and Gromit and the curse of the wererabbit

65. The Lion King

64. The 5000 fingers of Dr. T

63. Singing in the Rain

62. Some Like it hot

61. Yellow Submarine

60. Rocky

59. Lord of the Rings

58. Young Frankestein

57. Shaggy Dog

56. Karate Kid

55. Labyrinth

54. A bug’s life

53. The King and I

52. Little Mermaid

51. The Dark Crystal

50. Riders of the Lost Ark

49. Fantastic Mr. Fox

48. Robin Hood

47. Alice in Wonderland

46. Never ending Story

45. A Hard’s Day Night

44. The incredibles

43. Jason and the Argonauts

42. Freaky Friday

41. Parent Trap

40. Goonies

39. Night at the museum

38. The Last unicorn

37. Muppets from space

36. Enchanted

35. Belleville Rendez-vous

34. Monster House

33. Horton Hears a Who?

32. The emperors new groove

31. My neighbor Totoro

30.  Tangled

29. Close encounters of the third kind

28. Zathura

27. The Muppets take Manhattan

26. The black Cauldron

25. Finding Nemo

24. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

23. Bedknobs and bromsticks

22. Gremlins

21. Pixar’s shorts

20. 101 Dalmatians

19. Song of the South

18. An american Tail

17. How the Grinch stole the Christmas

16. The Sword in the stone

15. The rescuers

14. Tale of desperaux

13. Up

12. Home Alone & Home Alone 2

11. Wall-e

10. Harry Potter

9. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 

8. The  Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

7. Mary Poppins

6. Beauty and the Beast

5. Casablanca

4. Toy Story 1,2, and 3

3. The Sound of Music

2. The Wizard of oz

1. Star Wars (original trilogy)

8. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Poooh

DIRECTED BY WOLFGANG REITHERMAN & JONH LOUNSBERY

WRITTEN BY LARRY CLEMMONS, RALPH WRIGHT, VANCE GERRY, XAVIER ATENCIO, KEN ANDERSON, JULIUS SVENDSEN, TED BERMAN, ERIC CLEWORTH & WINSTON HIBLER

STARRING: SEBASTIAN CABOT, STERLING HOLLOWAY, JOHN FIEDLER, JUNIUS MATTHEWS,  PAUL WINCHELL, HOWARD MORRIS & BRUCE REITHERMAN.

RELEASE DATE: MARCH 11, 1977

AGE RECOMMENDED: ALL

This post is very important for me, I grew up with Winnie the Pooh to the point I have a collection of Eeyore donkeys. Winnie the pooh is the a coming to age movie for the first part of our lives. The movie, this one and all of them that follow it and all the tv shows, are based in the book of A.A. Milne.

The books and the film have several differences but the films, and specially the insertion of the character of  Gopher, who does not exist appear in the books, or in the book Winnie only wear his shirt in winter. Disney decide to create first this movie as a little featurettes, releases in 1966, 1968 and 1974, so the american public became familiar with the story which was quite popular in England but quite unknown in the US. In 1977 the studio decide to re-release the original featurettes (Winnie the Pooh and the honeey tree , Winnie the Pooh and the blustery Day and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too) as a full length movie.

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