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Movies like the parent trap/ cheaper by the dozen

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HeyHowdyHey · 21/06/2026 22:00

Can anyone recommend more nostalgic late 80s /90s movies to watch with the kids?

Recently we’ve watched cheaper by the dozen, the parent trap and it takes two.

ideally the films need to be pg ish.

thanks

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OneBusyFinch · 21/06/2026 22:13

Herbie: Fully Loaded
Labryinth
The Goonies
Freaky Friday
The Dark Crystal
Uncle Buck
Back to the Future
Teenwolf

EvelynBeatrice · 21/06/2026 22:23

Furry Vengeance is brilliant.
Also Flight of the Navigator and Space Camp.

piperatthegates · 21/06/2026 22:25

Mean Girls
10 things I hate about you
Confessions of a teenage drama queen
Daddy Day Care

All loved by my DD at around age 12 ish

HeyHowdyHey · 21/06/2026 22:25

Oh thank you
definitely some gems here I had forgotten about!

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QueenImprov · 21/06/2026 22:27

Three men and a baby
Sister Act
Beethoven

OneBusyFinch · 21/06/2026 22:27

Yes to Space Camp!

also, Short Circuit

FishDogBird · 21/06/2026 22:31

Honey I Shrunk The Kids

Fatiguedwithlife · 21/06/2026 22:35

Drop dead Fred

Quokkafeet · 21/06/2026 22:39

My two (10 and 8) recently enjoyed mighty ducks, cool runnings and Freaky Friday. The freaky Friday with Lindsay Logan and Jamie lee Curtis is great, I enjoyed it myself!

Just a tip, some of the films mentioned above are a bit more than Pg. I've made the mistake a few times of misremembering the content of films/ how old I was when I watched them - 10 things I hate about you is probably a 12.

I used the IMDB website to look up films, there is a Parent Guide section which tells you the flagged content and why it has the certificate it does. It's really useful because I don't care too much about language but don't like them watching stuff with too many sexual references or too much gore (8 year old gets nightmares!)

canuckup · 22/06/2026 03:06

It takes two

DNAwrangler · 22/06/2026 03:30

Flubber
ET
Mrs Doubtfire
Free Willy

PonyPals · 22/06/2026 04:22

Yes day!

frenchnoodle · 22/06/2026 04:42

Just a thing to highlight, as I've been watching these with my kids depending on the age of your kids:
Uncle Buck has a teenage boy pressuring a girl into sex while they're in bed.

Three men and a baby, one of the dads is a drug dealer and hides drugs in the babies nappy so the police can't find it when they search the apartment.

Mouth in Goonies tells the Spanish maid the attic is full of sexual torture devices and that she must separate the cannabis from the cocaine when putting clothes in the dresser draws.

Mrs Doubtfire on Disney plus is the US version not the one from the EU, so Robin Williams, as Mrs Doubtfire asks Stu if he's looking for a bit of "Little Jack Horny, the Horizontal Mambo, The Bone Dancer, Rumpled Foreskin, Baloney Bop, a bit of the cunning linguisitics?"

Ghostbusters has the famous Ghost blow job scene.

iPreferBooks · 22/06/2026 04:56

The Borrowers
Spiderwick Chronicles
Neverending Story
Cinderella Story
Nanny Mc Phee
Hook
Peter Pan (2003)
The Goonies (although you might want to wait until they're a bit older for this one is rated 12A).
The Secret Garden
The Railway Kids
Matilda
Jumangi
Labyrinth (loved this one but there might have been scary moments despite being PG)

Overtheatlantic · 22/06/2026 05:34

Kindergarten Cop

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