80s/90s Movies to share with your kids

[theseaword]

My kids were HORRIFIED by home alone.  
They're not big on live action movies, so I've mostly just shown classic Disney.  I watched Mighty Ducks with DS1 when he was starting hockey.  There's some adult stuff in that, but not bad. It took us about 4 nights to fully watch it though. He was pretty bored.

[tipsyturvy]

Cocoon
Batteries Not Included
Wall-E
Babe
Charlotte's Web

[Cher]

I just made a huge list of movies. I'm gonna let my kid pour over it and research them and pick one every few nights.

[Queen Mamadala]

The classics.

Home Alone 1&2
The Goonies
E.T.
Now and Then
My Girl & My Girl 2
A Christmas Story
TMNT
Beetlejuice
Batman & Batman Returns
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Clueless
Dazed and Confused
Edward Scissorhands
Mermaids
Batteries Not Included
Explorers
Pretty in Pink
Lucas
Casper
Gold Diggers
The Mighty Ducks
Little Giants
Free Willy
Matilda
Richie Rich
Blank Check
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Hocus Pocus
Mrs. Doubtfire
Bicentennial Man
Beethoven
Parenthood
The Sandlot
Little Shop of Horrors
The Secret Garden
A Little Princess
Little Women
The Princess Bride
Big
Back to the Future
Star Wars
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
An American Tale
The Addam’s Family
Labyrinth
Willow
The Dark Crystal
Hook
Toys
The NeverEnding Story
Jingle All the Way
Jumanji
Good Burger
Ghostbusters
Little Rascals
Ladybugs
Sidekick
3 Ninjas
Coneheads

My older kids, 15, 13, 10 have seen these at some point. My 5 year old has watched a lot of these. The older two have also watched a lot of 80s/90s coming-of-age/teen, horror and sci-fi. Dd1 is finishing up a film course at her community college and watched a lot of Spielberg films and rewatched Blade Runner.

[tater]

My kid learned the “Tequila” song from Sandlot when he was two, so I might not be the best judge of age appropriate.

[sweptaway]

May 6, 2020 11:07:02 GMT -6 Cher said:

I just made a huge list of movies. I'm gonna let my kid pour over it and research them and pick one every few nights.

This is a great idea

I don't have anything to add, we have watched a lot of the ones listed here, but I am getting good suggestions!

[abs]

Definitely not Back to the Future. I still love it but there are so many inappropriate scenes. They would probably go over a young kid's head, but. Also lots of swearing.

DD is not a movie person really. I showed her Honey I Shrunk the Kids the other day. She was very ambivalent to it. She was only in it for the junk food popcorn. Newsies was a fail. I still want to show her The Mighty Ducks and Home Alone.

[adelbert]

May 6, 2020 10:02:11 GMT -6 Cher said:

I think Heavyweights is prob age appropriate but I'm guessing its not PC anymore.

My kids and I watched it recently and we all loved it. Honestly all the movies from back then aren't totally PC but this wasn't worse than that.

[jmski]

We loved Back to the Future on Disney Plus last night!

[fancynewbeesly]

Back to the Future bored DD. Iron Man terrified her.

[angelashly]

I forgot about Matilda and Harriet the Spy. I think dd would enjoy those

[angelashly]

May 6, 2020 10:03:01 GMT -6 Cher said:

I can't wait for my kid to be able to watch Now and Then. I fucking loved that movie.

OMG I know what Friday's movie night will be

[AmyG]

Small soldiers was an accidental hit.
Youngest Son likes movies he can randomly quote (autism)
So we sometimes hear I hope we dont hit an iceburg from that movie.

[donnameagle]

What streaming service are you finding all of these on?

[angelashly]

May 6, 2020 12:22:10 GMT -6 donnameagle said:

What streaming service are you finding all of these on?

It is a mixture between amazon prime, hulu and netflix for us. I also have showtime, Starz, and HBO.

[elodin]

I yearn for the day DD wants to watch anything but that fucking Barbie Video Hero movie on Netflix.

I keep trying.

Oh man, I put James and the Giant Peach on a while ago and forgot how dark that one is. Whoops.

[SayitaintSnow]

Not mentioned yet: Flight of the Navigator and Cloak and Dagger. And if you go back to the 1960s/70s, all of the Herbie movies and Haley Mills Disney films.

[SayitaintSnow]

Oh god, and UHF for kids who are maybe 10+. I was obsessed.

[jaygee]

May 6, 2020 14:19:59 GMT -6 SayitaintSnow said:

Not mentioned yet: Flight of the Navigator and Cloak and Dagger. And if you go back to the 1960s/70s, all of the Herbie movies and Haley Mills Disney films.

I adored the Herbie movies when I was a kid.

[kittyriot]

I want to share sooooo many of these but I can’t get DD (6) to sit that long. She’s a tv show girl. She also knows it about herself, which is good, but makes me sad when I’m trying to convince her to watch Homeward Bound!

[Sweetjane]

May 6, 2020 9:49:57 GMT -6 mothafuckinteatime said:

The Princess Bride
All of the Star Wars


DS is really into Monty Python and thinks the Holy Grail is hilarious.

Then add Spaceballs to his list.

[adelbert]

H and I are both super excited for when our oldest is old enough to see the best/worst of 80/90s action. Movies like Demolition Man, Die Hard, Predator, Running Man... they're all so violent and often times pretty inappropriate so I know we still have to wait a bit but those are the movies I really can't wait to share with them.

One of my best friends and I used to watch action movies together every weekend that we rented and I associate them with so many good memories. Which is kind of weird.😂

[loony]

May 6, 2020 14:26:04 GMT -6 jaygee said:

May 6, 2020 14:19:59 GMT -6 SayitaintSnow said:

Not mentioned yet: Flight of the Navigator and Cloak and Dagger. And if you go back to the 1960s/70s, all of the Herbie movies and Haley Mills Disney films.

I adored the Herbie movies when I was a kid.

I have a baby picture somewhere in which I am a dead ringer for Buddy Hacket.  Seriously.  I need to get up in to my attic and dig it out.

[mathrun]

My youngest is 7 oldest is 14.

7 year old mostly likes the cartoonish movies like Aladdin, The Lion King, The Muppets Christmas Carol, Casper.

Gremlins was not great for the 7 year old. It scared him a bit, and I forgot some of the plot, which was a bit mature for him.14 year old loved it and Karate Kid and all the baseball movies (Sandlot, Angels in Outfield, Field of Dreams, Rookie of the Year)

Strangely enough they both like Newhart.

The 14 year old also liked the older super hero movies like Spider-Man and the Batman movies fro the 80s/90s. Now he’s binging all the Arrow and the Flash TV shows. I am hoping he likes Empire Records.

[Jesslfar]

The Money Pit
Ace Ventura

[nikkipal]

We watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but we definitely skipped the creepy tunnel part. I still hate that part.

[tipsyturvy]

May 6, 2020 18:15:55 GMT -6 @holliberry said:

Also The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins with Julie Andrews.

Whoever mentioned Drop Dead Fred - might be one of my favorite movies ever.

When my 4 year old grand daughter stays over night (sniff sniff will that ever happen again??) we watch the first half of The Sound of Music, until the intermission.  All the best songs are in the beginning, the second half would be too scary and confusing for her.

Here's a couple more:
Rodgers and Hammerstein Cinderella
Once Upon a Mattress with Tracey Ullman and Carol Burnett

[richard]

DD (7) and I watched Princess Bride the other day and I was a little nervous about the ROUS scene because I remember being scared.

And she was dying laughing at it because it's "a weird man in a rat costume."

Kids these days.

[jaygee]

May 6, 2020 18:17:26 GMT -6 Jesslfar said:

The Money Pit
Ace Ventura

I was thinking about The Money Pit the other day. I absolutely loved that movie when I was younger. Like watched it all the time.

[Jesslfar]

May 6, 2020 21:20:37 GMT -6 jaygee said:

May 6, 2020 18:17:26 GMT -6 Jesslfar said:

The Money Pit
Ace Ventura

I was thinking about The Money Pit the other day. I absolutely loved that movie when I was younger. Like watched it all the time.

Me too. The sex part is minor and the slap stick humor was enough to entertain my 7 years old. She missed any inappropriate part.