Looking for movie from this desciption....!

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My MIL wants to buy a DVD for DS1 birthday that she heard reviewed on Radio 4. However, she cannot remember the title of the film. All we have to go on is that it was mentioned on Radio 4 in the last 6 weeks and it's an animated production about a boy who goes on an adventure by "falling" into another World. The reviewer apparently said anyone under 10 would enjoy it. Ringing any bells with anyone?!!

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Arthur and the Invisibles, possibly?

Email into Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's 5 live show and he might answer you on Friday. He would definitely know!

Thanks for quick responses!! I did try the Front Row bit of the Radio 4 website but no joy. My MIL is more likely to have listened to Womans Hour though! Googled "Arthur and the Invisibles" and it doesn't sound quite right but will ring and ask her. Am liking the idea of contacting Simon Mayo - I used to set my alarm really early just to listen to ALL his Radio 1 breakfast show when I was a student. Before children OBVIOUSLY.

Thanks cat64. Have googled Flushed Away but it was released a couple of years ago. I get the impression this "mystery film" must have just come out at the cinema or has just come out on DVD. We haven't got much to go on have we?!

Bridge to terabithia??

"Horton hears a who", not a boy though.

DVD release dates for October and November

Cinema release dates

surely it is a recent film and therefore not available yet on dvd?
how aobut watching film 2008,

"U" certificate films with a 2008 cinema release/re-release (and, OT, how the heck is The Searchers a U certificate?)

Abba - The Movie Documentary / Musical
Ashley, a young radio disc-jockey, is ordered to undertake an in-depth interview with ABBA during their mega-successful 1977 tour of Australia. He follows them around the country, attending all their concerts, desperate to secure an audience.

Aida - Opera In Four Acts Musical / Romance
Aida, an Ethiopian princess, is captured and brought into slavery in Egypt, where she wins the heart of Radames, a military commander. When Egypt declares war on Ethiopia, Radames struggles to choose between his love for Aida and his loyalty to the Pharaoh.

Alice In Den Stadten - Alice In The Cities Drama
Philip Winter decides to return to his native Germany and, while trying to book a flight, encounters a woman and her nine year old daughter, Alice. The three become friends, but after the mother asks Winter to mind Alice, it quickly becomes clear that she will be his responsibility for longer than he'd expected.

Arctic Tale Documentary / Family
Documentary in which we follow a young polar bear and a walrus pup as they try to survive in the Arctic's changing environment.

Azur & Asmar - The Princes' Quest Adventure / Animation
Azur is a blond boy with blue eyes, Asmar has dark hair and dark eyes. As children, they fought and loved each other like brothers. As grown ups, they become rivals on a quest full of danger, magic spells and wonder.

Barbie Horse Adventures - Riding Camp
Barbie arrives at the storm damaged Equestria horse camp, an establishment owned by Mrs Roberts. She helps to clear some of the debris and learns to ride and care for horses, eventually using her new-found skills to take part in competitions.

Blessed Drama
After an unexpected meeting, a grown man and a small girl support each other through the grief that follows the loss of their families.

Bob The Builder - Race To The Finish Animation / Children's TV
Sunflower Valley is having a new stadium built by Bob and Wendy. For this they need some new high-tech machines. The two new machines, Gripper and Grapper, fall out but eventually learn that not only is working fun, but working together is even better.

Bolt Music
A filmed performance of Shostakovitch's ballet telling the story of conflicts between factory workers in the former Soviet Union.

Bratz Super Babyz
Aliens have landed on Earth and mistakenly transformed the Babyz into superheroes. With their newfound powers, the Babyz use their abilities to help the citizens of Stylesville and battle the evil invaders.

College Road Trip Comedy
James Porter is a loving but overprotective father who has difficulty coming to terms with the fact that his 'little girl', Melanie, is now a young woman. When Melanie decides to go on a road trip to visit some colleges she might attend, she is not too pleased to have her father along for the ride.

El Tigre: The Adventures Of Manny Rivera
The Rivera Family gets into some trouble when Puma Loco and White Pantera are kidnapped. El Tigre must enlist of friends Frida and Black Cuervo to save his Dad and Grandpapi!

Hannah Montana - DVD Game
'Hannah Montana - The DVD Game' is based on the popular Disney Channel television show about a teenage pop star who has to conceal her true identity from her high school peers.

Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus - Best Of Both Worlds Concert Musical
A 3-D concert film of the 2007 Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana tour.

High School Musical - DVD Game
Quiz game based on the popular Disney Channel feature, including songs, outtakes and clips from the film.

High School Musical 3 - Senior Year Musical / Romance
As seniors in high school, Troy and Gabriella struggle with the idea of being separated from one another as college approaches. Along with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical to address their school experiences and their hopes and fears about their future.

I.O.U.S.A. Documentary
An American documentary feature which examines the country's rapidly growing national debt and the consequences for both the nation as a whole and its citizens.

La Forza Del Destino Costume Drama / Musical
After her lover Alvaro accidentally shoots her father, Leonora flees from her brother Carlo, who has sworn to to kill her in revenge. She takes refuge at the monastery of the Madonna of the Angels, in the hope of finding peace.

La Rondine Drama / Musical / Romance
Magda, a worldly woman, falls in love with a naive younger man at a dinner party. They go away together and he eventually proposes. However, she rejects him and confesses that she is not the pure woman his mother would want for her son.

Lego Indiana Jones - The Original Adventures
Indiana Jones gets the Lego treatment. The player follows the narrative of the original films, but with the characters and scenery recreated in Lego. The gamer plays as Indy or any of the other main characters, solving puzzles and battling against enemies.

Madagascar - Escape 2 Africa
After escaping Madagascar on a plane, the animals' plan to return to New York City is thwarted when they crash land in Africa. The player has to utilise the skills of each animal in order to solve puzzles and help the motley bunch survive.

Manufactured Landscapes Documentary
Documentary about photographer Edward Burtynsky's work exploring the effects of industrialised manufacturing on landscapes around the world.

Mera Pind My Home Drama
Himmat, a young graduate, falls in love with the college belle and struggles to win her father over. Meanwhile, a corrupt property dealer wants to sell Himmat's village to make apartment complexes, something he must band together with his friends to prevent.

Nim's Island Adventure / Family

Nim is a young girl who lives with her scientist father on a deserted island. When he goes missing at sea during a tropical storm, Nim asks her favourite fictional hero, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer, to help.

Now, Voyager Drama / Romance
Charlotte Vale winds up in a sanatorium, where her self-confidence is boosted by an understanding psychiatrist. After a brief shipboard affair, she determines to help her lover's depressed daughter, in whom she recognises many aspects of her former self.

Penelope Fantasy / Romance
Penelope, a young woman cursed to go through life with a pig's snout, sets out to find love and discover her true self.

Romeo And Juliet Costume Drama / Musical / Romance
The famous ballet, based on Shakespeare's tale of two star-crossed lovers, is danced by world famous dancers, Carlos Acosta and Tamara Roja. The ballet is prefaced by Jonathan Cope's introduction and accompanied by backstage footage of dancers and stage crew preparing.

Samba De Amigo
Amigo the monkey and his tambourine-shaking sister Amiga help the player shake maracas in time to different Latin tunes.

Space Chimps Adventure / Animation
When a multi-billion dollar space probe is sucked into an intergalactic worm-hole, a crew of chimpanzee astronauts is sent to recover it. Commander Titan and Lt. Luna are joined by Ham III, a circus performer and the grandson of the first chimpanzee in space.

Sylvia Musical / Romance
Sylvia, one of Diana's nymphs, is struck by one of Cupid's arrows and falls in love with shepherd-boy Aminta. When she is captured by evil Orion and taken to his lair, she must feign interest in order to escape and find her true love.

The 39 Steps Thriller
Richard Hannay meets a woman on the run from foreign agents. When she is killed by her pursuers at his apartment, Hannay decides to break the spy ring to prove his innocence in the affair and avenge her death.

The Fox And The Child Drama
A young girl attempts to befriend a wild fox, with consequences that teach her useful lessons about respecting animals who live in the wild.

The Game Plan Comedy / Drama
An estranged father is forced to change his ways when he has to take responsibility for his young daughter.

The Old Maid Costume Drama
When her suitor is killed in the Civil War, an unmarried mother lets her childless cousin bring up her daughter as her own. Charlotte destroys her own chances of happiness to give her illegitimate daughter a chance in life and love and becomes a bitter old maid.

The Searchers Adventure
Ethan Edwards, returned from the Civil War to the Texas ranch of his brother, hopes to find a home with his family and to be near the woman he secretly loves. But a Comanche raid destroys these plans, and Ethan sets out on a 5 year journey to find the niece kidnapped by the Indians and return her to her family.

The Sleeping Beauty Drama / Family / Musical
A filmed on-stage ballet of the fairy story in which a young girl is tricked into eternal sleep by a wicked witch. One day Prince Charming arrives at her enchanted castle to awaken her with his magical kiss.

The Ugly Duckling And Me Adventure / Animation
When Ratso, a slick city rat, sees Ugly, an unfortunate duckling, all he can imagine is cash. He plans on exploiting the duckling at carnival sideshows. But 'the best-laid plans of rats and ducks' don't always work out the way we'd like them to.

U23D Documentary / Music
U2 play Buenos Aires, Argentina. A concert of old and new in spectacular 3D taking audiences into the heart of the concert, the audience and the band.

Underdog Comedy / Family
A lab accident gives a dog called Shoeshine some serious superpowers - a secret that he eventually shares with a young boy who becomes his owner and friend.

WALL-E
WALL-E is a waste allocation robot left to clean up the mess on Earth after it has become uninhabitable for human life. When EVE, a sleek search robot sent by humans to check on the status of Earth, turns up he suddenly discovers a new meaning to life.

WALL-E Animation / Fantasy
WALL-E is the last robot on Earth, having lived a lonely existence for hundreds of years handling waste disposal. One day, a sleek robot called Eve arrives on Earth, sent from space. When WALL-E finds a living shoot, it is transported back by Eve, who is followed

No Film 2008 for the time being . . due to a certain prank phonecall I believe. You might have seen something in the papers about it. Although it wasn't well reported!

"PG" certificate films with a 2008 UK cinema release:

A Letter To True Documentary
Photographer Bruce Weber shares key moments of his life by writing letters to his dog, True. Scenes from films like 'Lassie' are mixed with footage of Weber's own dogs and of other famous people who have been similarly connected to their canine friends.

Adventure Film Festival - Environmental Night Documentary
Two documentaries tackling environmental issues. The first deals with the community of Bristol Bay in Alaska and their objections to the creation of a copper and gold mine. The second follows two kayakers travelling across the country using used oil instead of petrol for fuel.

Adventure Film Festival - High Altitude Night Documentary
Documentary following blind climber Erik who, with the encouragement of his wife, Ellen, joins a wonderfully supportive team that sets off to climb Mt. Everest.

Aegan Action / Romance
When Ran Passad, a crooked businessman, goes into hiding, Special Forces policeman Shiva is sent undercover to track him down. By posing as a student at a college where Passad's daughter Pooja attends classes, he hopes to win her trust and then catch her father.

Alexandra Drama
Alexandra, an old woman, visits the base in Chechnya where her grandson is serving during the war. She agrees to buy sweet treats for the soldiers from a market and meets a local woman who reveals the truth about the war and its effects.

Arctic Monkeys At The Apollo Music
Live performance of the Arctic Monkeys' December 2007 show at the Manchester Apollo.

Asterix Aux Jeux Olympiques - Asterix At The Olympic Games Adventure / Comedy / Family
Audacious young Gaul Alafolix falls head over heels in love with Greek princess Irina. With the help of Asterix, Obelix and their druid's magic potion, he travels to Greece to win the Olympic Games and Irina's heart.

Bachna Ae Haseeno Romantic Comedy
Raj Sharma reflects on the three great loves in his life - Mahi, Radhika, and Gayatri. After his relationships with all three have ended unsatisfactorily, he tracks them down in order to make amends and enhance their lives, and, ultimately, his own.

Ben 10 - Alien Force
Five years after Ben Tennyson stopped using the Omnitrix, Grandpa Max goes missing and the Earth is in danger. The player takes control of Ben, Gwen and Kevin, as well as five of Ben's new alien forms to help defeat the Highbreed.

Bhoothnath Comedy / Drama
A young boy befriends a spooky spirit, Bhoothnath, who turns out to be none other than his own grandfather.

Blindsight Documentary
A documentary that charts the attempts of six blind Tibetan teenagers to climb Lhaka Ri, a sister peak to Mt Everest. The expedition is led by Erik Weihenmayer - the first blind man ever to have climbed Mt Everest - along with a small supporting team.

Blueprint Documentary / Musical
Singer and songwriter Hugh Cornwell performs songs from his new album 'Hoover Dam'. Each track is punctuated by clips from an interview in which he talks about what influenced and inspired the music and lyrics for the album.

Buddha Collapsed Out Of Shame Drama
Baktay lives with her mother in the caves surrounding the site of the giant statues of the Buddha which were destroyed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. When she sees that the boy next door has started school, she resolves to get an education too.

Caramel Drama / Romance
Each of the women working in a Beirut beauty salon has her own romantic problems. Layal is having an affair, Nisrine is worried about her coming marriage, Rima thinks she's a lesbian and Jamal fears old age.

City Of Ember Adventure / Fantasy
The glittering lights of the magical City of Ember have started to flicker. In a race against time, two teenagers must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, and help the citizens escape before the lights go out forever.

CJ7 Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Dicky Chow, a young boy living in a tiny flat with his widowed dad, befriends a mysterious alien creature from a rubbish dump. CJ7 transforms Dicky's life, helping him cope with homework, bullies and growing up.

Command & Conquer - Red Alert 3
The player assumes the role of a commander representing each of the three protagonists in a futuristic world war ? the Soviet Union, an American/British alliance and the Japanese. In order to progress through the game the player must first construct a base from which to operate.

Crin-Blanc - Le Cheval Sauvage (White Mane - The Wild Stallion) Drama
In the marshlands of the Camargue, a boy, Folco, comes across a white-maned horse which has long been the target of local ranchers. A deep friendship develops between the pair, but is always in the shadow of the ranchers' relentless pursuit of the horse.

Dan In Real Life Romantic Comedy
Dan, a devoted father of three teenage daughters, meets his brother's new girlfriend and falls head over heels in love. Unable to act on his feelings, he watches the relationship from the sidelines.

Death Defying Acts Costume Drama
Harry Houdini arrives in Edinburgh for the grand finale of his 1926 world tour. There, he encounters an alluring and mysterious psychic who may not be all that she seems.

Dial M For Murder Thriller
Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wealthy wife because she had an affair the year before. He blackmails an old college associate to strangle her, but when things go wrong he sees a way to turn events to his advantage.

Doctor Zhivago Drama / Romance
A Russian epic tracing the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion.

Drona Adventure / Fantasy
A young man has grown up unaware of his heritage: he is the legendary warrior Drona who must now play out his destiny in a fight to the death with the evil magician Riz Raizada who is determined to bring everlasting misery to humankind.

East Of Eden Drama
In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete with his brother Aron for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war to his prickly relationship with their mother.

Easy Virtue Costume Drama
John Whittaker returns to his parents' country house with his new wife, American divorcée Larita. But behind the moneyed facade, the family estate is close to bankruptcy and Larita's presence disturbs the fine balance of the Whittakers' domestic life.

Fly Me to the Moon Animation / Comedy
Three young flies, Scooter, IQ and Nat, sneak their way onto the Apollo 11 space mission and have to battle a Russian fly operative to stop him scuppering the spaceship's re-entry.

George Bizet's Carmen Musical / Romance
Carmen, a seductive gypsy woman in Seville, tempts a young corporal called Don Jose to leave his girlfriend for her. The lovelorn Don Jose leaves the army and turns to a life of crime for Carmen's sake, with tragic consequences.

Giulio Cesare - Opera In Three Acts Music / Romance
An opera by Handel based on the story of the romance between the Roman emperor Julius Caesar and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

Honeydripper Costume Drama
The Honeydripper Lounge in small-town Alabama is losing both money and customers. Owner Tyrone is in debt and wants to lure the younger customers and cotton-pickers from rival army base juke joint Toussaints.

Igor Animation / Comedy
A talented scientist called Igor is the downtrodden servant of an evil scientist named Blinkenstein. They live in the world of Malaria, a land of permanent cloud and rain filled with Mad Scientists and Evil Inventions.

Ikiru Drama
In Post-War Tokyo the bureaucratic City Hall employee Kenji Watanabe finds that he has terminal cancer. He decides to live out his last months to the full and succeeds in finding some meaning to his life while fighting for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city.

Il Trittico Musical
Three Puccini operettas from La Scala. 'Il Tabarro' ? A ship's captain, his wife and a deckhand are caught up in a love triangle. 'Suor Angelica' - A nun discovers secrets from her past. 'Gianni Schicchi' ? A family grieves at the bedside of a relative, each member plotting to get their hands on his will.

Indralogaththiel Nan Alagappan Comedy
Alagappan comes across a beautiful statue and falls in love. The statue comes to life and so start a series of adventures as he is taken to Heaven and to Hell by his mysterious new friend.

Journey To The Center Of The Earth Action / Adventure
On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the centre of the earth.

Kismat Konnection Romantic Comedy
Raj Malhotra graduates at the top of his class and believes his future will be rosy. However, his job falls through and his bad luck just seems to get worse. He visits a fortune teller, who informs him that good luck will arrive, but only after he has found his lucky charm.

Kung Fu Panda
Po, an inept and elderly panda, is surprised to discover that he is the 'Chosen One' and must develop his martial arts skills in order to thwart the plans of an evil tyrant.

Kung Fu Panda Animation / Comedy / Family
Po the lazy panda is amazed when he is selected as his village's Dragon Warrior. He has to become a Kung Fu Master to save the Valley of Peace from a villainous snow leopard, Tai Lung.

Kuselan Comedy / Drama / Family / Musical
Balan a humble barber, is turned down for a loan to buy an all essential chair for his barber's shop as has insulted the bank manager and town hierarchy with his incorruptibility. He stumbles up on some film makers planning to shoot in his town and is told that he should furnish the movie with a star to become locally popular.

Le Voyage Du Ballon Rouge Drama / Fantasy
Suzanne employs a young Taiwanese babysitter, Song Fang, to look after her young son, Simon. Soon, Song Fang and Simon share an imaginary world - a strange red balloon follows them all over town.

Leatherheads Romantic Comedy
The owner of a struggling professional football team drafts in a strait-laced college sensation, only to watch his new coach fall for his fiancée.

Lemon Tree Drama
Widowed Salma Zidane lives alone and cares for the 40 year old lemon grove planted by her late father and previously cared for by her late husband. The Israeli Secret Service order that the Grove must be cut down but Salma is prepared to fight to save her livelihood.

Love Story 2050 Romance / Sci-fi
Karan is courting the love of his life, Sana but their blossoming romance is cut short when Sana is run over and killed. Using his Uncle's time machine Karan decides to go to Mumbai in the year 2050 where he finds the reincarnation of Sana, who is a famous pop singer.

Maan Gaye Mughall-E-Azam Action / Adventure / Comedy / Musical
Married couple Marju and Shabnam are stage actors who are part of an acting troupe. An undercover cop, Arjun, turns their lives upside down by involving them in an assignment to catch terrorists and save the world.

Make It Happen Drama / Romance
Embarking on a journey to fulfill her dreams as a dancer, a young girl discovers a new style of dance that will prove to be the source of both conflict and self-discovery.

Mamma Mia! Musical / Romantic Comedy
18-year-old Sophie has a problem. It's almost her wedding day and she doesn't know who her father is - it could be any of three of her mother's past suitors. The only way to find out is to invite all three to her wedding and see what happens.

Maria Stuarda Costume Drama / Musical
Mary Queen of Scots becomes a thorn in Elizabeth I's side ? as much because of their rivalry over the love of Dudley, Earl of Leicester, as the threat that Mary poses to Elizabeth's reign ? and England's monarch must sign her cousin's death warrant.

Married Life Costume Drama
Harry Allen wants to escape his marriage and live with his young lover, but doesn't know how to do so without shattering his wife's world. He decides the only solution is to kill her and buys a dangerous chemical to put in her digestive powder.

Maskeli Besler - Kibris Action / Comedy
A hapless gang of thieves plan to rob a casino and arrange to go undercover in various jobs in order to infiltrate the inner sanctum and obtain the vital key to the vault.

Meet Dave Comedy
A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship, 'Dave' that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with a beautiful Earth woman.

Mere Baap Pehle Aap Musical / Romantic Comedy
Gaurav is a shopping mall manager who lives with his father Rane. Unlike typical father-son relationships, in this one the son controls the father and he is often caught out by being a bit of a naughty boy.

Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day Romantic Comedy
Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.

Mummies - The Secrets Of The Pharaohs Documentary
IMAX film about the mummies found within the pyramids of ancient Egypt. We follow a group of scientists as they try to discover if the mummies' DNA could provide help in curing modern diseases like malaria.

Muniyandi - Vilangiyal Moondraamaandu Action / Romance
Humbly born Muni goes to college where he falls for Madhuitha, the daughter of his father's college employer. His father is worried that Muni's fate will follow that of his other son who was killed when he got involved with the wrong girl.

National Treasure - Book Of Secrets Action / Adventure
When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates's great-great grandfather is implicated as a key conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's death. Determined to prove his ancestor's innocence, Ben follows an international chain of clues that takes him on a chase from Paris to London and ultimately back to America.

Nights in Rodanthe Drama / Romance
Unhappy separated woman Adrienne minds her friend's remote beachside hotel where the only guest is Dr Paul Flanner who is there to meet the bereaved husband of a woman who died in his surgery.

Perrivoom Sandippom Drama / Romance
Sarah and G are brought together by a marriage broker who convinces their families to agree to the union. When they begin life as a married couple, differences start to emerge and Sarah finds it increasingly frustrating to give up all her interests and play the demure wife.

Roadside Romeo Musical / Romance
Romeo's wealthy owners emigrate to the UK and leave him to fend for himself on the streets of Mumbai. He becomes part of a gang of friendly street dogs but finds himself up against a local crime lord when he falls for the object of that dog's affections.

Saas Bahu and Sensex Comedy / Drama / Musical
A mother and daughter move to start a new life in Mumbai. While the daughter gets a job in a call-centre, the mother starts dabbling in the world of stocks and shares.

Sharkwater Documentary
'Sharkwater' is a documentary about the illegal and unregulated fishing of sharks around the World.

Singh is Kinng Action / Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romantic Comedy
When Lucky Singh sets off on a journey to Australia he accidentally ends up in Egypt where he meets the girl of his dreams. He meets her again back in India but she is engaged to be married to another man.

Some Came Running Drama
Dave Hirsh, a writer and army veteran, returns to his hometown of Parkman, Indiana, after being away for sixteen years. His prosperous jeweller brother Frank resents his reappearance and Dave has to come to terms with both his roots and his future.

Speed Racer Action / Fantasy / Sport
A young driver aims for supreme glory on the racetrack with help from his family and the Mach 5 supercar designed by his father.

Spore
A species develops from a microscopic organism into a complex animal, emerging as a social, intelligent being and then finally moving into space, whereupon it interacts with alien species across the galaxy.

Star Wars - The Clone Wars Animation / Sci-fi
When Jabba The Hutt's infant son is kidnapped, the Jedi are asked to help recover him in return for safe passage through Hutt's systems. But it is a plot engineered by Count Dooku to frame the Jedi and force Jabba to join his fight against the Republic.

Steep Documentary / Sport
A sports documentary that traces the legacy of extreme skiing from its early pioneers 35 years ago, to the daredevils of today.

Step Up 2 The Streets Comedy / Drama / Romance
Rebellious Andie takes up a place at the prestigious Maryland School of the Arts and romantic sparks begin with Chase, who is from a very different background. Dropped by her street crew for going 'posh', Andie starts a new dance group.

Still Life Drama
Han Sanming, a coal miner, searches for the wife who walked out on him sixteen years earlier, taking their young daughter. At the same time, nurse Shen Hong searches for her missing husband.

Stone of Destiny Comedy / Drama
'Stone of Destiny' is a film based on the real-life incident in which four Glaswegian students stole the coronation Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey on Christmas day in 1951 to take it to Scotland as a mark of their nationalist beliefs.

Sweet Land Drama
Inge arrives in Minnesota to marry a young Norwegian farmer named Olaf. Her German heritage and lack of official immigration papers make her an object of suspicion in the small town, and she and Olaf are forbidden to marry.

Taare Zameen Par - Every Child Is Special Drama
An eight-year-old boy's dreamy and sometimes disruptive behaviour masks a problem that no-one is aware of until he is sent to boarding school and comes under the influence of an inspirational young art teacher.

Tamerlano Musical / Romance
Tamerlano, Emperor of the Tartares, has defeated and taken prisoner the Turkish Sultan Bajazet. Although Tamerlano is betrothed to Irene, Princess of Trabizond, he falls in love with Asteria, Bajazet's daughter.

The 11th Hour Documentary
A look at the state of the global environment including practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems.

The Apartment Comedy / Drama / Romance
Bud Baxter is a struggling clerk in a huge New York insurance company. He's discovered a quick way to climb the corporate ladder - by lending out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses.

The Chronicles Of Narnia - Prince Caspian Action / Adventure / Fantasy
Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are pulled back to Narnia by Susan's magic horn. They find that hundreds of years have passed, and Narnia is now ruled by the bloodthirsty General Miraz, uncle to the true heir, Prince Caspian, now in exile.

The Express Drama / Sport
A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

The Message Fantasy
A group of bankers discover a time machine and travel forwards to a world where the environment is under serious threat. They are put on trial for causing the pollution and must try to escape before they are sentenced to death.

The Passionate Friends Drama / Romance
By chance, Mary Justin runs into Steve Stratton, her childhood sweetheart and the love of her life. Though she is now married, the meeting rekindles long-forgotten desires and the pair enter new and dangerous territory.

The Spiderwick Chronicles Adventure / Fantasy
Jared moves to a spooky house in the countryside with his twin brother Simon, sister Mallory and their mother. As he explores the house, he discovers a secret room and a book of spells and is transported into a magical world of fairies, goblins and ogres.

The Unwinking Gaze Documentary
Filmed over three years, we follow the Dalai Lama to various countries. We catch both his more intimate moments and his appearances on the global stage in talks with world leaders.

The Water Horse Adventure / Fantasy
Rooted in one of the most fascinating and enduring legends of our times, the tale starts with a mysterious egg, discovered by a lonely boy. When it hatches, he is taken on the journey of a lifetime.

Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic Romantic Comedy
A wealthy young industrialist accidentally kills a married couple in a traffic accident and has to adopt the deceased couple's four young children. An angel comes to his aid.

Tristan Und Isolde Drama / Musical
An opera charting the doomed and tragic love story of Tristan and Isolde - brought together by revenge, bound in this life by love and in eternity by death.

We Are Together - Thina Simunye Documentary
The moving and inspiring story of 12-year-old Slindile and her remarkable friends at the Agape orphanage in South Africa. Filmed over three years, with unforgettable kids, soaring music and a plot full of surprises.

Yaaradi Nee Mohini Drama / Romance
Vasu, an unemployed young man from a modest background, finds his life turned upside-down when he falls in love with an ambitious and career-minded rich girl.

Yaariyan Musical / Romantic Comedy
Jassay, a young Indian, moves to Canada and starts a samosa business with his Kenyan sidekick. He starts to court the niece of a wealthy Sikh businessman and, when he is knocked over by her uncle's car, sees a money-making opportunity.

Young @ Heart Documentary
British filmmaker Stephen Walker joins a group of elderly singers for seven weeks as they rehearse their repertoire of classic and contemporary rock and pop songs in advance of a sell-out concert

Loads of ideas! Thanks all of you for your help and suggestions. I have emailed the BBC, so fingers crossed, but fear they don't have much to go on as MIL does not remember programme she heard it on OR film/DVD title. Will keep searching..... or suggest she buys DS1 some birthday lego instead!!

oh yes, woss, you are forgiven

That does sound like Arthur and the Invisibles to me....but you say it isn't!

Is it a newly released movie or maybe older...
Arthur came out on DVD last year...btw..

Is it the 'his dark materials' thing? By philip pullman?

I mean 'the golden compass' came out in 2007 so DVD release could be now?

If it is older...could it be The Pagemaster
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"In a parallel world ruled by The Magisterium where people's souls have animal shapes, the orphan Lyra Belaqua is educated in the Jordan College, and her uncle and Professor Lord Asriel is her tutor. Lyra accidentally overhears a conversation about a research of Lord Asriel in the North Artic and the existence of a powerful Dust that unites different worlds. When her best friend Roger is kidnapped by the evil Gobblers, Lyra promises to rescue him. She is invited to go to the North with the influent Mrs. Coulter and the Jordan's Vice-Chancellor secretly gives her a magic golden compass capable of revealing the truth. When Lyra finds that Mrs. Coulter is the leader of the Gobblers, she escapes from her house and the runaway girl begins an amazing adventure in a war to save her friend and other missing children with her allied Gyptians, Witches and the strong Armored Bear Iorek Byrnison."

oh yes golden compass...that is out....and it is a very good movie!

The Golden Compass isn't animated though so it can't be that surely?

true....but running out of options....still think it is Arthur and the invisables....because he did drop into animated land and had advurters

AHA - have read numerous film/dvd descriptions out to MIL and she has decided it was Arthur and the Invisibles. Marvellous!! Thanks for all your help.

It is a brilliant movie....