The Forbidden Kingdom 2008  PG-13, 113 min.
Genre: Action / Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Rob Minkoff
Cast: Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michael Angarano, Morgan Benoit, Bin Jiang, Shaohua Yang, Deshun Wang, Collin Chou, Yifei Liu, Xiao Dong Mei, Mathew Tang, Alan Ng
Jackie Chan and Jet Li take on dual roles in this first film in which they work together. The story is about nerdy, South Boston teenager Jason Tripitikas (Michael Angarano) who finds the Monkey King's (Jet Li) magic stick in a pawn shop owned by Old Hop (Jackie Chan) and is transported back in time to ancient China. In China, Jason is trained by martial artists Lu Yan (Jackie Chan) and Silent Monk (Jet Li) and then sets out with a band of warriors to free the Monkey King who has been imprisoned in stone by the evil Jade Warlord (Collin Chou).
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 The Haunted Mansion 2003  PG, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Rob Minkoff
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp, Nathaniel Parker, Marsha Thomason, Jennifer Tilly, Wallace Shawn, Dina Waters, Marc John Jefferies, Aree Davis, Jim Doughan, Rachael Harris, Steve Hytner
When Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) and his family check out a creepy mansion, they are trapped by a storm raging outside. It doesn't take long for the family to realize that the house is haunted and that they are in the middle of a crisis concerning the ghosts as well as themselves.
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 The Lion King 1994  G, 87 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Musical
Director: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Cast: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Moira Kelly, Niketa Calamed, Rowan Atkinson, Robert Guillaume, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin
This is Disney at its best, and this film is sure to become a classic. Simba is a lion cub driven away from his family, but he returns when grown to win his place on the African plains. The song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" won an Academy Award. The musical score also won an Oscar and two other songs ("Hakuna Matata" and "Circle of Life") were nominated. Songs are by Elton John and Tim Rice.
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 Stuart Little 1999 PG, 92 min.
Genre: Family / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy
Director: Rob Minkoff
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Julia Sweeney, Nathan Lane, Jennifer Tilly, Bruno Kirby, Estelle Getty, Dabney Coleman, Chazz Palminteri, Steve Zahn, David Alan Grier, Stan Freberg, Jeffrey Jones
Based on one of E.B. White's children's classics, this is the light-hearted adventure of a mouse, Stuart (voice of Michael J. Fox), that is adopted by the Little family of NYC. Stuart must overcome obstacles along the way that include his major nemesis, the family cat, Snowbell (voice of Nathan Lane).
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 Stuart Little 2 2002 PG, 76 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Rob Minkoff
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Anna Hoelck, Ashley Hoelck, Nathan Lane, Melanie Griffith, Steve Zahn, James Woods, Marc John Jefferies, Angelo Massagli, Brad Garrett, Jim Doughan
Stuart (voice of Michael J. Fox) and his now friend and cohort, Snowbell (voice of Nathan Lane), come to the rescue when bird-friend Margalo (voice of Melanie Griffith) vanishes from the Little's family home.
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| 1. The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
2. The Haunted Mansion (2003)
3. The Lion King (1994)
4. Stuart Little (1999)
5. Stuart Little 2 (2002)
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