{"id":2543,"date":"2013-03-24T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T16:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2016-10-10T19:58:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T02:58:59","slug":"10-great-family-movies-you-and-your-kids-probably-havent-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/10-great-family-movies-you-and-your-kids-probably-havent-seen","title":{"rendered":"10 Great Family Movies You and Your Kids Probably Haven&#8217;t Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kaye.jpg\" alt=\"The Court Jester\" width=\"500\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kaye.jpg 500w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kaye-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kaye-391x300.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Catholic film critic Steven Greydanus gives his list of ten movies kids probably haven&#8217;t seen that are well worth their (and your) time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kids today are lucky if they know\u00a0the likes of\u00a0<em>The Wizard of Oz,<\/em>\u00a0<em>The Song of Bernadette<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Singin\u2019 in the Rain<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Sound of Music<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Babe<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The Iron Giant<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of good stuff there (though older movies may require adult mediation to help kids adjust to the slower rhythms of the Golden Age). But what\u2019s\u00a0really\u00a0off the beaten path for kids today? What have most kids not only not seen, but not even heard of?<\/p>\n<p>Of the 10 films highlighted below (with other recommendations thrown in), I can almost promise that at least nine will be brand-new to all but the most film-savvy or fortunate kids\u2014and all are worthwhile for grown-ups, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are a few of the films he mentions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\"><em>The Court Jester<\/em> &#8211; I second this recommendation&#8211;a terrific film starring Danny Kaye<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>The Story of Weeping Camel<\/em>&#8211;another great unsung film<\/li>\n<li><em>The Kid Brother<\/em>&#8211;slapstick silent comedy starring Harold Lloyd that rivals Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the whole list, along with Steven&#8217;s commentary, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicdigest.com\/articles\/food_fun\/film_television\/2013\/03-12\/neglected-family-fare\">Neglected Family Fare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And as a teaser, enjoy this clip from The Court Jester:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Pellet with the Poison&#039;s in the Vessel with the Pestle - The Court (7\/9) Movie CLIP (1956) HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TJ9f2rnjB84?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic film critic Steven Greydanus gives his list of ten movies kids probably haven&#8217;t seen that are well worth their (and your) time: Kids today are lucky if they know\u00a0the likes of\u00a0The Wizard of Oz,\u00a0The Song of Bernadette,\u00a0Singin\u2019 in the Rain,\u00a0The Sound of Music,\u00a0The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,\u00a0Babe\u00a0and\u00a0The Iron Giant. Lots of good stuff there (though older movies may require adult mediation to help kids adjust to the slower rhythms of the Golden Age). But what\u2019s\u00a0really\u00a0off the beaten path for kids today? What have most kids&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[416,420,415,417,419,418],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-movies","tag-danny-kaye","tag-harold-lloyd","tag-steven-greydanus","tag-the-court-jester","tag-the-kid-brother","tag-the-story-of-weeping-camel","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kaye.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-F1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3594,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/3594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}