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A family film is a film genre that, like a children's film, is suitable for young children, but with the difference that a family film has been carefully written, directed, cast and acted so that it will appeal to all members of a typical family (or if not typical, at least representing the cultural ideal): Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Even in the early days of film history, the audience appetite for new content was voracious. ... A childrens film is a film for young children. ...

• Father
• Mother
• Teens
• Small children

To meet these contradictory requirements, producers sometimes look for scripts whose plots depict problems that all these types of people might identify with.

An example is Beethoven (1992). Beethoven (1992) is a movie about a St. ...

• It has a big cute dog named Beethoven who is responsible for slapstick comedy on the father and mother. The dog gets in trouble that is simple enough for the smallest child to understand.
• The father has business problems, briefly but thoroughly developed, with silly side-lights to keep the children from being bored.
• The teens love the dog and resent the unfeeling father.
• The mother has relationship problems: The father hates the dog, the children want the dog and feel unloved, the mother has to make peace, keep the house clean, the kids fed, the husband loved, and remain lovable.
• The problem is resolved when the father accepts the dog, and rescues him from evil mad scientists, with the help of the family.
• Thus, the dog stays happy, Father remains king of the hill (very satisfying for both adults and children), and the relationships are healed, solving the mother's problems.

Family films generally do not contain content that would be deemed unsuitable for children. In the United States, such films are usually conceived so as to guarantee nothing greater than a G or PG rating. Note that this rating does not distinguish between children's films and family films. The MPAA film rating system is a system used in the United States and territories and instituted by the Motion Picture Association of America to rate a movie based on its content. ... A childrens film is a film for young children. ...

Some examples of family films include:

• Babe
• Beethoven
• The Borrowers
• Fly Away Home
• Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
• Just Like the Son
• The Muppet films
• The Secret of NIMH
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and all subsequent animated feature films by Disney (primarily those films produced in the 30's and early 40's as well as those produced in the late 80's and throughout the 90's are considered to be as enjoyable to adults as they are to children).
• Love and Kisses
• The Story of the Weeping Camel

Babe is an Academy Award-winning 1995 Australian film that tells the story of a pig who wants to be a sheep dog. ... Beethoven (1992) is a movie about a St. ... The Borrowers (book cover) The Borrowers is a novel by Mary Norton about tiny people who borrow things from normal humans and keep their existence unknown. ... Fly Away Home is a 1996 movie about the daughter (Anna Paquin) of a divorced man (Jeff Daniels) who, with her father, leads a flock of geese from Canada to a wildlife refuge in the US. External links Official site Fly Away Home at the Internet Movie Database Categories: 1996... This article contains a trivia section. ... Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) is the sequel to the film Home Alone. ... John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together The Muppets are a group of puppets and costume characters created by Jim Henson and the company he created. ... The Secret of NIMH is a 1982 animated film adaptation of the Newbery Medal-winning book Mrs. ... Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 animated feature, the first produced by Walt Disney. ... Love and Kisses (1965) is a U.S. comedy film starring Ricky Nelson as a young man called Buzzy Pringle who tries to grow up and emancipate himself from his middle-class parents by getting married. ... The Story of the Weeping Camel film poster The Story of the Weeping Camel is a 2003 Mongolian documentary produced by ThinkFilm. ...

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