Kid Valentine Movies to Enjoy

Be My Valentine Charlie Brown

Who can resist the charm of Charlie Brown? Charlie Brown is always a classic to enjoy and watch. Be My Valentine Charlie Brown is a 1975 movie on DVD with the Peanuts gang. This is a good light-hearted Valentine movie for the entire family to enjoy.

Bug’s Bunny Cupid Capers

Another great Valentine movie for the entire family and kids to enjoy is Bug’s Bunny Cupid Capers. Classic Elmer Fudd tries his hand at playing a match maker. This is a great new version of Bug’s Bunny and the gang to enjoy with your kids for some wholesome humor on Valentine’s Day.

Care Bear Helping Hearts

The Care Bear gang is so enjoyable. With the Care Bear Helping Hearts, there are eight episodes for kids to enjoy on Valentine’s day. This is a great movie series for preschool and elementary school aged kids to keep them entertained Valentine’s Day.

The Cider House Rules (1999)

The Cider House Rules is a coming-of-age movie. Tobey Maguire stars as Homer Wells. He’s an orphan in a remote area of Maine. Dr. Larch, played by Michael Caine is very fond of Homer and teaches him medical skills. Dr. Larch would love nothing more than for Homer to follow in his footsteps. Homer has something different in mind. He wants a life outside the orphanage.

Wally, a soldier, played by Paul Rudd, brings his pregnant girlfriend Candy, played by Charlize Theron, to the orphanage seeking an abortion. Homer becomes friends with the couple and decides to leave the orphanage and work on Wally’s family’s apple farm.

Wally is sent back to war, leaving Candy and Homer alone. They form a very close bond and become intimate. Candy always said she doesn’t do well being alone and gave in to temptation.

An injured Wally comes home from war and Homer respectfully and painfully, bows out of Candy’s life. Homer also learns the stark reality of the world outside the orphanage isn’t as good as he thought it would be. What path will he follow now to find where he really belongs?

The Cider House Rules is a good movie with an excellent cast – available on DVD.

One Last Dance (2003)

One Last Dance stars the late Patrick Swayze as Travis MacPhearson and his real-life wife, Lisa Niemi, as Chrissa Lindh.

Three former stars of a New York dance company, including Travis, Chrissa and Max, played by George De La Pena, want to save the company after the artistic director dies. Each of the three have wounds from the past and are finding it difficult to get past those.

This is their chance to discover a dream lost. They have the chance to fulfill this dream with a dance never performed at an upcoming benefit. They also have the chance to mend the wounds and disclose secrets that have come between them.

One Last Dance is a good movie, although I found it a bit slow in the beginning. The dance Swayze and Niemi perform together near the end of the movie makes the movie worth watching. The dance is absolutely captivating in both romance and artistry.

The Lucky Ones (2008)

Fred Cheaver, played by Tim Robbins, is returning home from military service. He is now retired and looking forward to seeing his wife and son.

T.K. Poole, played by Michael Pena and Colee Dunn, played by Rachel McAdams are also United States army soldiers who are returning home on leave. Colee’s boyfriend was a soldier who was killed while saving her life. She plans to visit his family and give them a guitar her boyfriend said was part of his family. T.K. has a fiancé, but is concerned about having impotency problems. He’s even thinking of finding a prostitute to help him out.

The three of these soldiers meet up when their flights are canceled. They rent a car and drive off to their first destination, Fred’s home. It’s obvious Fred’s wife isn’t as happy to see him as Fred is to see her. He’s awestruck when she tells him she wants a divorce.

Fred’s son is ecstatic to see his dad and tells him the great news that he’s been accepted at Stanford University. Unfortunately, Fred needs to come up with an additional $20,000 over the scholarship for his son to secure his position at Stanford.

Colee meets her boyfriend’s parents. They are a quiet couple, but invite Colee to stay with them while she’s on leave. She gets a painful surprise that helps her make the choice not to stay.

Each of the three characters has plans, but none of them go quite the way they wanted. The Lucky Ones is a rather slow moving film, but the characters capture your attention. Throughout the movie, the characters are a strong support for each other. There is a comedic aspect, but I wouldn’t classify this as a true comedy.

City of Joy (1992)

Max Lowe, played by Patrick Swayze, is an American doctor. He is longing for a deeper meaning in his life. He travels to Calcutta, India in hopes of fulfilling this longing.

Max meets Hazari Pal, played by Om Puri. Hazari and his family are unable to repay a loan. Their property is auctioned off and they are left homeless. They land in Calcutta, hoping to start a new life. Unfortunately, a con man who posed as their landlord, took all their money.

Hazari and Max meet in Calcutta and they form a friendship, along with a volunteer clinic worker named Joan, played by Pauline Collins. Max helps Pauline to open a new clinic in hopes of helping the poor residents of this foreign land.

Max is determined to change the lives of people in this poverty-stricken area. In the process, he sees his life in a new way.

City of Joy is an excellent and moving film. If you are a fan of the late Patrick Swayze, you’ll enjoy his superb acting in this movie.

The Scarlet Letter (1995)

I missed the Scarlet Letter when it was released in 1995, but recently rented it on DVD. The movie is set in the 1600’s and is loosely based on a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Demi Moore stars as Hester Prynne and Robert Duvall plays her husband, Roger. Hester is a strong and passionate woman, although there is a longing in her eyes. She arrives while her husband is away, in a colony hoping to find freedom without fear. She finds more than she bargained for.

Hester meets Reverend Dimmesdale, played by Gary Oldman, as her carriage gets stuck in the woods. She later listened to one of his sermons and was immediately drawn to his emotion and passion.

Word gets to Hester that her husband has died. By now her heart belonged to Reverend Dimmesdale, as his love for her is mutual. Their love created a baby girl, named Pearl. The townspeople persecuted Hester for having a baby out of wedlock, but she refused to disclose who the father was. She is forced to wear a scarlet letter A, for adulteress, in public as proof and humiliation for her sin.

To Hester’s surprise her husband is not dead. He returns to find she has a little girl, one that is not his own.

The acting in this movie is impressive. The runtime of 135 minutes is longer than the usual movie, but worth the watch.

We Own the Night (2007)

We Own the Night is a crime thriller, nominated for 5 awards and released in 2007. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Bobby Green, a New York nightclub manager. There are drug dealers in the mix, but Bobby overlooks this. This is a huge deal because Bobby has forsaken his family whose focus is in law enforcement.

Bobby’s lifestyle is different from his family in all ways, including the life he lives with his girlfriend, Amada, played by Eva Mendes.

Abandoning his family, even to the point of changing his name, Bobby has to make a choice when his father, Burt Grusinsky, played by Robert Duvall and his brother, Joseph Grusinsky, played by Mark Wahlberg, take action on the drug scene within the club.

When family is on opposite forces, can loyalty to each other surpass their differences? You’ll have to watch the movie to find out.

The acting in We Own the Night is excellent, but I’m not surprised due to the cast. The film received mixed reviews, as most films do. This is a movie worth seeing, but it won’t necessarily knock your socks off.

Obsessed (2009)

Obsessed is a 2009 crime/drama film rated PG-13, directed by Steve Shill.

Sharon, played by Beyonce Knowles, and Derek Charles, played by Idris Elba, are a happy couple with a son. Derek gets a promotion, which is a good thing, but in the process meets Lisa, a temporary employee, played by Ali Larter.

Lisa is a seemingly intelligent and very attractive woman. She appears competent at her job, but little by little she begins to get creepy. She finds ways to be around Derek and fantasizes that he actually likes her—even loves her and wants to be with her. At first Derek seems to think she’s just flirting, but things get way out of hand.

The movie Obsessed, is true to its title, as Lisa’s fascination with Derek is obsession to the point of dangerous. Derek confronts Sharon about Lisa’s obsession and she is hesitant to believe he is innocent. In the end, she goes after Lisa on a fierce rampage between the two of them.

Obsession is a good movie that will capture your attention, although I felt Beyonce’s acting was a bit forced and lacking.

In the Electric Mist Movie Review

Tommy Lee Jones portrays a detective that is thrown into a series of strange events. He tries to discover who killed a man some 40 years earlier that he was witness too. A serial killer was killing young ladies in the area and other areas close by. Were the two connected? What was happening?

Tommy Lee Jones did a great job at trying to piece everything together in this movie. He even had strange encounters with the spirit of a Confederate soldier!

I found this movie to be a little slow at the beginning. However, it got better as it progressed. There were points that I was a bit confused because the plot was rather complicated.

Could I figure out who was committing the serial killings? No. I was completely surprised when this part of the movie was revealed.

The run time on this movie is 112 minutes. You will enjoy it tremendously.

What Dreams May Come Review

The movie, What Dreams May Come, is one of my favorites for movies. The movie, What Dreams May Come, has some incredible graphics in it. That is one of the things that I like so much about it. You will be amazed at how well the graphics and putting things together is done. It is so realistic, even though you know it’s not.

In this movie, Robin Williams plays the part of Chris Nielsen. He makes a journey that is guided by Cuba Gooding Jr., who plays the part of Albert Lewis. It is through this journey, Chris tries to save his wife from the after-life destination after she committed suicide.

You can learn alot about your own values, morals and even theological beliefs from the movie, What Dreams May Come. It is in this movie that many of my ideas were actually challenged.

Yet, if you just want to kick back and relax, What Dreams May Come is also good for that as well. You don’t have to literally sit back and think about all of it. It’s very entertaining and enjoyable just as a movie.

What Dreams May Come is 113 minutes and is rated PG-13 because of the death theme and some graphic images.

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