Suggestions for really amazing films for 11 year olds

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Looking for suggestions they can watch during the summer holidays but not the usual stuff. I’m thinking about films that they’ll enjoy but will really get them thinking, in an age appropriate way.

Love hunt for the wilderpeople

Also what we did last summer

Sorry that last one should have sIs “what we did on our holiday”

The Help
Grease
Sleepless in Seattle
Dirty Dancing
Mission Impossible
Avatar
Anything appropriate with Eddie Murphy orJohnny Depp in.

I adored Blazing Saddles as a kid, and Tootsie - no idea how they have aged!

Old Boys - re-telling of Cyrano de B, set in a 1980s boarding school but be careful not to download Oldboy by mistake

Son of Rambow - another 1980s school setting. Sweet and funny

Remember the Titans is great - about a football coach in a recently de-segregated high school football team. On similar lines but probably for slightly older audiences, 12 year old DS also really enjoyed Coach Carter recently

DS 11 is watching Disney's Descendants and really enjoying it

Eddie the Eagle
Uncle Buck
Edward Scissorhands
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Ghostbusters

the great escape!
Calamity Jane

Rear Window.
DD gave me a pitiful look and pointed out that Grace Kelly was much better dressed than me.

This is a great list

The Martian.

Titanic. Even if they're not into romance it's a technical marvel and one of the last films to utilise building a massive set.

I fucking hated Grease as a young kid. I spent the whole thing thinking I was about to see a film about a nerdy, unfashionable girl be accepted for who she was, as I was under a lot of pressure from friends and my mother to dress 'more girly' to 'get boys' and take up smoking and make up, and to see that's what Sandy had to do to win the day, the boy and get everyone clapping and cheering was just so depressing.

Brilliant thread thank you!

Great suggestions. I watched Big yesterday with my ds and he enjoyed that. Also Galaxy Quest

We wept with laughter at Galaxy Quest and it was lovely to watch the late Alan Rickman.

@TempestHayes I feel exactly the same about Grease and thought this even as a pre-teen when I first watched it

August Rush - it's a lovely film, full of music and the power of hopes and dreams with a bit of drama.

The Pursuit of Happyness with Will Smith, massive hit in our house. Sad initially but ultimately inspiring!

My DS liked:
Goonies
To Kill A Mockingbird
Warhorse
Evita
What We Did On Our Holiday

Alongside the usual Disney etc offerings.

and Smokey and the Bandit, actually. Forgot that. Not very thought provoking but a lot of fun.

Flight of the Navigator
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Men in Black
Cool Runnings
Bruce/Evan Almighty

Err we aren’t responsible parents, but the kids enjoyed these..
Goon and Goon 2
Slap shot
The mighty ducks
Back to the future (can’t believe it’s not been mentioned yet!)
The Sandra bullock one where she adopts the huge black football player
The Hugh Jackman movie with robots fighting (menopause brain!)

And then for light relief with lots of foul language the Santa Cruz syndicate on YouTube - mountain biking series.

Most of our choices revolve around extreme sports and they do come with some choice language which they’ve been taught to ignore!

We are currently on Gone with the Wynns on YouTube, we pretty much ditched movies.

Oh and they were both gripped by 1917.

Green Book
another vote for Hunt for the Wilderpeople!

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