All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 1996  G, 84 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Fantasy
Director: Larry Leker, Paul Sabella
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Dom DeLuise, Sheena Easton, Ernest Borgnine, Bebe Neuwirth, Wallace Shawn, Jim Cummings, Pat Corley, Hamilton Camp, Dan Castellaneta, Steve Mackall, Tony Jay, George Hearn, Adam Wylie, Kevin Michael Richardson
In this animated feature film, Charlie Barken (voice of Charlie Sheen) is a dog angel and is bored by the eternal bliss of Heaven. Charlie finds relief when another angel, Carface (voice of Ernest Borgnine) tries to steal Gabriel's horn, and Charlie comes to Gabriel's defense. Along the way, Sasha La Fleur (voice of Sheena Easton) sashays her way into Charlie's life, and love blooms.
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An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island 2000 G, 78 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Musical
Director: Larry Latham
Cast: Thomas Dekker, Nehemiah Persoff, Dom DeLuise, Lacey Chabert, Pat Musick, Erica Yohn, John Kassir, Rene Auberjonois, David Carradine, Ron Perlman, Sherman Howard, Tony Jay, Richard Karron, Elaine Bilstad
Little Fievel the mouse is back. This time he comes across a tribe of American mice holed out in NYC and helps them protect a hidden treasure.
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 Beauty and the Beast 1991  G, 85 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Cast: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, David Ogden Stiers, Rex Everhart, Richard White, Jesse Corti, Jo Anne Worley, Mary Kay Bergman, Bradley Pierce, Hal Smith, Tony Jay
The animation of this popular fairy tale is a highlight of this Disney film. It is the story of beautiful young Belle (voice of Paige (O'Hara) who is forced to live with a Beast (voice of Robby Benson). She learns to look beneath the surface of another and discovers a gentle kindness hidden behind the beast's gruff exterior. The song "Beauty and the Beast" won an Academy Award as did the musical score. The film was also nominated for Best Picture.
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 The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1996  G, 95 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Drama / Musical
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Cast: Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Tony Jay, Mary Wickes, Kevin Kline, Paul Kandel, Jason Alexander, David Ogden Stiers, Mary Kay Bergman, Jim Cummings, Corey Burton, Bill Fagerbakke, Charles Kimbrough, Gary Trousdale, Heidi Mollenhauer
Victor Hugo's powerful 1831 melodrama is brought to the screen by Disney in this animated offering. It glides over the corruption of church and politics and concentrates on hunchback Quasimodo (voice of Tom Hulce) who has been hidden in the bell tower of Notre Dame Cathedral by his adopted father Frollo (voice of Tony Jay). Quasimodo's gargoyle friends–Victor (voice of Charles Kimbrough), Hugo (voice of Jason Alexander), and Laverne (voice of Mary Wickes)– encourage him to attend a festival where he meets sensuous gypsy Esmeralda (voice of Demi Moore) and handsome soldier Phoebus (voice of Kevin Kline). Now, Frollo's cruel tactics rise to the fore as he tries to destroy the gypsies' home. Quasimodo comes to their aid, and, by story's end, Phoebus and Esmeralda go off together, and Quasimodo returns to the bell tower.
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 The Jungle Book 2 2003 G, 75 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Musical
Director: Steve Trenbirth
Cast: John Goodman, Haley Joel Osment, Mae Whitman, Tony Jay, Phil Collins, John Rhys-Davies, Jim Cummings, Connor Funk, Bob Joles, Jeff Bennett, Veena Bidasha, Brian Cummings, Bobby Edner, Jess Harnell
When Mowgli (Voice of Haley Joel Osment) misses his jungle friends and returns to the jungle, troubles await.
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My Stepmother Is an Alien 1988  PG-13, 108 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Benjamin
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan, Joseph Maher, Seth Green, Harry Shearer, Ann Prentiss, Wesley Mann, Tony Jay
A spaceship from a doomed planet lands in Southern California carrying in it an alien (Kim Basinger) who just happens to have a snake that she carries in her purse. Her mission is to find an inept scientist (Dan Aykroyd) who might be able to re-create a ray that has affected the gravity on her planet.
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Tom and Jerry: The Movie 1992 G, 80 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Comedy / Musical
Director: Phil Roman
Cast: Richard Kind, Dana Hill, Anndi McAfee, Charlotte Rae, Henry Gibson, Rip Taylor, Sydney Lassick, Tony Jay, Michael Bell, Ed Gilbert, David L. Lander, Howard Morris, Tino Insana, Don Messick
Tom and Jerry are just as lovable in this full-length version as they are in their shorter cartoon stories. In this case, Tom and Jerry (voices of Richard Kind and Dana Hill) team up to rescue a young girl from her governess and lawyer.
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 Treasure Planet 2002  PG, 95 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Cast: Brian Murray, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emma Thompson, David Hyde Pierce, Martin Short, Patrick McGoohan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Laurie Metcalf, Michael Wincott, Dane A. Davis, Corey Burton, Tony Jay, Michael McShane, Jack Angel
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" has been reset to Treasure Planet in this Disney animated sci-fi film that takes place in outer space. Young Jim Hawkins (voice of Joseph Gordon-Levitt) travels across the universe as part of the crew of the spaceship R.L.S. Legacy, which is captained by Amelia (voice of Emma Thompson). A pirate, Billy Bones (voice of Patrick McGoohan), has given Jim a treasure map showing how to reach Treasure Planet, and Jim's purpose in signing on to the ship is to search for the treasures hidden there. Jim becomes friends with crew member John Silver (voice of Brian Murray) and learns that he is part cyborg and plans a mutiny. When Jim opts out of the mutiny, he finds an ally in marooned robot B.E.N. (voice of Martin Short) and tries to defend law and order. The film received a Best Animated Feature Academy Award nomination.
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| 1. All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996)
2. An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island (2000)
3. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
4. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
5. The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
6. My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
7. Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)
8. Treasure Planet (2002)
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