Eight youthful competitors, sponsored by their hometown newspapers, travel with their families to Washington, D.C., to compete in the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Now in the national spotlight and under heavy pressure to perform from parents, teachers and their audience, the children struggle to advance toward the championship -- and its accompanying scholarships and cash prizes -- while approaching competitive spelling with the focus and intensity of Olympic athletes.

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Filmmaker Jeff Blitz follows eight children to the finals of a spelling bee in Washington, D.C.

Spellbound

Kevin McCallister (Mike Weinberg) is upset that his parents got divorced. Worse yet, things are heating up between his father Peter (Jason Beghe) and his love interest, Natalie (Joanna Going). Forced to choose where to celebrate Christmas, Kevin begrudgingly decides to go to Natalie's mansion, where the guests include a foreign royal family. Kevin schemes to reunite his estranged parents and -- after Marv Merchants (French Stewart) reappears -- he struggles to protect a prince from abduction.

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Kevin (Mike Weinberg) tries to reunite his separated parents.

Home Alone 4

Amiable slackers Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos (Joss Ackland), a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper (William Sadler) to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.

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Grim Reaper (William Sadler) helps dopes (Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter) stop their evil robot twins.

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Dr. John Dolittle lives in solitude behind the high walls of his lush manor in 19th-century England. His only companionship comes from an array of exotic animals that he speaks to on a daily basis. But when young Queen Victoria becomes gravely ill, the eccentric doctor and his furry friends embark on an epic adventure to a mythical island to find the cure.

Dr. John Dolittle and an array of exotic animals embark on an epic adventure to a mythical island.

Dolittle

Billionaire and aviation tycoon Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a successful public figure: a director of big-budget Hollywood films such as "Hell's Angels," a passionate lover of Hollywood leading ladies Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett) and Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale), and an aviation pioneer who helps build TWA into a major airline. But in private, Hughes remains tormented, suffering from paralyzing phobias and depression. The higher he rises, the farther has to fall.

Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) produces movies and flies airplanes.

The Aviator

With the nation embroiled in still another year with the high death count of Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln brings the full measure of his passion, humanity and political skill to what would become his defining legacy: to end the war and permanently abolish slavery through the 13th Amendment. Having great courage, acumen and moral fortitude, Lincoln pushes forward to compel the nation, and those in government who oppose him, to aim toward a greater good for all mankind.

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In his final months, Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) takes steps to ensure the end of slavery forever.

Lincoln

Volcanologist Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) and Mayor Rachel Wando (Linda Hamilton), finally convince the unbelieving populace that the big one is about to hit and that they need to evacuate immediately, only to discover her two children have gone up the mountain to get their grandmother. With Earth's clock racing against them, they must rescue the kids and grandma before the volcano explodes in a fury of flame and ash a million times more powerful than an atomic bomb.

Volcanologist (Pierce Brosnan) and friend (Linda Hamilton) flee a deadly eruption.

Dante's Peak

Part 1

A 12-year-old becomes an environmental activist; the impact of warming temperatures and pollution on fish; the impact of climate change on species like the mosquito and the giant crab; readings by Tina Fey, Jeffrey Wright and Liam Neeson.

A 12-year-old becomes an environmental activist; the impact of climate change.

Saving My Tomorrow

Part 2

The recovery of the bald eagle from near-extinction provides a lesson on how conservation can reverse environmental damage; an environmental activism group for children spreads awareness; weather extremes; protecting newly hatched sea turtles.

The recovery of the bald eagle from near-extinction provides a lesson on conservation.

When Babe accidentally puts farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell) in traction, the debtors come looking for their payments. In order to pay their debt, Mrs. Hoggett (Magda Szubanski) sends Babe off across the ocean to the city to demonstrate his talents as a sheep herder. Along with his friends, Babe meets a lot of new friends and gets into new adventures.

Farmer's (James Cromwell) wife (Magda Szubanski), pig detained. Live action/animatronics.

Babe: Pig in the City

Unleashed: Spring/Primavera

An energetic dog and a mellow cat teach vocabulary in English and Spanish.

El Perro y el Gato

A talking dog and an orphan (Kaitlyn Maher) must save Christmas after old Saint Nick (Richard Riehle) loses his memory.

A talking dog and an orphan (Kaitlyn Maher) must save Christmas.

The Search for Santa Paws

When their string magnate father, Rudolf Smuntz, dies, brothers Ernie (Nathan Lane) and Lars (Lee Evans) move into his decrepit mansion. Struggling to keep a promise to never sell the now unprofitable string factory, the brothers decide that restoring the house, the last built by a famous architect, could bring them a great deal of money. But during their restoration attempts, Ernie and Lars are continually frustrated by a malicious mouse that keeps destroying their efforts.

Brothers (Nathan Lane, Lee Evans) inherit a mansion occupied by a rodent.

Mouse Hunt

Scrat's continuous pursuit of an infernal acorn has world-changing consequences for Manny (Ray Romano), Sid (John Alberto Leguizamo) and Diego (Denis Leary) when the continents split apart. The continental crack-up separates Manny and his friends from the rest of the herd, including Manny's mate, Ellie (Jennifer Lopez) and rebellious daughter Peaches (Keke Palmer). The pals are desperate to return home, but a pirate (Peter Dinklage) and his ragtag crew stand in their way.

Scrat's pursuit of an infernal acorn has world-changing consequences for Manny, Diego and Sid.

Ice Age: Continental Drift

Gentle farmer Arthur Hoggett (James Cromwell) wins a piglet named Babe (Christine Cavanaugh) at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate as Christmas dinner when Farmer Hoggett decides to show him at the next fair, Babe bonds with motherly border collie Fly (Miriam Margolyes) and discovers that he too can herd sheep. But will the other farm animals, including Fly's jealous husband Rex, accept a pig who doesn't conform to the farm's social hierarchy?

A piglet unexpectedly becomes a champion sheepherder with training from his adoptive canine mother.

Babe

After a construction crew accidentally cracks open a gigantic egg that has imprisoned evil maniac Ivan Ooze (Paul Freeman) for centuries, the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers prepare to face their most formidable foe yet. The vengeful Ooze kills their elderly mentor, Zordon (Nicholas Bell), and with him the source of the Rangers' power. Stunned by Zordon's death, the Rangers struggle to contain Ooze without the help of the Zords, the giant mechanical robots they have grown to depend upon in battle.

The rangers fight an ancient villain bent on destroying mystical mentor Zordon and ruling the world.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

Sandy Ricks (Elijah Wood), a young Chicago teenager, has difficulty adjusting after his parents' divorce. Thinking a vacation will help, his mother sends him to spend the summer with his uncle (Paul Hogan) in the Florida Keys. When he arrives, Ricks has nothing but a bad attitude until a chance encounter with the playful dolphin Flipper and a neighborhood girl (Jessica Wesson) snap him out of it. However, Flipper's life is soon in danger when someone starts dumping toxic waste in the ocean.

Boy (Elijah Wood) adopts dolphin after saving it from toxic-waste dumpers.

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